Caelus
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thumb|upright|Mithraic altar (3rd-century AD) showing Caelus flanked by allegories of the Seasons (Carnuntum|Museum Carnuntinum, Lower Austria)
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Roman
- Deity.name
- Caelus
- Deity.god_of
- God of the Sky
- Deity.parents
- Aether and Dies
- Deity.children
- Mercury, Janus, Saturn, Ops
- Deity.gender
- Male
- Deity.Greek_equivalent
- Uranus
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Identity
- Genealogy
- Myth and allegory
- In art
- Nocturnus and the ''templum''
- Mithraic syncretism
- Jewish syncretism
- References
- Bibliography
thumb|upright|Mithraic altar (3rd-century AD) showing Caelus flanked by allegories of the Seasons (Carnuntum|Museum Carnuntinum, Lower Austria)
Caelus or Coelus (; ) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare 'sky', 'heaven', whence English celestial). The deity's name usually appears in masculine grammatical form when he is conceived of as a male generative force.
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