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To: decimon

Anatolian god Juppiter?

Sorry, Jupiter was a Roman god. And he could spell it right I imagine.

Unless the writer means Ppluto.Or Ppan.

At any rate it is probably Mithras who was the soldier’s diety and was concerned with bulls.


3 posted on 07/25/2009 7:17:19 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb
Anatolian god Juppiter?

Sorry, Jupiter was a Roman god. And he could spell it right I imagine.

No, the identification is correct (though you're rght, the name is spelled wrong, by our typical English standard). "Jupiter of Doliche" indicates that this god was a local syncretisation of an Anatolian god with Jupiter, in much the same way that Zeus/Jupiter would be syncretised with any other Eastern god. The battle axe symbol probably does indicate some syncretism with Mithraic concepts, though the lack of the Phrygian cap would seem to suggest that this figure is not Mithra himself.

5 posted on 07/25/2009 7:27:37 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: squarebarb
Sorry, Jupiter was a Roman god. And he could spell it right I imagine.

Unless the writer means Ppluto.Or Ppan.

Nitppicking.

7 posted on 07/25/2009 7:30:44 AM PDT by decimon
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