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Jupiter Tonans

One of the main attributes of Jupiter (Zeus) was as a thunder god.
Jupiter Tonans

Jupiter Tonans

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Jupiter/Zeus sometimes takes on the characteristics of a supreme deity. In Suppliants, of Aeschylus, Zeus is described as:
"king of kings, of the happy most happy, of the perfect most perfect power, blessed Zeus"
Sup. 522.
Zeus is also described by Aeschylus with the following attributes:
  • the universal father
  • father of gods and men
  • the universal cause
  • the all-seer and all-doer
  • the all-wise and all-controlling
  • the just and the executor of justice
  • true and incapable of falsehood.

Source: Bibliotheca sacra Volume 16 (1859).

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