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Keywords: Jupiter, Hera, Hades, Cronus, Rhea
The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.
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The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.
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One of the Greek gods, has references to the planet Jupiter.
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king of the Greek gods; known as Jupiter to the Romans
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