Yareah Magazine

                                                                              (Bilingual article)                                         Rodrigo Martin 

Ares-Marte era el dios de la guerra de la antigüedad de las religiones politeístas griega y romana. Sin embargo, los escritores y expertos en mitología no le han dado una mínima importancia.

A los atenienses no les gustaba este dios(aunque luego le dedicarán el Areópago) pero sí a sus “compadres” espartanos(tenían una estatua encadenada de él para que la victoria nunca se fuere), a los tebanos, tracios, escitas, romanos e incluso hunos: véase mito de la espada de Marte. Pero, claro, los atenienses han sido los más importantes con su adoradísima Atenea (en realidad una deidad cuas

Este dios fue bastante adorado entre los barbaros como una espada clavada en el suelo; como un barbudo general por los romanos y como un joven guerrero por los griegos. En realidad tiene bastantes más atributos además de la guerra tales como fertilidad masculina, primavera (era cuando se  peleaba) y, junto con Ceres y Crono, también fue protector de los cultivos en Roma, además de padre de sinfín de héroes y de pueblos.

In old Greek and Roman polytheist religions, Ares- Mars was the God of War. Athenians did not love him (although their Areopagus was consecrated to this god) but their Spartan “friends” had a tied sculpture of Ares to avoid Victory to run away and similar did Thebans, Thracians, Scythes, Romans and even Huns (do not forget the myth about Mars’ sword).

However, current writers and historians have practically ignored Ares due to their admiration for Athenians and, tireless, they have written about Athena (a local goddess) and their intricate language… well, I will stop.

Ares was a young warrior for Greek people, a bearded general for Roman ones and a sword, stuck in the floor, for Barbarians. He had very many attributes (not only the war): Spring (it was the time for fighting), masculine fertility, and, the same as Ceres and Chronos, he was God of Agriculture. He was also the father of numerous heroes and places.

In Rome, he was the father of Romulus and Remo, their founders. Therefore, one the most important Gods, and he was honoured with colossal temples (remember Julius Caesar’s project).

His origins are clearly Aqueans, since he was a masculine god in front of the Southern goddess (the White Goddess). His animals were the dog and the vulture, important animals for Northern tribes where dogs helped with the livestock and with the hunting and vultures devoured warriors’ corpses raising them to the Heavens.

Definitely and also noticing his vigor and masculinity, Ares was one of the five important gods which characterized these nomad patriarchal societies: Heaven, Earth, Hell, War and Feminity.

Yes, Ares-Mars was much more important that Homer or Athens said and in Roman times, who was ignored, it was their beloved Athena… ja, ja, ja…

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Rodrigo Martín

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