Mars

Also called Mars Lucetius, Mars Leucetius, Celtic Mars.

The Roman name that swallowed more than sixty Celtic gods, leaving their own names lost and their functions showing through as farming and healing.

Tradition: Celtic mythology (general)
Region: Europe (place of origin)
Trait family: The Ward-Holders
Symbols: godsMars

Near this figure

Cheiron Healing
Cliodna Healing
Coventina Healing
Excalibur Healing
Kamaitachi Healing
Arzshenk Guardianship

and 16 more

Bannik Guardianship
Bisan Guardianship
Briareos Guardianship
Campe Guardianship
Colt Pixy Guardianship
Coquena Guardianship
Hiisi Guardianship
Kirkegrim Guardianship
Kishibojin Guardianship
Ma Guardianship
Mehen Guardianship
Mucalinda Guardianship
Orthos Guardianship
Pixiu Guardianship
Pytho Guardianship
Simargl Guardianship

Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

gods is Gods are worshipped powers governing natural or abstract domains, represented as human, animal, vegetal, or formless; Mesoamerican categories resist simple European equivalence.
why
The Roman name that swallowed more than sixty Celtic gods, leaving their own names lost and their functions showing through as farming and healing.
Mars is Mars denotes active, martial passion, courage, fire, iron, and the south; Celtic usage also overlays numerous local agricultural and war divinities.
why
The Mars of this entry is not the Roman god himself but what happened to Celtic gods when Rome arrived among them.

Traits

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Defensive powers

Guardianship
why
Mars in Rome began as a farming god first and a war god later, on the logic that fields are worth nothing if nobody will fight for them — and the Celtic material suggests the same double duty in a number of places, with inscriptions and sculpture connecting the local Mars to farming as much as to fighting.

Utility powers

Healing
why
At Bath, among the healing springs, he appears as Mars Lucetius, Mars of light, and elsewhere as a healing power: the warrior turned to fighting off disease rather than armies.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.