After one year and five months of balloting, plus seven more weeks of deadlock, the votes divide almost equally among five gods: Jove (Jupiter), Kriste (Christ), Mars, Crite, and Siva.
The original 325 Creed includes anathemas (condemnations) against heretical views on Christ's nature, but not against pagan gods like Jove or Mars.
… Now Cycnus is a swan, and yet he fears to trust the skies and Jove, for he remembers fires, unjustly sent, and therefore shuns the heat that he abhors, and haunts the spacious lakes and pools and streams that quench the fires.
He establishes a vast heavenly kingdom, enslaves spirits, and influences mortal worship through aliases like Dyaus (India), Zeus/Jove (Greece), and Deus (Latin).
He inspires mortal religions, manifesting as Dyaus in Vedic traditions (India), Te-in in China, Sudga in other regions, Jove/Zeus in Greco-Roman mythology, and similar names globally.
And the first ballot gave prominence to the following Gods: Jove, Jupiter, Salenus, Baal, Thor, Gade, Apollo, Juno, Aries, Taurus, Minerva, Rhets, Mithra, Theo, Fragapatti, Atys, Durga, Indra, Neptune, Vulcan, Kriste, Agni, Croesus, Pelides, Huit, Hermes, Thulis, Thammus, Eguptus, Iao, Aph, Saturn, Gitchens, Minos, Maximo, Hecla and Phernes.
For one year and five months the balloting lasted, and at that time the ballot rested nearly equally on five Gods, namely: Jove, Kriste, Mars, Crite and Siva.
When we read that Jove whipped his wife, and threw her son out of the window, the inference is that Jove was a man, and actually did something like the thing described; certainly gods, sublimated spirits, aerial sprites, do not act after this fashion; and it would puzzle the mythmakers to prove that the sun, moon, or stars whipped their wives or flung recalcitrant young men out of windows.
No vassal god, nor of his train am I.Three brothers, deities, from Saturn came,And ancient Rhea, earth's immortal dame;Assigned by lot our triple rule we know;Infernal Pluto sways the shades below:O'er the wide clouds, and o'er the starry plainEthereal Jove extends his high domain;My court beneath the hoary waves I keep,And hush the roaring of the sacred deep.
Jove, with the thunder-bolts in his hand, is duplicated in the Mexican god of thunder, Mixcoatl, who is represented holding a bundle of arrows.
“When Saturn was cast down to shadowy Tartarus, Jove’s rule began; the Silver Age arose, Inferior to gold, yet better than bronze.” (Translation adapted for clarity)
Jove’s rule began: Jove, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Zeus, overthrew his father, Saturnus (equated with Cronus in Greek mythology), and banished him to Tartarus, a dark underworld prison.
Jove’s rule; the Silver Age
“When Saturn was cast down to shadowy Tartarus, Jove’s rule began; the Silver Age arose, Inferior to gold, yet better than bronze.” (Translation adapted for clarity)
This marks the end of Saturnus’ Golden Age, with his overthrow by Jupiter (Jove) signaling a decline into less prosperous times.
“First, from heavenly Olympus, Saturn came, Fleeing Jove’s wrath, exiled from his realm.
“When Saturn was cast down to shadowy Tartarus, Jove’s rule began; the Silver Age arose, Inferior to gold, yet better than bronze.” (Translation adapted for clarity)
This marks the end of Saturnus’ Golden Age, with his overthrow by Jupiter (Jove) signaling a decline into less prosperous times.