Opis, when syncretized with Greek mythology, was not only the wife of Saturn, she was his sister and the daughter of Caelus.

Her male complement was a sky god such as Caelus ( Uranus ) or a form of Jupiter.

Caelus or Coelus was a primal god of the sky in Roman myth and theology, iconography, and literature ( compare caelum, the Latin word for " sky " or " the heavens ", hence English " celestial ").

The name of Caelus indicates that he was the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Uranus ( Οὐρανός, Ouranos ), who was of major importance in the theogonies of the Greeks.

According to Cicero and Hyginus, Caelus was the son of Aether and Dies (" Day " or " Daylight ").

Caelus was the father with Hecate of the distinctively Roman god Janus, as well as of Saturn and Ops.

In one tradition, Caelus was the father with Tellus of the Muses, though was this probably a mere translation of Ouranos from a Greek source.

Caelus substituted for Uranus in Latin versions of the myth of Saturn ( Cronus ) castrating his heavenly father, from whose severed genitals, cast upon the sea, the goddess Venus ( Aphrodite ) was born.

As Caelus Nocturnus, he was the god of the night-time, starry sky.

Nocturnus appears in several inscriptions found in Dalmatia and Italy, in the company of other deities who are found also in the cosmological schema of Martianus Capella, based on the Etruscan tradition .< ref > Including CIL 3. 1956 = ILS 4887, 9753, 14243 < sup > 2 </ sup >, CIL 5. 4287 = ILS 4888, as cited and discussed by Mario Torelli, Studies in the Romanization of Italy ( University of Alberta Press, 1995 ), pp. 108 – 109 .</ ref > In the Etruscan discipline of divination, Caelus Nocturnus was placed in the sunless north opposite Sol to represent the polar extremities of the axis ( see cardo ).

The ante-Nicene Christian writer Lactantius routinely uses the Latin theonyms Caelus, Saturn, and Jupiter to refer to the three divine hypostases of the Neoplatonic school of Plotinus: the First God ( Caelus ), Intellect ( Saturn ), and Soul, son of the Intelligible ( Jupiter ).

As a sky god, he became identified with Jupiter, as indicated by an inscription that reads Optimus Maximus Caelus Aeternus Iup < pi > ter.

In his work on the cosmological systems of antiquity, the Dutch Renaissance humanist Gerardus Vossius deals extensively with Caelus and his duality as both a god and a place that the other gods inhabit.

Although Caelus is not known to have had a cult at Rome, not all scholars consider him a Greek import given a Latin name ; he has been associated with Summanus, the god of nocturnal thunder, as " purely Roman.

Caelus begins to appear regularly in Augustan art and in connection with the cult of Mithras during the Imperial era.

Caelus and Dies were in this tradition the parents of Mercury.

Varro says that the Greeks call Caelum ( or Caelus ) " Olympus.

It is generally though not universally agreed that Caelus is depicted on the cuirass of the Augustus of Prima Porta, at the very top above the four horses of the Sun god's quadriga.

) On an altar of the Lares now held by the Vatican, Caelus in his chariot appears along with Apollo-Sol above the figure of Augustus.

The name Caelus occurs in dedicatory inscriptions in connection to the cult of Mithras.

The Mithraic deity Caelus is sometimes depicted allegorically as an eagle bending over the sphere of heaven marked with symbols of the planets or the zodiac.

A form of Ahura-Mazda is invoked in Latin as Caelus Aeternus Iupiter.

The walls of some mithrea feature allegorical depictions of the cosmos with Oceanus and Caelus.

The mithraeum of Dieburg represents the tripartite world with Caelus, Oceanus, and Tellus below Phaeton-Heliodromus.

Some Roman writers used Caelus or Caelum as a way to express the monotheistic god of Judaism.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

There was also a dog, a dingo dog.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.