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 also the father of one of the three forms of Jupiter, the other two fathers being Aether and Saturn.

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 ).

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.

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.

) 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 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.

In a Mithraic context he is associated with Cautes and can appear as Caelus Aeternus (" Eternal Sky ").

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.

Juvenal identifies the Jewish god with Caelus as the highest heaven ( summum caelum ), saying that Jews worship the numen of Caelus ; Petronius uses similar language.

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

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 ).

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.

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

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

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His father was a constant visitor.