Bared-Sword War-God (Sarmatian Ares)

Sarmatian war-god worshipped as a sword; the brief explicitly asks to note the Sarmatian sword-cult. Native theonym unrecorded (term carries the Latin gladius/Mars of Ammianus). Distinct tradition tag 'Sarmatian'.

Domains

• war

Powers

• is worshipped as a sword fixed in the earth

Epithets

• the planted sword

Relations

• interpretatio: Mars
• equated with: Sword-God of War (Scythian Ares)

Sources

• Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.2.23
• 'Sarmatian Religion,' Encyclopedia of Religion (M. Eliade, ed.); D.S. Raevskiy (1977)