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Sky and weather gods

Jupiter (god)Rome's high priest of Jupiter could not swear an oath. He also could not ride a horse or touch raw meat.
ThorIn one poem, the thunder god Thor dresses as a bride to win back his stolen hammer.
FreyrThe Norse god Freyr gave away the one sword that could have saved him. He traded it to win a giantess as his wife.
HorusHorus won the throne of Egypt with a boat made of painted wood. His rival Set sailed one of real stone, and it sank.
PoseidonThe oldest records of Poseidon do not show a sea god at all. Bronze Age tablets from Pylos call him "earth shaker."
Set (deity)The Egyptian god Set killed his brother, yet guarded the sun god's boat. He later became a symbol of evil.
DagrDagr is the Old Norse word for day, and in Norse mythology it is also the name of a god who gives daylight a face and a family. In the Poetic Edda, Odin travels in disguise under the name Gagnráðr and puts a question to the jötunn…
NjörðrThe Norse god Njörðr married Skaði, but they could not stand each other's homes.
Uranus (mythology)In Greek myth, Cronus ambushed his father Uranus, the sky, with a sickle. His mother Gaia, the Earth, had made it.
RaEvery night, the serpent Apophis attacked the boat of the Egyptian sun god Ra. Hymns and spells helped him win.