Ops’s Family Tree

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Family

• Saturn(spouse),Ceres(child),Juno(child),Jupiter(child),Neptune(child),Pluto(child),Vesta(child)— Marriage

  Saturn devoured each of his children at birth, but Ops hid the infant Jupiter on Crete, feeding Saturn a swaddled stone instead. Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta were all born to this divine pair.

• Caelus(parent),Terra(parent),Saturn(sibling)— Marriage

  Caelus and Terra, Sky and Earth joined in the first marriage, bore the elder gods — Saturn, Ops, Coeus, Phoebe, Hyperion, Theia, and their kin — until Saturn castrated his father and seized dominion over the cosmos.

Has aspect

• Magna Mater

  Roman cult identified Ops with Magna Mater, merging the ancient Italian goddess of stored harvest with the Phrygian Great Mother into a single figure of earth's abundance and maternal power.

Equivalent to

• Rhea(Greek)

  Rhea and Ops are the Greek and Roman names for the same Titan mother who tricked her child-devouring husband by swaddling a stone in place of their youngest son.