Caelus

Also known as Caelum, Coelus

thumb|upright|Mithraic altar (3rd-century AD) showing Caelus flanked by allegories of the Seasons (Carnuntum|Museum Carnuntinum, Lower Austria)

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Deity.type: Roman
Deity.name: Caelus
Deity.god_of: God of the Sky
Deity.parents: Aether and Dies
Deity.children: Mercury, Janus, Saturn, Ops
Deity.gender: Male
Deity.Greek_equivalent: Uranus

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Identity
Genealogy
Myth and allegory
In art
Nocturnus and the ''templum''
Mithraic syncretism
Jewish syncretism
References
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thumb|upright|Mithraic altar (3rd-century AD) showing Caelus flanked by allegories of the Seasons (Carnuntum|Museum Carnuntinum, Lower Austria)

Caelus or Coelus (; ) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare 'sky', 'heaven', whence English celestial). The deity's name usually appears in masculine grammatical form when he is conceived of as a male generative force.