Re: APOLLO and ... MARS?

--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:

> ... plagues of mice (smintheus is an ancient Cretan word meaning
> "mouse")

I thought that Greek [sminthos] = "mouse", [Smintheus] = "mouse god".

> An unusual feature of Mars's cult is the war-god's identification
> with a wolf. ...

I thought that Apollo was a gun-god and [Apollon Lykaios] = "Apollo of
light", but when the old Greek word *[ly:ke:] = "light" got disused,
various of its derivatives were thought to relate to [lykos] =
"wolf", and so belief changed.

As regards Mars the war-god, war is destructive and so are wolves.

With [Mars] compare Greek [Are:s], and the Greek verb [marnamai] = "I
fight".