Ev Cochrane: Mars the Warrior-Hero | Space News

It’s perhaps one of the great unresolved yet overlooked mysteries facing academia and science — the extraordinary identities of planets in myth and tradition. Nothing in the familiar ideas about our history can explain the incredible patterns, found in extensive cross-cultural comparison, of words, phrases, imagery and storytelling describing a former age of gods and goddesses, of heroes and monsters. In ancient myth, Mars is identified as a masculine, warrior-hero figure, a dragon slayer, the god of war.