Talk:Iuna Pythia/@comment-36836718-20190220130347/@comment-36277500-20190318203821

I don't know either. Juno was patron of marriage and wives, but also women at all. And according to Roman/Greek/Egyptian theology, she was more appropriate to be compared to Isis than Ceres. Jupiter and Juno were celestial king and queen, such as Osiris and Isis.

To mess with it even more, early ancient Romans didn't identify their gods with Greek gods - it happened later. Early Roman gods didn't have solidified identity, and their statues had inscriptions like "whether are you god or a goddess, I worship you".

Also: I never spotted name Iuna in literature, but there existed Roman names like Iunius/Junius and Iunia/Junia, derived from Lucius Junius Brutus (one of Roman Republic's founders in 6th century BC, and ancestor of Marcus Junius Brutus - Caesar's illegitimate son and killer).

Strange, huh?