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	Dis Pater: the Gaulish supreme deity, also known as Donn, In Dagda (Divine Father)
		Dis Pater probably should not be included in this list per se for the Dis Pater is actually to Roman god of the underworld and the dead, equated with but separate from the Greek Pluto.
		The associated imagery reveals a goddess posessing all the emblems of a Celtic mother deity; though her consort holds a scroll that may be the ‘Book of Life’, symbolic of the passage from youth to old age.
		On a stele from Varhély, Rumania Dis Pater is depictad with a three-headed canid; the native equivalent to Cerberus, guardian of the netherworld.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_d/dis_pater.html (592 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Dis Pater, or Dispater, was a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter.
		Dis is contracted from the Latin dives ("rich"), and pater is Latin for "father", the literal meaning of Dis Pater being "Wealthy Father" or "Father of Riches".
		When Dis Pater was in the underworld, only oaths and curses could reach him, and people invoked him by striking the earth with their hands.
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	tScholars.com \| Dis Pater (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dis Pater, or Dispater, was a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter.
		Dis is contracted from the Latin dives ("rich"), and pater is Latin for "father", the literal meaning of Dis Pater being "Wealthy Father" or "Father of Riches".
		In being conflated with Pluto, Dis Pater took on some of the Greek mythological attributes of Pluto/Hades, being one of the three sons of Saturn (Greek: Cronus) and Ops (Greek: Rhea), along with Jupiter and Neptune.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Dis_Pater (731 words)

	SUCELLOS - Il dio col mazzuolo
		I due elementi di dio progenitore e dio dei morti non sono tra loro in disaccordo: si tratta del mitologema, ben conosciuto ai miti indoeuropei, del primo nato e primo morto.
		Taranis / Dis pater presso di loro viene placato in questo modo: uomini vengono bruciati vivi in tini di legno [...].
		Abbiamo riso ai vostri giochi di mezzogiorno, quando Dis Pater, il fratello di Iuppiter, portava via, col martello in pugno, le spoglie dei gladiatori uccisi; e quando Mercurius, il cappello alato in testa, provava il caduceo arroventato sui corpi esanimi, distinguendo quelli che erano davvero senza vita da quelli che simulavano la morte.
	www.bifrost.it /CELTI/2.Divinitagalliche/04-Sucellos.html (4361 words)

	Dis Pater
		The Gauls regarded Dis Pater as their ancestor.
		The name is a contraction of the Latin Dives, "the wealthy", Dives Pater, "the wealthy father", or "Fater Wealth".
		Article "Dis Pater" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 28 January 2002 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/dis_pater.html (78 words)

	MySpace.com - Dis Pater - Koenigsberg - Gothic / Metal - www.myspace.com/dispaterband
		Also known to the Romans as Orcus, he was believed to be the brother of Jupiter and was greatly feared.
		Besides been a Roman god, DIS PATER is a bands from Russia that plays sad and melancholic music.
		The lyrics, which are written in Russian have a very deep sense and greatly combine with heavy but melodic music of the band that continues the very best traditions of death-doom school.
	www.myspace.com /dispaterband (914 words)

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