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The Warrior-Hero
Equally mysterious are the global memories of a celestial warrior or hero defeating powers of chaos in ancient times. Remarkably similar memories occur in both the Old World and the New.
In many later cultures the hero looks very much like a human being and his feats are accomplished on a regional landscape. But in the earliest versions of the story, the figure is entirely cosmic, and numerous traditions identify the warrior as a planet, the planet Mars.
Warrior figures associated with the planet Mars include the Egyptian Shu-Anhur, the Babylonian Nergal and Irra, the Greek Ares and the Latin Mars, the Australian Waiungari, and Pawnee Morning Star.
This is the Hercules archetype. Greek astronomers, for example, alternately designated the planet Mars as the warrior Ares or the warrior Hercules.
What is there about the little planet that might have prompted the idea of
a great warrior wielding weapons of thunder, fire, and stone?
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