Ev Cochrane: Mars the Warrior Hero, Space News

Its 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 crosscultural 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, warriorhero figure, a dragon slayer, the god of war.