Bident Jupiter (also known as Jove, Etruscan Tinia), the trident or bident thus represents a forked lightning bolt. In ancient Italy, thunder and lightning were read as signs of divine will, wielded by the sky god Jupiter in three forms or degrees of severity (see "manubia"). The Romans drew on Etruscan traditions for the interpretation of these signs. A tile found at Urbs Salvia in Picenum depicts an unusual composite Jove, "fairly bristling with weapons": a lightning bolt, a bident, and a trident, uniting the realms of sky, earth, and sea, and representing the three degrees of ominous lightning (see also
Epithalamion (poem) their life. He has moved on from the anxiety of every hour. This is the constellation between Cancer and Gemini. "When once the Crab behind his back he sees." The constellation are shifting. In this case, the time is now towards the end of July since the constellation is moving. Spenser likens Elizabeth to Maia, the Goddess of Nursing Mothers. "Like unto Maia, when as Jove her tooke, In Tempe, lying on the flowry gras, Twixt sleepe and wake, after she weary was, With bathing in the Acidalian brooke." Maia was one of the Pleiades, whom Zeus (Jove, also called