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
Operation Jove 1969, Portuguese listening services captured the information of the passage of an important column with war material, in which Nino Vieira, at the same time the mythical commander of the Southern Front, was displaced, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese forces in Guinea assigned to the Battalion of Parachute Hunters n.12, the mission to intercept the guerrillas. Two parachute companies were transported by plane from Bissau to Aldeia Formosa in the South on 16 November, and from there the men were placed on the ground by helicopter. The ambush was set up on 17 November, with seventy men on a