Religious syncretism correspondence varied: Jupiter makes perhaps a better match for Zeus than the rural huntress Diana does for the feared Artemis. Ares does not quite match Mars. The Romans physically imported the Anatolian goddess Cybele into Rome from her Anatolian cult-center Pessinos in the form of her original aniconic archaic stone idol; they identified her as "Magna Mater" and gave her a matronly, iconic image developed in Hellenistic Pergamum. Likewise, when the Romans encountered Celts and Germanic peoples, they mingled these peoples' gods with their own, creating Sulis Minerva, Apollo Sucellos (Apollo the Good Smiter) and Mars Thingsus (Mars of the
Minerva Berlin Minerva Berlin Minerva 93 Berlin is a German association football club from the district of Moabit in the city of Berlin. The club was established 10 May 1893 as "Berliner Fußball Club Minerva" taking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom. A merger with "Wilmersdorfer FC Frühling" in 1896 led to the club taking on the name "Sport-Club Minerva 93 Berlin". In 1900, the team played a single season as part of the Freie Berliner Fußballvereinigung (FBF), one of several early competing top tier leagues in Berlin. They were joined in 1904 by "Berolina Moabit" – also part of