#i do a lot of death work in february and march
A question to fellow Roman polytheists, not at all influenced by currently being quite happily snowed-in.
Which deity do you associate with snow?
Looking primarily for UPG reflections, I guess. There’s Jupiter for all manner of storms, of course, but I tend to associate him only with the proper thunder and lightning sort. The rest I put to the Tempestates, whom I consider something like storm nymphs, and the clear-skied winds to the Aurae. But snow is……different.
I associate snow with Proserpina. Even though she’s a spring diety, her absence is what brings the winter winds and therefore snow. It’s difficult to really dig into what Roman diety could be associated with snow since there’s not really any in true Roman tradition. Historically it’s not unlikely they might have attributed the Greek Kione with their snow, but if they did there’s no written record I know of.
This is what’s extra wild to me, because surely after gaining a lot of northernly provinces, they encountered enough snow to have some sort of association. We have stuff about soldiers complaining about snow! Where is the graffiti telling off the gods for it! Curse tablets condemning people to freeze their feet off and have their roofs give under the snow!
