Talk:Hidden Messages/@comment-60.50.181.14-20140719083517/@comment-88.113.178.17-20140719132812

Mars and Ares were for most intents and purposes the exact same deity with a different name, save that AFAIK the former was regarded as more respectable by the society at large. (The Greeks considered Ares to govern parts of warfare and battle they weren't too keen on, so he wasn't a popular object of veneration among Hellenes proper; the "barbarian" Thracians to the north conversely apparently rather liked him which is proibably rather revealing in some respects.) And from what I gather both readily enough drew the equation marks between their gods and other variations of the Indo-European pantheon, such as Celtic or Persian (eventually extending to the Indian divinities after nomad invasions pushed the Bactrian Hellenes down into the Indus valley).

Bygone divine taxonomies aside, Olympus Mons is on Mars so that's that.