Ops (Opis: Abundance) Roman Goddess of plenty, of the harvest, and of wealth.
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Ops (Opis: Abundance) Roman Goddess of plenty, of the harvest, and of wealth. Her name refers to the bounty of the Earth and the riches of a plentiful harvest. Surviving evidence suggests to scholars that the people of Rome worshiped Ops as the consort or wife of Consus, the god of storage, or as the cult partner of Saturn, the Roman god of agriculture. Ops was, perhaps, the mother of Juno, Roman goddess of childbirth and queen of the heavens. Ops was honored with Consus in the harvest festivals of August 21 and 25 and in a celebration on December 19. Eventually, Ops took on the characteristics and stories of the Greek goddess Rhea.
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