Nergal · Ares · Mars · Yinghuo

Mars المريخ

Every people looked at the same red light and gave it a name.

The Ludovisi Ares, a weary god of war
The god
Mars, seen as a full iron disk
The world
A rover wheel on the dust of Mars
The ground
Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our Earthly hopes and fears. Carl Sagan