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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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# Ares
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**Domain**: War, violence, bloodlust
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**Symbol**: Spear, helmet, dog, vulture
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**Roman Equivalent**: [Mars](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology/mars)
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## Overview
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Ares is the god of war, representing its violent, physical, and chaotic dimensions. Where [Athena](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/athena) governs strategy and just conflict, Ares embodies the brutality and bloodlust of the battlefield — slaughter for its own sake. Son of [Zeus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/zeus) and [Hera](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hera), he is among the least loved of the Olympians, feared by mortals and openly scorned by the other gods; Zeus himself tells him in the *Iliad* that he is the most hateful of all his children.
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His sacred animals are the dog and the vulture, creatures drawn to the carnage of war. He is attended by his sons Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Terror) and the goddess Eris (Strife). Despite his ferocity, Ares is curiously easy to defeat in myth: he is wounded by mortals, outmaneuvered by his half-sister Athena, and humiliated by the cleverness of those around him — the poets' verdict that raw violence rarely wins.
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## Key Myths
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**The affair with Aphrodite.** Ares carried on a famous affair with [Aphrodite](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/aphrodite) while she was married to [Hephaestus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hephaestus) the smith. Warned by the sun-god Helios, Hephaestus forged a net of chains so fine as to be invisible and draped it over the marriage bed. When the lovers lay down together they were caught fast, and Hephaestus summoned the other gods to laugh at the trapped pair — a humiliation Ares never lived down. Their union produced several children, including Harmonia and, in some traditions, the love-god Eros.
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**Wounded at Troy.** In the *Iliad* Ares fights for the Trojans, but Athena guides the spear of the mortal hero Diomedes into the war-god's belly. Ares bellows like ten thousand men and flees back to Olympus to complain to Zeus, who rebuffs him coldly — the strategist's intelligence besting the brute's strength on the open field.
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**The trial on the Areopagus.** When Ares killed Halirrhothius, a son of Poseidon, for assaulting his daughter, he was tried by the other gods on the hill in Athens that took his name — the Areopagus. Acquitted, the episode became the mythic origin of the first homicide court, a rare moment of Ares standing for justice rather than slaughter.
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## Related
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- [Aphrodite](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/aphrodite) - Lover
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- [Hephaestus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hephaestus) - The cuckolded husband who trapped him
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- [Athena](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/athena) - Strategic war versus brute war
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- [Zeus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/zeus) - Father
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- [Hera](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hera) - Mother
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- [The Tower](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/the-tower) - The Mars-ruled Major Arcana card of violent, sudden destruction
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- [Greek Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology)
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