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Maris (mythology)

Maris (or Mariś) was an Etruscan god often depicted as an infant or child and given many epithets, including Mariś Halna, Mariś Husrnana ("Maris the Child") and Mariś Isminthians. He was the son of Hercle, the Etruscan equivalent of Heracles. On two bronze mirrors, Maris appears in scenes depicting an immersion rite to ensure his immortality, possibly connected to stories about the centaur Mares, the ancestor of the Ausones, who underwent a triple death and resurrection.

Some scholars think he influenced Roman conceptions of the god Mars, but this is not universally held.

Māris

Māris is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to:

  • Māris Ārbergs (born 1962), Latvian politician
  • Māris Bičevskis (born 1991), Latvian ice hockey player
  • Māris Bružiks (born 1962), Latvian triple jumper
  • Māris Čaklais (1940–2003), Latvian poet, writer, and journalist
  • Māris Diļevka (born 1992), Latvian ice hockey player
  • Māris Gailis (born 1951), Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
  • Māris Grīnblats (born 1955), Latvian politician
  • Māris Gulbis (born 1985), Latvian basketball player
  • Māris Jass (born 1985), Latvian ice hockey forward
  • Māris Jučers (born 1987), Latvian ice hockey goaltender
  • Māris Krakops (born 1978), Latvian chess Grandmaster
  • Māris Kučinskis (born 1961), Latvian politician
  • Māris Ļaksa (born 1981), Latvian basketball player
  • Māris Liepa (1936–1989), Latvian-Soviet ballet dancer
  • Māris Martinsons (born 1960), Latvian film director, producer and screenwriter
  • Māris Poikāns (born 1962), Latvian bobsledder
  • Māris Purgailis (born 1947), Latvian politician
  • Māris Riekstiņš (born 1963), Latvian politician and diplomat
  • Māris Smirnovs (born 1976) Latvian football defender
  • Māris Štrombergs (born 1987) Latvian professional BMX racer and Olympic gold medalist
  • Māris Urtāns (born 1981), Latvian shot putter
  • Māris Verpakovskis (born 1979), Latvian football forward
  • Māris Ziediņš (born 1978), Latvian ice hockey forward
Maris (bishop)

Maris was a bishop of Chalcedon in the 4th century and a prominent backer of Arianism. He is also notable for confronting the anti-Christian emperor Julian the Apostate in 362 after going blind - in reply to Julian telling him "Thy Galilean God will not heal thy sight." He replied "I thank God for depriving me of the power of beholding thy face."

Maris (given name)

Maris is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "of the sea". It is derived from Stella Maris ("star of the sea"), an epithet for the Virgin Mary. Maris is a feminine given name in the English speaking countries and in Estonia.

Maris (surname)

People with the surname Maris include:

  • Ada Maris (born 1957), Mexican-American actress
  • Albert Branson Maris (1893–1989), United States federal judge
  • Bart Maris, Belgian trumpet player
  • Demetris Maris (born 1979), Greek footballer
  • Ellen van Maris (born 1958), former professional female bodybuilder from the Netherlands
  • Humphrey Maris, physicist and a professor at Brown University
  • Jacob Maris (1837–1899), Dutch painter, brother of Willem and Matthijs
  • Matthijs Maris (1839–1917), Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, brother of Willem and Jacob
  • Merrill De Maris (1898–1948), writer who worked on Disney Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate
  • Mona Maris (1903–1991), Argentine film actress
  • Roger Maris (1934–1985), Major League Baseball player
  • Willem Maris (1844–1910), Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School, brother of Matthijs and Jacob

In legend and fiction:

  • Hector de Maris, Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
  • Nicole Maris, a major character in the 1999 film Drive Me Crazy

Usage examples of "maris".

Anton Mauve and Josef lived in Amsterdam, Jacob and Willem Maris were in the provinces, and Josef Israels, Johannes Bosboom and Blommers were wandering about from town to town without any permanent headquarters.

Mauve, Neuhuys, Israels, Jacob and Willem Maris, Bosboom, and Blommers not only had everything they painted sold at high prices by Goupil and Company, but they were in a fair way to becoming classics.

Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti surgere qui curat populo!

Maris sculled from the workspace cylinder, with its lockers and racks and benches, through the spherical airlock, into the living quarters.

After nothing else happened for a whole minute, Maris sculled over to investigate.

Maris, as if wondering why Thrawn had brought non-Chiss along for the ride.

While they waited, the Vakil ordered chairs brought for Gabrel and Maris, had his servants bring them cups of fruit sorbet chilled in the mountain snows, and even allowed their bonds to be loosened so that they could hold the cups for themselves.

Maris had all that many chances to sashay along the shopping aisles of Fourteen as if she were a toppie herself, somebody who belonged there.

Maris said in her best toppie voice, a little husky still from the searing mouthful of soup.

A work of fiction should carry the hall mark of its author as surely as a Goya, a Daumier, a Velasquez, and a Mathew Maris, should be the unmistakable creations of those masters.

Maris often had seen flyers, impatient with their land-bound help, draw their almost-open wings up and shake out the last joint or two with a sharp snap.

They were giving her the name of flyer even as they took away her wings, Maris thought.

Maris steps into the Council Room, glances around to see no one besides the other two Council members are there, and closes the door behind him.

And there Sir Percivale de Galis and Sir Ector de Maris began and told the whole adventures: that Sir Launcelot had been out of his mind the time of his absence, and how he called himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet, the knight that had trespassed.

Resigned, he parked the Jeep and came around to open the door for Maris, clasping his hands around her narrow waist and lifting her to the ground.