# Why is Jupiter called Jupiter?

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**Created:** [May 29, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-jupiter-called-jupiter/721127 "2015-05-29T15:58:22Z")\
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Religions change with time, and are never uniform within a single culture. Maybe, to the people who named the stars, Ishtar/Venus/other feminine deity was the most powerful of all the gods. It wouldn’t be the first time that matriarchal religious systems were subsumed into later patriarchal ones.

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