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On the series Battlestar Galactica, The Lords of Kobol are the gods of the peooples of the Twelve Colonies. In the original series, the lords were referred to as the Seraph. Nine deities were said to exist in the original series.

In the reimagined series, the Lords take on more prominent roles The series' mythology is modeled after Greek and Roman deities. Eight have been identified by name.

• Zeus/Jupiter – As in Greek myth, Zeus is the king of the gods. (Adama has also been referred to as Zeus)
• Apollo – Said to be the god of hunt and healing, Apollo is the son of Zeus. (Apollo is the call sign for Adama's son, Lee Adama.
• Ares/Mars – Ares is the god of war and the god to whom Cally and Galen Tyrol's son was dedicated
• Artemis – Sister of Apollo, Artemis is the goddess of the hunt.
• Aphrodite – The goddess of love
• Athena – Said to have committed suicide in her grief over the exodus of the thirteen tribes from Kobol.
• Aurora – Goddess of the dawn. An idol of her was given to Adama by Kara Thrace
• Hera – Both sister and wife of Zeus. Helo and wife Sharon named their daughter after her.

History

In the religious scrolls on the reimagined series, it is said that the Lords of Kobol lived in paradise with the people of Kobol. A vague calamity, said to have been caused by a single jealous god, whose desire to be the most important of the gods, caused a war that forced humans to leave the planet and head out in space, to found the Twelve Colonies. One of the tribes went separately from the other twelve to Earth, the location of which became lost to them.

Evidence as to the existence of the Lords of Kobol exists in the form of the Arrow of Apollo, the Gates of Hera, The Eye of Jupiter and the Tomb of Athena.