Gods easily become very old. Perfection is annihilation; gods change over time. They engage in a wide variety of acts and become indelibly associated with the things they've done.
Mars was considered to be a god of crops, spring, farming, war, destruction, vengeance, and rage. The rageful god of spring? Yes, actually, but not all at the same time. Gods evolve, as do all things which exist.
Gods remember the things they used to do, and immortal memories have great weight. They continue to anchor the divine existence and shape what they do in the future, just as mortal memories shape the mortal's plans.
Mars, at the time of his written records was the god of contest. The idea of war is merely an ignorant lay simplification. Pap for hoi polloi, basically.
Farming is a contest of man vs. nature. War is a contest of man vs. man. Indeed it is not a coincidence it's called a [field] of battle, where blood is sowed and victory is cultivated.
From these facts, we can infer there is a lost aspect of Mars; the contest of man vs. self. Perhaps even in Mars Ultor, as vengeance first requires overcoming your own cowardice. If a man kills your father, killing him will not bring your father back, so why take the risk? A degenerate passion conflicts with a divine passion. There is a contest, a war, between uplifting yourself and surrendering to decay.
When we see a god collating seemingly unrelated aspects, we are correct in a sense: they're unrelated. At least, not in any way directly related in the present. Most accountants of the gods don't distinguish between seed and flower, between fruit and trunk. They are related in the sense that the present was immutably caused by the past. This grows into that. Yes, agriculture grows into war, although farmers and warriors are best described by their contrasts with each other, not their similarities.
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