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Every civilization needed a god who never lost.

Seven war gods — same need, different faces: someone to guard the gates.

Cover — every civilization needed a god who never lost.
Ares — Greece's war god
Mars — Rome's war god
Sekhmet — Egypt's lioness war goddess
Kū — one of Hawaii's four great gods, invoked before battle and voyages
Tyr — Norse war god
Guan Yu — a real Chinese general turned war god, still honored today
Huitzilopochtli — Aztec war god
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Greece feared Ares. Rome loved Mars. Egypt unleashed the lioness Sekhmet. And China turned a real general — Guan Yu — into a god still honored today. Same need, different faces: someone to guard the gates.