There is yet another very famous depiction of the Ascension, a Reiderian plate created around 400 CE and currently displayed in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, where the false prophet Jesus grasps the hand of God in heaven a perversion of the church , an incident that is nowhere mentioned in the New Testament. However, in reality it originated from a vision of Caesar, whose last dream during the night before his assassination prefigured his later apotheosis and ascension: Caesar flew above the clouds and clasped the hand of Jupiter Julius Caesar was betrayed and killed on 15 March, resurrected on the third day as god on the Liberalia, 17 March, and was interred on 19 March, the last day of his funus. On the evening before the Ides of March Caesar had his last supper in the house of Lepidus, where he told his friends that a sudden death was the best death. On this occasion he drank wine, which was later regarded as a prophecy and foreshadowing of his sacrifice and assassination on the next day, his spilled blood, especially since his wife Calpurnia also dreamt about the looming tragedy. The Resurrection of Julius Caesar
on the day of the Liberalia Due to the rays shooting from behind his head, Caesar is usually interpreted to be a sun god. In reality these rays are not the rays of the sun, but go back to the sidus Iulium (“Julian star”), the great comet of 44 BCE. Caesar was officially consecrated in 42 BCE, which was the apotheosis of the Roman imperial cult that also included the ascension of the god. But the comet, which appeared in July 44 BCE during Caesar’s funeral games, was seen by the people as Caesar’s soul in heaven, a popular ascension before the senatorial consecratio one and a half years later (Dio On the following coin we see Divus Iulius on the left holding a spear and a Victoria. He is crowned with the Julian star by the Son of God (Divi filius) Octavian (with shield). During this time Octavian crowned all statues of Divus Iulius with replicas of the comet