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The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own gods remain obscure ...
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The Dii Consentes, also known as Di or Dei Consentes (once Dii Complices [1]), or The Harmonious Gods, is an ancient list of twelve major deities, six gods and six goddesses, in the pantheon of Ancient Rome. Their gilt statues stood in the Roman Forum, and later apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium. [2]
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Segesta, goddess who promotes the growth of the seedling. Hostilina, goddess who makes grain grow evenly. [19] Lactans [20] or Lacturnus, [21] god who infuses crops with "milk" (sap or juice). Volutina, goddess who induces "envelopes" (involumenta) or leaf sheaths to form. [22] Nodutus, god who causes the "knot" (Latin nodus [23]) or node to form.
Varro mentions a Grove of Mefitis on the Esquiline, [6] where the women-only festival of Matralia was celebrated on 1 March. [7] Nearby altars to Mala Fortuna, the aspect of the goddess Fortuna associated with misfortune, and Febris, the goddess of fevers, seem to indicate that the air in this part of Rome was considered unwholesome.
Fortuna (Latin: Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at least the Renaissance.