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Hearth with cooking utensils. A hearth (/ h ɑːr θ /) is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
'hearth, fireplace, altar') is the virgin goddess of the hearth and the home. In myth, she is the firstborn child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea , and one of the Twelve Olympians . In Greek mythology, newborn Hestia, along with four of her five siblings, was devoured by her father Cronus, who feared being overthrown by one of his offspring.
Pro aris et focis literally translates "for altars and hearths", but is used by ancient authors to express attachment to all that was most dear and is more idiomatically translated "for hearth and home", since the Latin term aris generally refers to the altars of the spirits of the house (the Lares) and is often used as a synecdoche for the ...
Household deities fit into two types; firstly, a specific deity – typically a goddess – often referred to as a hearth goddess or domestic goddess who is associated with the home and hearth, such as the ancient Greek Hestia.
Keeping rooms have their origins in the 18th-century colonial United States, when they were also known as "hearth rooms". [1] [2] [3] They allowed family members to enjoy the heat of the fireplace—the warmest area in the house—while staying out of the cook's way.
Vesta's sacred hearth was also named Iliaci foci ("hearth of Ilium/Troy"). [12] Worship of Vesta, like the worship of many gods, originated in the home, but in Roman historical tradition, it became an established cult of state during the reign of either Romulus, [13] or Numa Pompilius [14] (sources disagree, but most say Numa). [15]
The main purpose of the Hearth Display touchscreen is to serve as a shared family calendar. The screen measures 27 inches and is installed on your wall, but it’s designed to look like a framed ...
Hearth and Home was an American weekly illustrated magazine which was published from 1868 to 1875. [1] It appeared Saturdays and had a claimed circulation of 40,000 copies in 1869. [ 1 ]