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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 ...
See also Wikipedia's categories of Greek goddesses, Greek gods, and Roman gods. For a list of Goddesses with brief descriptions, see List of Roman Goddesses Subcategories
Upon Buddhism's arrival in China, it became syncretized with the native culture. Three Taoist gods, namely the Emperor Zi Wei, Emperor Dongyue and the Thunder God, were added to the grouping as well, forming the modern list of twenty-four deities. [1] [2] Veneration of the twenty-four deities has continued into modern Chinese Buddhist traditions.
Roman goddesses (16 C, 158 P) Roman gods (16 C, 95 P) A. Deities in the Aeneid (13 C, 28 P) ... List of Roman birth and childhood deities; A. Agdistis; Anthelioi; D ...
24 Hmong-Mien mythology. ... 41 Roman mythology. 42 Slavic mythology. 43 Thai mythology. 44 Tungusic mythology. ... This is a list of goddesses, ...
Each Roman home had a set of protective deities: the Lar or Lares of the household or familia, whose shrine was a lararium; the Penates who guarded the storeroom (penus) of the innermost part of the house; Vesta, whose sacred site in each house was the hearth; and the Genius of the paterfamilias, the head of household. [18]
Cacus, god who was the fire-breathing giant son of Vulcan, and who might have been worshipped in ancient times; Fornax, goddess of the furnace; Sol, personification and god of the Sun; Stata Mater, goddess who stops fires; Vesta, goddess of the hearth and its fire, Roman form of Hestia. Vulcan, god of crafting and fire, Roman form of Hephaestus
List of goddesses List of people who have been considered deities ; see also Apotheosis , Imperial cult and Sacred king Names of God , names of deities of monotheistic religions