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Mictecacihuatl (Aztec mythology), [28] the chief death goddess; Queen of Mictlan (underworld) or Lady of the Dead; Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec mythology), the chief death god; lord of the Underworld [29] Tlaloc (Aztec mythology), water god and minor death god; ruler of Tlalocan, a separate underworld for those who died from drowning
Quirinus, Sabine god identified with Mars; Romulus, the founder of Rome, was deified as Quirinus after his death. Quirinus was a war god and a god of the Roman people and state, and was assigned a flamen maior; he was one of the Archaic Triad gods. Quiritis, goddess of motherhood. Originally Sabine or pre-Roman, she was later equated with Juno.
In ancient Roman myth and literature, Mors is the personification of death equivalent to the Greek Thanatos. [citation needed] The Latin noun for "death," mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but surviving ancient Roman art is not known to depict death as a woman. [1] Latin poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the ...
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Devana, Andy Paciorek, 2015.. The first source to mention Devana is the Czech Mater Verborum - a Latin dictionary dating back to the 13th century. The text of the dictionary can be read: "Diana, Latonae et Iouis branch" ("Diana, daughter of Jupiter and Latona") and a Czech gloss: "Devana, Letuicina and Perunova dci" ("Devana, daughter of Letuna and Perun"). [10]
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period. Roman mythology ...
In the surviving text of their hymn, the Arval Brothers invoked Mars as ferus, "savage" or "feral" like a wild animal. [37] Mars's potential for savagery is expressed in his obscure connections to the wild woodlands, and he may even have originated as a god of the wild, beyond the boundaries set by humans, and thus a force to be propitiated. [38]
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Greek gods, and Roman gods. For a list of Goddesses with brief ... Deified ancient Roman women (1 C, 8 P) Diana ...