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Salacia, goddess of seawater, wife of Neptune. Salus, goddess of the public welfare of the Roman people; came to be equated with the Greek Hygieia. Sancus, god of loyalty, honesty, and oaths. Saturn, a titan, god of harvest and agriculture, the father of Jupiter, Neptune, Juno, and Pluto.
See also. v. t. This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. List of deities by classification. Lists of deities by cultural sphere. List of fictional deities. List of people who have been considered deities; see also Apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king.
e. Roman mythologyis the body of mythsof ancient Romeas represented in the literatureand 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.
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.
Decline. v. t. e. 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.
Caelus. Caelus or Coelus (/ ˈsiːləs /; SEE-ləs) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare caelum, the Latin word for "sky" or "heaven", hence English "celestial"). The deity's name usually appears in masculine grammatical form when he is conceived of as a male generative force.
Faunus. Faunus and Daphnis practising the Pan flute (Roman copy of Greek original). In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus [ˈfau̯nʊs] was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile, he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan, after which Romans depicted him as a ...
Sol is the personification of the Sun and a god in ancient Roman religion. It was long thought that Rome actually had two different, consecutive sun gods: The first, Sol Indiges (Latin: the deified sun), was thought to have been unimportant, disappearing altogether at an early period. Only in the late Roman Empire, scholars argued, did the ...