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  2. Tutelary deity - Wikipedia

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    A tutelary (/ ˈ tj uː t ə l ɛ r i /; also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation. The etymology of "tutelary" expresses the concept of safety and thus of guardianship.

  3. Genius (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Roman religion, the genius (Latin: [ˈɡɛnɪ.ʊs]; pl.: genii) is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing. [1] Much like a guardian angel, the genius would follow each man from the hour of his birth until the day he died. [2]

  4. List of Roman deities - Wikipedia

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    Pietas, goddess of duty; personification of the Roman virtue pietas. Pilumnus, minor guardian god, concerned with the protection of infants at birth. Pluto, Greek Plouton, a name for the ruler of the dead popularized through the mystery religions and Greek philosophy, sometimes used in Latin literature and identified with Dis pater or Orcus.

  5. Lares - Wikipedia

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    Lares (/ ˈ l ɛər iː z, ˈ l eɪ r iː z / LAIR-eez, LAY-reez, [1] Latin:; archaic lasēs, singular lar) were guardian deities in ancient Roman religion. Their origin is uncertain; they may have been hero-ancestors, guardians of the hearth, fields, boundaries, or fruitfulness, or an amalgam of these.

  6. Genius loci - Wikipedia

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    In classical Roman religion, a genius loci (pl.: genii locorum) was the protective spirit of a place. It was often depicted in religious iconography as a figure holding attributes such as a cornucopia, patera (libation bowl), or snake. Many Roman altars found throughout the Western Roman Empire were dedicated to a particular genius loci.

  7. Guardian angel - Wikipedia

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    Saint Gemma Galgani, a Roman Catholic mystic, stated that she had interacted with and spoken with her guardian angel. [24] Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was known to instruct his parishioners to send him their guardian angel to communicate a trouble or issue to him when they could not travel to get to him or another urgency existed.

  8. Janus - Wikipedia

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    The Roman statue of the Janus of the Argiletum, traditionally ascribed to Numa, was possibly very ancient, perhaps a sort of xoanon, like the Greek ones of the 8th century BC. [ 259 ] In Hinduism , the image of double- or four-faced gods is quite common, as it is a symbolic depiction of the divine power of seeing through space and time.

  9. Numen - Wikipedia

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    Numen was also used in the imperial cult of ancient Rome, to refer to the guardian-spirit, 'godhead' or divine power of a living emperor—in other words, a means of worshiping a living emperor without literally calling him a god. [9] The cult of Augustus was promoted by Tiberius, who dedicated the Ara Numinis Augusti. [10]