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List of Gods : "Lemures" - 3 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Ghost name "Lares"	Roman	Either domestic or public. Domestic lares were the souls of virtuous ancestors exalted to the rank of protectors. Public lares were the protectors of roads and streets. Domestic lares were images, like dogs, set behind the hall door, or in the lararium or shrine. Wicked souls became lemures or ghosts that made night hideous. Penates were the natural powers personified, and their office was to bring wealth and plenty, rather than to protect and avert danger. Roman
Spirit name "Lemures"	Greek	Spectres or spirits of the dead, which were believed by the Romans to return to the upper world and injure the living. Some writers describe Lemures as the common name for all the spirits of the dead and divide all Lemures into two clåśśes; viz. the souls of those who have been good men are said to become Lares, while those of the wicked become Larvae. Greek
Spirit name "Lemures/ Larve"	Roman	These are evil spirits of the dead with two festivals one on nine November & 1 on 13 May

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