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Goddess name "Fatua" | Roman | A Roman goddess identified with Gaea. Known as the kind goddess because of her benevolence towards all creatures. |
Goddess name "Faun" | Roman | Place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people. Roman |
Goddess name "Fauna" | Roman | Minor vegetation goddess. Consort of FAUNUS with guardianship of woods and plants.... |
God name "Faunus" | Roman | Minor vegetation god. Consort of FAUNA with guardianship of woods and plants. He was given many of the attributes of the Greek god PAN including horns and legs of a goat.... |
Goddess name "Febris" | Roman | The goddess of fever, or rather the averter of fever. Roman |
God name "Felicitas" | Roman | Minor god. Linked with agricultural prosperity. Known particularly from the second century BC.... |
Goddess name "Feronia" | Roman | Goddess of orchards and protects freed men. Roman Also regarded as a goddess of the earth or the lower world because she is said to have given to her son three souls, so that Evander had to kill him thrice before he was dead. Roman |
God name "Fides" | Roman | Minor god. Identified with faith and loyalty. A sanctuary was dedicated to him in Rome circa 254 BC. Symbolized by a pair of covered hands.... |
Goddess name "Flora" | Roman | Goddess of gardens, plants, flowers, love, prostitution,spring and youth. Her festival was celebrated from the 28th of April till the first of May, with extravagant merriment and lasciviousness. The resemblance between the names Flora and Chloris led the later Romans to identify the two divinities. Roman |
Goddess name "Flora" | Roman | Goddess of flowers. Consort of ZEPHYRUS and chiefly worshiped by young girls with offerings of fruit and flowers. Her major festivals, with strongly sexual overtones but also identified with the dead, were celebrated in the spring months from April 28 to early May and known as Floralia.... |
Goddess name "Fluonia" | Roman | A surname of the goddess Juno. Roman |
Goddess name "Fons" | Roman | Goddess of fountains Roman |
Goddess name "Fornax" | Roman | A Roman goddess, who is said to have been worshipped that she might ripen the corn, and prevent its being burnt in baking in the oven. Roman |
Goddess name "Fortuna" | Roman | The goddess of chance or good luck, was worshipped both in Greece and Italy, and more particularly at Rome, where she was considered as the steady goddess of good luck, success, and every kind of prosperity. Roman |
Goddess name "Fortuna" | Roman | Goddess of good fortune. A deity who particularly appealed to women, partly in an oracular context. She is depicted carrying a globe, rudder and cornucopiae. She probably evolved from the model of the Greek goddess TYCHE. Her main symbol is the wheel of fate which she may stand upon and Renaissance artists tended to depict her thus. Among her more celebrated sanctuaries in Rome, the temple of Fortuna Redux was built by Domitian to celebrate his victories in Germany. She is depicted in a well-known stone carving in Gloucester Museum, England, holding her three main attributes.... |
God name "Fulminator" | Roman | A surname of the god Jupiter. |
Goddess name "Furiae aka dirae" | Greek / Roman | Eumenides, erinyes,, were originally nothing but a personification of curses pronounced upon a guilty criminal. The name Erinnys, which is the more ancient one, was derived by the Greeks from "I hunt up or persecute", or from the Arcadian "I am angry"; so that the Furiae were either the angry goddesses, or the goddesses who hunt up or search after the criminal. Greek / Roman |
Goddess name "Furiae/ Furies" | Roman | The goddesses of justice & robbers |