| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Unxia" | Roman | Minor goddess of marriage, concerned with anointing the bridgegroom's door. Roman |
| Goddess name "Abeona" | Roman | Goddess of påśśage. Linked with the goddess ADEONA, she is concerned with the safe going-out and coming-in of a child.... |
| Goddess name "Abundantia" | Roman | Minor fertility goddess. The personification of abundance. She continued in French mythology after the Roman occupation, as a lady who enters houses in the night, bringing prosperity.... |
| Goddess name "Anna Perenna" | Roman | Protective goddess. Allegedly she saved the plebeians from famine in their conflict with the patricians in ancient Roman mythology. An openair festival dedicated to her was held on March 15 each year in a grove lying to the north of Rome.... |
| Goddess name "Arachne" | Roman | Minor goddess. Concerned with the craft of weaving.... |
| Goddess name "Candelifera" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CARMENTES.... |
| Goddess name "Carmentes" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CANDELIFERA.... |
| Goddess name "Cinxia" | Roman | Minor goddess of marriage. Concerned with the proper dress of the bride.... |
| Goddess name "Clementia" | Roman | Minor goddess. Generally invoked to protect the common man against the emperor's absolute use of power. Under Hadrian the term cdementia temporum (mildness of the times) came into common usage.... |
| Goddess name "Cunina" | Roman | Minor goddess of infants. Responsible for guarding the cradle.... |
| Goddess name "Deverra" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. A guardian of newborn children. Symbolized by a broom used to sweep away evil influences.... |
| Goddess name "Disciplina" | Roman | Minor goddess. Significant in the legions, known particularly from the second century BC.... |
| Goddess name "Discordia" | Roman | Minor goddess of dissent. Modeled on the Greek deity ERIS.... |
| Goddess name "Fauna" | Roman | Minor vegetation goddess. Consort of FAUNUS with guardianship of woods and plants.... |
| Goddess name "Intercidona" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. A guardian deity invoked to keep evil spirits away from the newborn child. Symbolized by a cleaver.... |
| Goddess name "Lucina" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Concerned with bringing the child into the light. Usually åśśociated with CANDELIFERA and CARMENTES.... |
| Goddess name "Moneta" | Roman | Minor goddess of prosperity. The spirit of the mint, known particularly from the second century BC.... |
| Goddess name "Mors" | Roman | Minor god of death. Mors replaces the Greek THANATOS and, according to legend, is one of the twin sons of NYX, goddess of the night. He lives in part of the remote cave occupied by SOMNUS, god of sleep, beside the river Lethe. Ovid depicts him as a hideous and cadaverous figure dressed in a winding sheet and holding a scythe and hour glåśś. Known particularly through Lacedaemonian culture where twin statues of Mors and Somnus were placed side by side.... |
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