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	Lares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lares (pl.) (also called Genii loci or, more archaically, Lases) were Roman deities protecting the house and the family - household gods.
		Over time, their power was extended over houses, country, sea, cities, etc., as the Lares became conflated with other Roman deities and protective spirits.
		Lares are presumed sons of Hermes and Lara, and deeply venerated by ancient Romans through small statues, usually put in higher places of the house, far from the floor, or even on the roof (but some statues were also on some crossings of roads).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lares (249 words)

	Lares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lares (pl.) (also called Genii loci or, more archaically, Lases) were Roman deities protecting the house and the family- household gods.
		Over time, their power was extended over houses, country, sea, cities, etc., as the Lares became conflated with other Roman deities and protective spirits.
		Lares are presumed sons of Hermes and Lara, and deeply venerated by ancient Romans through small statues, usually put in higher places of the house, far from the floor, or even on the roof (but some statues were also on some crossings of roads).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lares (231 words)

	Lares - Definition of Lares by Webster's Online Dictionary
		Lares (pl.) (also called Genii loci or, more archaically, Lases) were Roman deities protecting the house and the family - household gods.
		Over time, their power was extended over houses, country, sea, cities, etc., as the Lares became conflated with other Roman deities and protective spirits.
		Lares are presumed sons of Hermes and Lara, and deeply venerated by ancient Romans through small statues, usually put in higher places of the house, far from the floor, or even on the roof (but some statues were also on some crossings of roads).
	www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/lares (231 words)

	Lares - Unipedia
		Lares (pl.) (also called Genii loci or, more archaically, Lases) were Roman deities protecting the house and the family - household gods.
		Over time, their power was extended over houses, country, sea, cities, etc., as the Lares became conflated with other Roman deities and protective spirits.
		Lares are presumed sons of Hermes and Lara, and deeply venerated by ancient Romans through small statues, usually put in higher places of the house, far from the floor, or even on the roof (but some statues were also on some crossings of roads).
	www.unipedia.info /Lares.html (333 words)

	Roman Deities
		Silvanus was the Roman god of the woodland and agriculture.
		Penates were household gods that were honoured along with Lares and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth.
		The Roman identified Diana with Arduinna, who was the Gallic goddess of the forest and hunting, as well with Asiatic Astarte.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/roman.html (4874 words)

	Roman Deities
		In Roman myth, Mars was the son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Juno (Hera).
		Turan is the Etruscan equivalent to the Roman goddess.
		According to the Roman writer Vergil, Venus had a mortal lover named Anchises, and she was the mother of the Trojan hero, named Aeneas, ancestor of the Roman people.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/roman.html (4874 words)

	Internet Book of Shadows: Greek and Roman Deities (Thomas Palmer)
		THE LARES- Roman- Twin children of Mercury by the rape of Lara.
		QUIRINUS- A Roman warrior god originally, he became a god who watched over the well being of the community, opposite to his former nature.
		Like Penia, he was said to always be in search of something, and like Porus, he always found a means of attaining his aims.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bos/bos329.htm (4874 words)

	Ã Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine Book of Days January 12 Plough Monday Lares Roman household gods Fire Festival Scalloway epiphany Long John Baldry Agatha Christie
		Lares Familiaris : Each home had a small shrine, the lararium, dedicated to these deities, typically depicted as a pair of dancing youths.
		Plough Monday Lares Roman household gods Fire Festival Scalloway epiphany Long John Baldry Agatha Christie
		Or, if any of the ploughmen, returning home at night, came to the kitchen door and cried "Cock in the pot!" before any maid could cry "Cock on the dunghill!", she incurred the same forfeit.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jan12.html (4874 words)

	PBS: The Roman Empire in the First Century - Life in Roman Times
		In addition to the numina, Roman religion included worship of ancestors and household gods — the lares and penates — and worship of anthropomorphic deities, some native, some historical, and some imported from Greece and the East.
		A portion of each meal was thrown into the fire as an offering to both the lares and penates of the house, and their blessings were invoked before any special family event.
		Household slaves were also expected to worship the lares and penates worshipped by their owners.
	www.pbs.org /empires/romans/life/life5a.html (869 words)

	Roman Deities
		Penates were household gods that were honoured along with Lares and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth.
		Lares were tutelary household gods that were honoured along with Penates and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth.
		In the private household, she was worshipped along with the Penates and a Lar.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/roman.html (4874 words)

	Lares
		Lares''' (pl.) (also called '''Genius lociGenii loci''' or, more archaically, '''Lases) were Roman EmpireRoman deitydeities protecting the house and the family - household deityhousehold gods.
		Over time, their power was extended over houses, country, sea, cities, etc., as the Lares became conflated with other Roman mythologyRoman/ deities and protective spirits.
		Lares are presumed sons of Hermes and Lara, and deeply venerated by ancient Romans through small statues, usually put in higher places of the house, far from the floor, or even on the roof (but some statues were also on some crossings of roads).
	www.infothis.com /find/Lares (278 words)

	Roman Culture and the Aeneid
		Though the Romans borrowed some deities from the Greeks (Apollo) and grafted the personalities of others onto already existing Italic deities (Zeus became Jove, Hera became Juno, Hermes became Mercury, Aphrodite became Venus, etc.), the Romans retained their own particular beliefs, especially those centered around the household gods and the family hearth.
		Every Roman family had a Lar, who was the spirit of an ancestor, and several Penates, gods of the hearth and guardians of the storehouse.
		There were also public Lares and Penates, who did for the city what the others did for the family.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/Aeneid.htm (1775 words)

	Roman mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The important Roman deities were eventually identified with the more anthropomorphic Greek gods and goddesses, and assumed many of their attributes and myths.
		Thus, Janus and Vesta guarded the door and hearth, the Lares protected the field and house, Pales the pasture, Saturn the sowing, Ceres the growth of the grain, Pomona the fruit, and Consus and Ops the harvest.
		The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see List of Di Indigetes), and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Mythology (2224 words)

	Roman Deities
		Silvanus was the Roman god of the woodland and agriculture.
		According to later myth, Lares were the children of Mercury and the naiad Lara.
		Fontus was the son of Janus, the god of passage, and of Juturna, the goddess of spring.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/roman.html (4874 words)

	Roman Deities
		Silvanus was the Roman god of the woodland and agriculture.
		Jupiter was the supreme god of the Roman pantheon.
		Penates were household gods that were honoured along with Lares and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/roman.html (4874 words)

	Religion @ OnlineReligion.com
		Over time, their power was extended over houses, country, sea, cities, etc., as the Lares became conflated with other Roman deities and protective spirits.
		Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism remain nearly universal in the Far East, and have greatly influenced spirituality, particularly in the United States.
		India which is more than 80% Hindu is regarded as one of the most religious countries in the world.
	www.onlinereligion.com (5113 words)

	Faeries
		And then, there are household or guardian spirits that can be found in Roman religion and mythology, such as the penates, lares and genii.
		These deities that were worshipped before the conversion to Christianity were reduced to the status of fairies in Celtic mythology and folklore.
		In 1987, Patrica Lysaght claimed that the closest anticipation of the banshee found in Old Irish mythology was Fedelm, the seeress in the Táin Bó Cuailnge (Ulster Cycle).
	timelessmyths.com /celtic/faeries.html (4484 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - tutelary
		Lares, in Roman mythology, tutelary deities of the crossroads and country districts; also, and more commonly, the gods of the household.
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	encarta.msn.com /tutelary.html (50 words)

	Faeries
		And then, there are household or guardian spirits that can be found in Roman religion and mythology, such as the penates, lares and genii.
		These deities that were worshipped before the conversion to Christianity were reduced to the status of fairies in Celtic mythology and folklore.
		The Norse versions of the fairies are the wide variety of elves and the dísir that exist in the Teutonic traditions.
	timelessmyths.com /celtic/faeries.html (4484 words)

	LA REOLE - LoveToKnow Article on LA REOLE
		Originally two.in number, mythologically the sonsof Mercurius and Lara (or Larunda), they were the presiding deities of the cross-roads (compita), where they had their special chapels.
		It has been maintained by some that they are the twin brothers so frequent in early religions, the Romulus and Remus of the Roman foundation legends.
		Amongst these must be included, at least after the time of Augustus, the Lares compitales.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LA_REOLE.htm (4484 words)

	THE SANCTUARY OF DELOS
		Number 2 on plan is the Agora of the Competaliasts, or freedmen and slaves whose patron deities were the Roman gods of the crossroads, the Lares Compitales.
		What intruded on the Letoon's precinct or sacred space around it was the later Italian Agora, the larges building at Delos.
		As it faces the Apollo and Artemis monuments, it seems likely that even earlier structures may have been in these locations, connecting the family group.
	rocky.unca.edu /classics/rohancart/ALLPAGES/delphi/sanctuary_of_delos.htm (4484 words)

	Roman Deities
		The Lares were worshipped with Vesta and the Penates.
		The Penates for the Roman citizens as a large "family" were known as penates publici.
		The Penates were honored at every family meal and every feast.
	www.musesrealm.net /rome/gods.html (577 words)

	Ancient Roman Religion
		Though some deities older still, no trace but names (e.g., Falacer) and though some of them wee shared with others in ancient Italy, still impossible to write "prehistory" of Roman religion pror to 753 BCE.
		Vesta's priestesses, Vestal virgins in their round temple in the Forum, watched over the Penates of the ROman people and over the fire, which might not be allowed to die.
		Of these earlier dieites, most ancient probably Janus, Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus, Vesta, di penates and lares, Genius, Tellus,Consus, Ops, and Sataurnus.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/1romrel.html (3018 words)

	Untitled
		These, the Lares and Di Penates of the gens, the Genius of the paterfamilias, and the other deities of the Religio Romana are regularly worshipped by the paterfamilias in the name of the gens as a whole.
		Gens Labiena upholds that practice, and asks that all gentiles' cognomina be inherited by any offspring they have that are also brought into the gens.
		Likewise, should a member of the gens choose to renounce his or her Nova Roman citizenship, he or she does not need to renounce his or her membership in the gens.
	labienus.home.texas.net /bylaws.html (1518 words)

	Rome Roma Roman Ancient Civilization
		Ancient Roman worship incorporated an amalgam of diverse cultural beliefs that included Nature Spirits, "Numina"; ancestral and household deities, "Lares" and "Penates"; anthropomorphic goddesses and gods; small shrines like "Compita" which were placed at country crossroads and city intersections; festivals; and temples.
		Many of the ancient Roman goddesses and gods and Romano-Celtic goddesses and gods are now serving the peoples of the planet as Hierarchs of the Twelve Universal Rays; while, a few are serving as Archangels of the Twelve Universal Rays.
		Ancient Roman Festivals, like the Roman goddesses and gods (see Roman goddesses and gods in the Overview below), were adopted and adapted from the ancient Greek Festivals.
	spiritsongs.org /Rome_Roma_Roman_Ancient_Civilization.htm (4804 words)

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