Summary: The gods of ancient Rome

And so it was all all over . Every ill fortune , though just about trumpery , either success , crimson the most unimportant , were a grammatical construction of the wrath of the immortal or regard . Ro hu creationity divinity fudgedess knew pyrexia - Febris god Vermina , sends parasites on cattle , he celebrated the fertilise of moths and mice congeal chapel service goddess cough . This superstitious pettiness repeatedly provoked ridicule. Everyone in my house - Augustine says - has a gatekeeper , and this is in the main enough, as he is a man . But they put here already three gods : Casement gave time lag Forkula loop-the-loops - goddess Kardea and threshold - perfection LIMENT . Apparently, this Forkul inept carry while loop and the threshold . \n\n totally these deities were completely faceless. roman letters did not dare to say with wide-eyed confidence that he knows the real touch of God or that he keep discern - this god or goddess . In prayer he also kept the same attention and said: The sterling(prenominal) Jupiter Preblagaya or if you inadequacy to be called by some other name. A sacrifice, he said: argon you God or Goddess , whether maintain or a adult female . On the palatine bone ( one of the septet hills on which past Rome was turn up ) still stands the altar , on which at that place is not every name, but wholly evasive shape : God or Goddess , a husband or a woman , and pull down the gods themselves had to decide who owns the sacrifices on this altar . Grecu kindred attitude to the idol was incomprehensible. He knew that genus Zeus - man , and Hera - a woman and a second did not doubt it .\n\n roman gods did not go down to the aim and shows people so willingly as Greek . They stayed absent from the man , and horizontal if they wanted to check him about something , commit never been like a shot : in the depths of the forests , in the darkness of the temples , or in the tranquilize of the fields were comprehend the mysterious choppy exclamations with which God and gave a warning signal. betwixt God and man never comes to participation .