:: Gods ::
Aeneas
One of the heroes of the Iliad, and the subject of Virgil's Aeneid. Son of Venus.
Aequitas
God of fair dealings.
Amor
God of love.
Anteros
Etruscan god of passion.
Apollo
Son of Jupiter and Latona. God of music, playing and Golden Lyre. God of healing and taght man medicine.
Ascanius
The son of Aeneas. He is the founder of the city of Alba Longa in Italy.
Attis
A vegetation god.
Bacchus
The god of wine and ecstasy.
Cacus
Fire deity, brother of Caca. Cacus, three-headed and vomiting flames, was a son of Vulcan. He was noted as a robber, and was strangled to death by Hercules when he stole some of Hercules' cattle.
Chnubis
A Roman god with Greek and Egyptian associations, portrayed as a snake with a lion's head.
Comus
Son of Bacchus and Circe(?). The god of sensual pleasure.
Conditor
God of harvesting the crops.
Consentes Dii
The 12 chief gods (a la the 12 Greek Olympian gods): Jupiter, Apollo, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Vulcan, Juno, Diana, Minerva, Venus, Ceres, and Vesta.
Consus
A god who watches over the storing of grain.
Convector
God of bringing in the crops
Corus
The god who represents the north/north-west wind
Corvus
The messenger of the gods.
Cupid
Means desire (Lat. cupido). The son of Venus, goddess of love.
Cupra
Personification of the day (or light).
Dei Lucrii
Gods of profit.
Dis Pater
God of death and the Underworld. Also called Dispater or Dis.
Dius Fidus
God of oaths.
Domiducus
The god who guides a bride to her new home.
Domitius
The god who kept a woman in the house of her husband.
Endovelicus
God of good health and welfare of the people.
Equestris
Protector of domesticated animals.
Erichthonius
Son of Vulcan. He was deformed (had dragon feet).
Eventus Bonus
The god of success in business, who also ensured a good harvest.
Fabulinus
A minor god of infants
Faunus
He was worshiped as the god of wild nature and fertility.
Favonius
God of the gentle western wind, the herald of spring
Februus
Etruscan god of purification who dwells in the underworld.
Fontus
God of wells and springs.
Glaucus
God of the sea (according to Virgil).
Hercules
The Romans borrowed this hero from the Greeks (Herakles) and changed his name into the familiar Latin one of Hercules (see under Heracles).
Hymen (Hymenaeus)
God of marriage, invoked the wedding night.
Imporcitor
God of the third ploughing
Indigites Dii
They are the protectors of homes, stables, barns, fields, meadows, et cetera.
Inferi Dii
The gods of the underworld
Inuus
The Roman gods of herds
Janus
God of gates and doors, beginnings and endings. Represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions.
Jupiter
King of the Roman gods, son of Saturn (whom he overthrew) and Ops, brother and husband of Juno. And god of light and sky, and protector of the state and its laws
Lactans
The Roman god of agriculture of whom it was said that he made the crops thrive.
Lares
Gods of the household. They were spirits of dead ancestors who protected the family.
Liber
God of fertility and growth in nature
Liber Pater
God of fertility in humans and in agriculture.
Liberalitas
The Roman god of generosity.
Lupercus
God of herds and fruitfulness.
Lutinus
A god of fertility.
Mars
The son of Jupiter and Juno, he was the god of war.
Mercury
Mercury was the son of Jupiter and of Maia, the daughter of the Titan Atlas. He was the messenger of the gods.
Messor
The Roman god agriculture, and especially of mowing
Mors
A god of death.
Mutinus Mutunus
A Roman fertility god who was invoked by women seeking to bear children.
Nemestrinus
A Roman god of the woods.
Neptune
Son of Saturn, and brother to Jupiter and Pluto. God of the sea. Usually shown carrying a trident and rising from the sea.His Greek mythology counterpart was Poseidon.
Nodutus
The god who was held responsible for making the knots in the stalks of corn.
Obarator
The Roman god of ploughing.
Occator
The Roman god of harrowing.
Orcus
The Roman god of death and the underworld.
Penates
Gods who presided over the welfare of the family.
Picumnus
A minor god of growth and fertility of the fields.
Picus
A god of agriculture and forests.
Pilumnus
Pilumnus is a minor Roman god, the brother of Picumnus and together they stimulated the growth of little children and avert sickness.
Pluto (Dis or Dis Pater, Orcus)
God of the dead, the abductor, and later, the husband of Proserpine.
Portunes
God of harbors and ports
Porus
God of prosperity.
Priapus
God of fertility. The Roman patron god of gardens, viniculture, sailors and fishermen.
Promitor
The Roman god associated with the bringing out of the harvest from the barns.
Quirinus
God of war.
Rederator
God of the second ploughing.
Robigus
God of grain, especially corn.
Saritor
The Roman god of weeding and hoeing.
Saturn
The god of farmers and agriculture concerned with the sowing of the seeds.
Silvanus
God of nature and the woods.
Sol
Sun god.
Somnus
God of sleep and dreams.
Sors
God of luck
Spiniensis
The Roman god who was called upon when people removed thorns from the fields.
Statanus
The Roman god who watched over the first time a child went away and returned.
Stercutus
A Roman god who took care of the fertilization of farmland.
Subruncinator
God of weeding.
Summanus
A god of thunder.
Tages
Early Etruscan god of prophecy. Born in the morning as a clod of earth rising from recently plowed fields, he predicted the future to the villagers who saw him, taught them the rites of prophecy, then died. His words became the foundation of Etruscan prophecy.
Terminus
God of boundaries (or boundary stones).
Tiberinus
The god of the river Tiber
Tibertus
The god of the river Anio
Tinia
Etruscan god of storms.
Uranus
God of the sky.
Veiovis
Veiovis is one of the oldest of the Roman gods. He is a god of healing
Vercvactor
The Roman god of the first ploughing
Verminus
Verminus is the Roman god of the worms in cattle.
Vertumnus
The Ancient Roman god of the seasons. He was the husband of Pomona.
Virtus
The Roman god of courage and military prowess.
Vulcan
A son of Jupiter and Juno. He was also called Mulciber. He is the god of fire.
Vulturnus
The Roman god of the East Wind,