Mythology & Beliefs
Vulcan (Latin: Vulcanus), aka Mulciber, is the god of
beneficial and hindering fire,[1] including the fire of
volcanoes in ancient Roman religion and Roman Neopaganism. He
is known as Sethlans in Etruscan mythology. He was worshipped
at an annual festival on August 23 known as the Volcanalia.
The god belongs to the most ancient stage of Roman r...
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In Roman mythology, Vertumnus - also Vortumnus or Vertimnus -
is the god of seasons, change[1] and plant growth, as well as
gardens and fruit trees. He could change his form at will;
using this power, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiv), he
tricked Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an
old woman and gaining entry to her or...
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In Greek mythology, the Anemoi (in Greek, Ἄνεμοι - "winds")
were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction,
from which their respective winds came, and were each
associated with various seasons and weather conditions. They
were sometimes represented as mere gusts of wind, at other
times were personified as winged men, and at still ...
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In Greek mythology Zeus (pronounced /ˈzuːs/ or /ˈzjuːs/;
Ancient Greek: Ζεύς; Modern Greek: Δίας, Dias) is the "Father
of Gods and men", according to Hesiod's Theogony, who ruled
the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family;
he was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. As
Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Rel...
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Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family
in Roman religion. Vesta's presence was symbolized by the
sacred fire that burned at her hearth and temples. Her closest
Greek equivalent is Hestia......
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(*Ze/furos), the personification of the west wind, is
described by Hesiod (Theog. 579) as a son of Astraeus and Eos.
Zephyrus and Boreas are frequently mentioned together by
Homer, and both dwelt together in a palace in Thrace. (Il.
9.5, Od. 5.295.) By the Harpy Podarge, Zephyrus became the
father of the horses Xanthus and Balius, which belong...
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Vertumnus
or VORTUMNUS, is said to have been an Etruscan divinity
whose worship was introduced at Rome by an ancient Vulsinian
colony occupying at first the Caelian hill, and afterwards
the vicus Tuscus. (Propert 4.2. 6, &c.; Ov. Miet. 14.642.)
The name is evidently connected with verto, and formed on
the analogy of alumnus from alo, when...
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the Roman god of fire, whose name seems to be connected with
fulgere, fulgur, and fulmen. His worship was of considerable
political importance at Rome, for a temple is said to have
been erected to him close by the comitium as early as the
time of Romulus and Tatius, in which the two kings used to
meet and settle the affairs of the state, and n...
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one of the great Roman divinities, identical with the Greek
Hestia both in name and import. She was the goddess of the
hearth, and therefore inseparably connected with the
Penates, for Aeneas was believed to have brought the eternal
fire of Vesta from Troy, along with the images of the
Penates; and the praetors, consuls, and dictators, before ...
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Zephyrus, or just Zephyr (Greek: Ζέφυρος, Zéphuros, "the west
wind"), in Latin Favonius, is the Greek god of the west wind.
The gentlest of the winds, Zephyrus is known as the
fructifying wind, the messenger of spring. It was thought that
Zephyrus lived in a cave in Thrace......
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