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The Roman Gods

Name Origin where known Picture Characteristics Annona
Mythical personification of the annual food supply
Apollo
Greek Good of healing and prophecy
Asclepius
Greek God of healing
Attis
Phrygian Beloved of Cybele
Bacchus
Greek as Dionysos God of wine
Bellona
Goddess of War
Bona Dea
The 'Good Goddess unnamed spirit whose rites were attended only by women
Cardea
Household goddess of door hinges
Castor & Pollux (Dioscuri)
Greek Two legendary heroes
Ceres
Greek as Demeter Goddess of agriculture
Consus
God of the granary
Cybele
Phrygian See 'Magna Mater'
Diana
Greek as Artemis Goddess of light, also unity of peoples
Dis
Greek as Pluto God of the underworld
Faunus
Greek as Pan God of fertility
Flora
Goddess of fertility and flowers
Forculus
Household god of d
Fortuna
(also Fors, Fors Fortuna) Goddess of good luck
Genius
Male spirit of the Roman family
Glaucus
A sea God
Hercules
Greek as Herakles God of victory and commercial enterprise
Hermes
See Mercury
Isis
Egyptian Goddess of the earth
Janus
God of doorways
Juno
Greek as Hera Goddess of women
Jupiter (English Jove)
Greek as Zeus God of the heavens
uturna
Goddess of fountains
Lar (plural Lares)
a Spirit of the household
Larvae (or Lemures)
mischievous spirits of the dead
Liber
God of fertility and vine growing
Libitina
Goddess of the dead
Limentinus
Household god of the threshold
Magna Mater
Phrygian as Cybele The 'Great Mother', goddess of nature
Magnes
Spirits of the dead
Mars
God of war
Mercury
Greek as Hermes God of merchants
Minerva
Greek as Athena Goddess of crafts and industry
Mithras
Persian as Mithra God of the sun
Neptune
Greek as Poseidon God of the sea
Nundina
Presiding Goddess at the purification and naming of children
Ops
God of of the wealth of the harvest
Osiris Egyptian
Consort of Isis
Pales
God/Goddess of shepherd
Penates
Household spirits of the store cupboard
Picumnus & Pilumnus
Agricultural gods associated with childbirth
Pomona
Goddess of fruit
Portunus
God of harbours
Priapus
God of fertility in gardens and flocks
Puirinus
State god under whose name Romulus was worshipped
Robigus
God of mildew
Roma
Goddess of Rome
Sabazius
Phrygian God of vegetation
Salus
God of health
Serapis
Egyptian God of the sky
Saturn
Greek as Chronos God of sowing
Silvanus
God of woods and fields
Sol
Helios God of the sun
Tellus
Goddess of earth
Terminus
God of property boundaries
Venus
Greek as Aphrodite Goddess of love
Vertumnus (also Vortumnus)
God of orchards
Vesta
Greek as Hestia Goddess of the hearth
Volturnus
God of the Tiber river
Vulcan
Greek as Hephaistos God of fire