This table of gods and goddesses of the indigenous Latin religion is something that developed over the years as part of a fiction writing project I was involved with. It occurs to me now that it is far more complete than any other such listing I have ever encountered. So, I offer it to you, for whatever use you can put it to.
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Roman God Sphere of Operation
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Name
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M/F
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Misc. Data
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Abundance
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Copia
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F
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Abundance
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Porus
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M
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Abundance
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Volumnus
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M
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Action
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Agenor
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M
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Aids in strenuous work; also healing
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Strenia
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F
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Old Sabine goddess; temple on the Via Sacra; also oversees distribution of new year's gifts
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Aids the weary
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Fessonia
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F
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Boundaries
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Terminus
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M
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Very old and important deity; his festival, the Terminalia, was in February; landowners sacrificed at the boundary stones of their property
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Civic: spirit of the Palatine
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Palatua
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F
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Identified with Pales
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Civic: welfare of the state
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Salus
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F
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Commerce, Weights and Measures
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Castor & Pollux
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M
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Greek imports but very important and ubiquitous
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Communications; doors; the harbor
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Portunus; Portumnus
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M
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Appears in the Aeneid
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Council; good advice
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Consus
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M
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Death
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Tarpeia
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F
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Death: funerals
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Larenta
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F
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Death: funerals
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Libitina
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F
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Register of the dead is kept at her temples
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Death: funerals
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Naenia
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F
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Especially funerals of the aged
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Death: power over life and death
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Genita-Mana
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F
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Name means "Birth-Death"
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Discord
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Ate, Discordia
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F
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Daughter of Nox, goddess of evil, exiled from Olympus by Jove; sister of Nemesis, the Parcae and Death
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Disease
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Verminus
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M
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Name means "wormy"
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Disease: fever
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Febris
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F
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Disease: stenches that produce illness: swamps and sewer
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Mefitis
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F
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Disease: the itch
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Scabies
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F
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Doors; beginnings and endings;
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Janus
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M
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Major deity; see Terminus, Portunus
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Emotion: Alarm
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Pavor
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M
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Child of Mars
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Emotion: dispels mental anguish
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Volupia
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F
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Emotion: family harmony
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Verplaca
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F
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Families reconciled at her temple on the Palatine
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Emotion: fear
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Pallor
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F
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Child of Mars
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Emotion: inspiration
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Stimula
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F
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Excrement
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Caca
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F
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Ministered to by the Vestals
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Fertility
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Nerio
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F
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Consort of Mars; old Sabine goddess
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Flowers
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Flora
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F
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Gave magic flower to Juno so she could conceive Mars without a father; joyful Floralia in March w/ theater, games
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Food
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Edesia
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F
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Food: apples
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Pomona
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F
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Entire month of September was sacred to her; festival participants decked out in flowers
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Food: baking
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Fornax
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F
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"Oven"; festival of the Fornacalia celebrated in February; also call the "Festival of the Stupid"
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Food: beverages
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Bibesia
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F
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Food: fruit, abundance of
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Frutesca
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F
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Food: honey
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Mellona
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F
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Food: the grindstone
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Molae
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F
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Daughter of Mars; Worshipped by millers
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Fraud and deception
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Fraus
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F
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A young woman with hidden deformities and a snake's tail; daughter of Orcus and Nox
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Healing
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Caia Caecilia
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F
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Deified mortal princess Tanaquil
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Healing
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Meditrina
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F
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Sister of Hygeia, daughter of Aesculapius; restored health, whereas Hygeia preserved health; festival in October
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Healing
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Minerva Medica
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F
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Goddess of physicians; Greek Athena
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Healing
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Valentia
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F
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Umbrian town of Oriculum
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Healing: especially of poison
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Angitia
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F
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Sister of Circe and Medea; sacred grove on Lake Fuscinus where both poisonous snakes and medicinal herbs were found
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Healing; prophecy; water: river god
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Clitumnus
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M
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Umbrian
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Highway bandits
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Furrina
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F
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Festival at the end of June
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Home: hinges
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Cluerca or Carda
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F
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Originally a nymph and virgin huntress; fooled would-be suitors by sending them ahead of her into a cave and then disappearing; couldn't fool Janus who could see in both directions; he made her a goddess
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Home: lintels
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Limentinus
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M
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Home: thresholds
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Forculus
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M
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Home: Weaving
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Lina
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F
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Horses
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Epona
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F
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Industry and Silence
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Agenoria
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F
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Journeys
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Adeona
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F
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Kindness, good will, the Etruscan federation
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Voltumna
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F
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Landscape: groves
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Nemestrinus
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M
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Mentioned only by Arbonius
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Landscape: hills and downs
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Collatina
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F
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Landscape: nature
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Sylvanus
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M
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Frightening deity, sometimes beneficent
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Landscape: old nature god
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Picus
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M
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Son of Saturn; Father of Sylvanus; So beautiful all who saw him fell in love; "woodpecker"
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Landscape: the earth
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Tellumo
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F
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Very old god
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Landscape: trees, orchards, woods
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Feronia
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F
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Goddess who tames what is wild; frees slaves
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Landscapes: the valleys
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Vallonia
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F
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Lares, Mother of, wife of Mercury
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Lara
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F
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Mother by Jupiter; an Etruscan goddess
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Luck
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Bonus Eventus
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F
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Affected single events, not the course of a life
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Marriage
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Jugatinus
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M
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Also mountain ridges
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Marriage: brings the bride into the house
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Domitius; Domidius
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M
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Marriage: courtship
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Juga
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F
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Marriage: Honeymoon
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Subigus
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M
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Tutelary god of the wedding night
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Marriage: honeymoon; loosens the bride's girdle
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Cinxia
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F
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Marriage: keeps the couple together
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Manturnae
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F
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Marriage: mutual Love and tenderness
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Anteros
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M
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Mediator between gods and humans
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Soranus
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M
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Health, purification,
savage, ecstatic rites
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Money
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Pecunia
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F
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Money: metal coins
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Aesculanus
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M
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Monster
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Cacus
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M
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Three-headed, fire-breathing monster killed by Hercules in fight over some of Geryon's cattle
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Monster
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Volta
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M
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Volsciian monster; depicted in Etruscan art as daemonic entity with wolf's head
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Moon
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Luna
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F
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Night
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Noctornus
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M
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Perhaps same as Vesper or Nox
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Numbers
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Numeria
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F
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Nymph
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Carmenta
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F
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Mother of the Camenae; aka Postverta
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Nymph
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Egeria
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F
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A Camena
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Oaths
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Fidius Dius; Sanctus Saber; Semipater
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M
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Oaths
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Semo Sancus
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M
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Old Latin deity; see Fides in Virtues & Personifications
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Openings of roads and towns
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Panda
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F
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Persuasion
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Suadela
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F
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Pleasure: Beauty
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Hora
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F
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Pleasure: Coition
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Perfica
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F
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Pleasure: Laziness
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Mercia
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F
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Pleasure: Leisure and Repose
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Vacuna
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F
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Festival in December
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Pleasure: Lust
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Libentina
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F
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Pleasure: Night life
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Comus
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M
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Pleasure: Sensuality
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Voluptas
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F
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Prayer
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Peta
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F
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Protectress of things purified by ritual
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Lua
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F
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Wife of Saturn
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Protects from enemies, drives them away
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Pellonia
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F
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Protects from evil, envy, black magic, demons, illness
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Fascinus
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M
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Punishment
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Poena
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F
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Reputation, rumor
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Fama
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F
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A troublesome goddess, mixes truth and falsehood
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Sewers
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Cloacina
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F
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"The Purifier"
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Silence (or change)
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Muta / Tacita
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F
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Singing
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Camoena
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F
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Slavery: freedom and manumission
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Libertas
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F
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Cats are dear to her
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Stars: Morning star
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Lucifer
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M/F
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Thieves and Impostors
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Laverna
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F
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Had an altar and sanctuary grove on the Aventine where thieves hid and prayed to her for the appearance of honesty
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Time: the cycling year
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Anna Perenna
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F
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Ovid tells of how she was go-between when Mars wooed Nerio; substituted herself, an old crone, for Nerio at the assignation; festival on Ides of March at which people drank as many glasses of wine as years they wished to live
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Time: the future
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Antevorta
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F
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Time: the month of March
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Mamurius Veturius
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M
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"The old man of March," expelled during the March festival
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Time: the past
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Postvorta
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F
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Time: the seasons; ruler of trade and produce
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Vertumnus
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M
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Connection to the seasons may be spurious; husband of Pomona; festival in October
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Time: winter solstice; also suffering and silence
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Angerona
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F
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Tolerance and Mercy
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Clementia
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F
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Travel: Protects ocean voyagers; also goddess of the dawn; aids in childbirth
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Mater Mutata
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F
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Matralia (summer solstice) in July where women acted out the role of the goddess
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Underworld
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Veiovis; Vediovis
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M
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Not really like Pluto
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Underworld: Ghosts
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Mania
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F
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Grandmother of Ghosts; probably Etruscan; sacrificed to with poppy heads and garlic
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Underworld; protected internal organs; white magic; protected the exterior of houses
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Carna
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F
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also protected the state; quelled evil or traitorous thoughts; a virgin deified after Janus violated her; festival in June when bacon and beans were consumed
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Unknown
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Hersilia
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F
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Sabine wife of Romulus, deified by Juno
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Unknown
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Falacer
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M
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Deified Italic hero; had an established priesthood and temple in Rome; absolutely nothing is known about him
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Unknown
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Feretris
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M
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Unknown
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Lapis
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?
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"Stone"
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Unknown
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Larenta
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F
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May have been the she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus; may have been goddess of prostitutes
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Virginity
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Daphne
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F
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Voice, disembodied
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Aius Locutius
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?
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Divine voice that warned Rome that the Gauls were attacking; chapel and altar on the Via Nova
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Voice, disembodied
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Canens
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F
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Wife of Picus, mother of Faunus; after Circe transformed Picus into a woodpecker, Canens called his name until she wasted away to just a voice
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War; sister of Mars
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Bellona
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F
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Carried a whip; snakes for hair; initiated war by pitching a spear into the enemy country; temple had no doors; spear thrown over the column of war; priests mutilated selves, offered blood; festival in June w/ races between boys and men
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Water
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Neverita
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F
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Wife of Neptune
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Water: Albula, a sulfurous river; a grove goddess residing in a spring at Tibur
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Albunea
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F
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Prophetic; Varro calls her a sibyl; "the white"
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Water: hot springs of Abona
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Abonius
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M
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Water: ocean deeps
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Salacia
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F
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Wife of Neptune
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Water: ocean shallows
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Venelia
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F
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Wife of Neptune
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Water: springs
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Fons
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F
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Her festival, the Fontinalia, in October when the springs begin to flow again after the summer heat
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Water: springs
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Juturna
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F
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A Camena; lover of Janus
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Water: the Tiber
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Volturnus
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M
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aka Tiberinus
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Weather: lightning
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Fulgora
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F
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Weather: Nocturnal thunderstorms
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Summanus
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M
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Women: menstruation
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Fluonia
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F
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Women: protects virginity
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Pertunda
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F
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Youth, young men of Rome
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Juventas
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M
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