Gods and Goddesses of Agriculture

Agriculture

Dea Dia

F

Assures the watering of the crops

Nympha

F

Cattle

Bubona

F

Cattle

Faustitas

F

Crops; birth, death

Tellus

F

Personified earth; very ancient god

Farming

Fauna; Fatua

F

Wife of Faunus; night festival in May; women only; mystery rites, fun and feasting

Field work, preliminary

Vervactor

M

Field work, secondary

Redarator

M

Field work, tertiary

Insitor

M

Flowering corn

Matura

F

Growing corn

Lacturna

F

Harrowing

Occator

M

Harvest

Ops

F

Very popular goddess; shared the December Saturnalia with Saturn wherein roles were reversed and masters served slaves for a day

Herds

Pales

F

Sometimes, apparently, a male entity; Palilia in April celebrated the city's founding

Hoeing and Weeding

Sarritor

M

Manure

Sterculius

M

Oversees soil removal (runcation)

Runcina

F

Protects against corn mildew

Robigo

M

Sacrificed to annually in April to spare the crops

Protects against corn mildew

Robiga

F

Wife of Robigo

Protects harvested corn

Consus

M

Very important god; connected to horses and mules; underground chapel in Rome; cult partner of Ops; Consualia in August featured mule races

Protects stored grain

Tutilina

F

Protects the knots of the stems on corn plants

Nodotus

M

Protects the seed in the ground

Seia

M

Protects the sheaves

Volutina

F

Protects the shoots

Patelana

F

Protects the stems

Hostilina

F

Straw

Segetia

F