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Domain / Function

This page groups deities by the domain or function myth assigns them, the area of life, craft or natural force a god is called on to govern. Wikipedia's overview of deities gives a clear example in the Yoruba god Ogun, described as "the primordial masculine deity as well as the archdivinity and guardian of occupations such as tools making and use, metal working, hunting, war, protection and ascertaining equity and justice." Browsing by domain lets a visitor find every god of, for example, war or the harvest, across many different pantheons at once.

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Overview
What Defines This Grouping
The gods of Roman public and household religion, a tradition defined more by correct performance of rite and by divine function than by narrative. Rome's major gods were progressively identified with Greek ones and much of the myth attached to them is Greek; the archaic priesthoods, the festival calendar and figures such as Janus and Vesta are where the native religion is clearest. 2
Attestation
Era of Attestation
Attested from the sixth century BCE in inscriptions and in the archaic festival calendar; the public cult ended with the imperial legislation of 391 to 392 CE. 2
Veneration Today
The public cult was ended by law in late antiquity; no continuous worship survives. 2
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The gods of Rome

This group holds the deities of ancient Roman religion. Roman worship began with native Italic and household gods and a strong sense of divine functions and rites, and over time identified its major gods with those of Greece, adopting much of Greek myth in the process.

The browser will find the Capitoline triad of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, along with Mars, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and the rest of the Olympian equivalents, as well as distinctively Roman figures such as Janus, the two-faced god of doorways and beginnings, and Vesta of the hearth. The entries note the Greek counterpart of each syncretised god.

Domain / Function

Agriculture and harvest

Domain / Function
4 entries

Ancestors

Domain / Function
1 entry

Beauty

Domain / Function
1 entry

Childbirth

Domain / Function
2 entries

Commerce and wealth

Domain / Function
2 entries

Cosmic order and truth

Domain / Function
1 entry

Craft, metalwork and smithing

Domain / Function
2 entries

Dance and theatre

Domain / Function
1 entry

Death

Domain / Function
1 entry

Divine messenger

Domain / Function
1 entry

Earth

Domain / Function
2 entries

Fate and time

Domain / Function
2 entries

Fertility and generation

Domain / Function
4 entries

Fire

Domain / Function
2 entries

Fortune and luck

Domain / Function
1 entry

Guide of the dead

Domain / Function
1 entry

Healing and medicine

Domain / Function
2 entries

Hearth and domestic fire

Domain / Function
1 entry

Household

Domain / Function
2 entries

The hunt

Domain / Function
1 entry

Justice, law and oaths

Domain / Function
1 entry

Kingship and sovereignty

Domain / Function
2 entries

Love and desire

Domain / Function
3 entries

Marriage and the household

Domain / Function
1 entry

Moon

Domain / Function
2 entries

Motherhood

Domain / Function
1 entry

Music and poetry

Domain / Function
1 entry

Primordial being

Domain / Function
1 entry

Prophecy and divination

Domain / Function
1 entry

Protection and guardianship

Domain / Function
2 entries

Rivers, lakes and springs

Domain / Function
1 entry

Sea and ocean

Domain / Function
1 entry

Seafaring and fishing

Domain / Function
1 entry

Sky

Domain / Function
2 entries

Spring and renewal

Domain / Function
1 entry

Storm and thunder

Domain / Function
1 entry

Sun

Domain / Function
3 entries

Travel, roads and boundaries

Domain / Function
2 entries

The underworld

Domain / Function
2 entries

Vegetation and forests

Domain / Function
1 entry

War and battle

Domain / Function
3 entries

Wilderness and wild animals

Domain / Function
1 entry

Wine and intoxication

Domain / Function
1 entry

Wisdom and counsel

Domain / Function
1 entry
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2012s.v. religion, RomanView the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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