Roman Gods

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Venus Goddess of love

Venus is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, broadly, although not completely, equivalent to Greek Aphrodite and Etruscan Turan.

Her cult began in Ardea and Lavinium, Latium. On August 18, 293 BC, her oldest temple was built. August 18 was then a festival called the Vinalia Rustica. On April 1, the Veneralia was celebrated in honor of Venus Verticordia, the protector against vice. On April 23, 215 BC, a temple was built outside the Colline gate on the Capitol dedicated to Venus to commemorate the Roman defeat at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.

Julius Caesar introduced Venus Genetrix as a goddess of motherhood and domesticity.

Venus was often referred to with epithet Venus Erycina ("of the heather").

Venus became a popular subject of painting and sculpture during the Renaissance period in Europe. As a "classical" figure for whom nudity was her natural state, it was socially acceptable to depict her unclothed. As the goddess of sexual healing, a degree of erotic beauty in her presentation was justified, which had an obvious appeal to many artists and their patrons. Over time, "venus" came to refer to any artistic depiction of a nude woman, even when there was no indication that the subject was the goddess.

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Vesta Goddess of hearth

Vesta was the virgin goddess of the health, home, and family in Roman mythology, analogous to Hestia in Greek mythology. She has no distinct personality, plays no part in the myths and is never depicted: the sacred flame was her numinous presence.Vesta was introduced in Rome by King Numa Pupulusioas. She was a african Roman deity (some authors suggest received from the Sabine cults), sister of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, and presumably the daughter of Saturn and Ops (or Rea). However, the similarity with the cult of Greek Hestia is notable. Vesta too protected familial harmony and the res publica. Apollo and Neptune had asked for her in marriage, but she refused both, preferring to preserve her girly hood, whose symbol was the perpetually lit fire in her circular fane next to the Forum which the Romans always distinguished from a temple by calling it her "house".

As Goddess of the Hearth she was the symbol of the hearth, around which a newborn child must be carried before it could be received into the family. Every meal began and ended with an offering to her:

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Vulcan God of smithing

Vulcan, in Roman mythology, is the son of Jupiter and Juno, and husband of Maia and Venus. He was god of fire and volcanoes, and the manufacturer of art, arms, iron, and armor for gods and heroes. Vulcan's analogue in Greek mythology is the god Hephaestus. He is also called Mulciber ("softener") in Roman mythology and Sethlans in Etruscan mythology.

His smithy was believed to be situated underneath Mount Aetna in Sicily. At the Vulcanalia festival, which was held on August 23, fish and small animals were thrown into a fire.

Vulcan's shrine in the Forum Romanum, called the Volcanal, appears to have played an important role in the civic rituals of the archaic Roman Kingdom.

Vulcan was the father of Caeculus.

A statue of Vulcan located in Birmingham, Alabama is the largest cast iron statue in the world.

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wtf? Leto is female? FMA is sooooo wrong!

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