Pales
The Roman pastoral goddess. Pales was the goddess of the pasture, and of flocks and herds. Her festival was held on April 21.
By Jimmy Joe
Roman Deities:
- • Jupiter
- • Mars
- • Quirinus
- • Juno
- • Minerva
- • Mercury
- • Janus
- • Diana
- • Venus
- • Cupid (Amor)
- • Vulcan
- • Neptune
- • Pluto (Dis)
- • Tellus (Terra Mater)
- • Saturn
- • Ops
- • Consus
- • Ceres
- • Proserpina
- • Liber
- • Bellona
- • Picus
- • Faunus
- • Bona Dea (Fauna)
- • Silvanus
- • Flora
- • Pales
- • Vertumnus and Pomona
- • Fornax
- • Egeria
- • Salus
- • Somnus
- • Oneiroi (Dreams)
- • Fortuna
- • Felicitas
- • Pax
- • Juturna
- • Fontus
- • Vesta
- • Penates
- • Lares
Faunus
The Roman god of the woodland. Faunus was the son of Picus and grandson of Saturn. Faunus was also the god of the fertility of the fields and flocks. Roman art always seemed to portray him as a satyr-like god, and he seemed to resemble Pan . His f...
September 10th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Epona
Epona was the a Romano-Celtic goddess of horses. Epona was known throughout Continental Europe, particularly worshipped by the Gauls in France and Italy. Her cult would later spread to Britannia (Britain). The Romans adopted the Gallic goddess as ...
November 3rd, 1999
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Jimmy Joe
Bona Dea (Fauna)
Bona Dea means the "Good Goddess". Bona Dea was often called Fauna. Bona Dea was the goddess of women. Men were excluded from her temple on the Aventine Hill. Her festival was held on May 1. As Fauna, she was the goddess of vegetation and fertilit...
September 10th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Ceres
The Roman goddess of corn. Ceres was also a mother-goddess as well as the goddess of fertility. Ceres was indistinguishable from Demeter, her Greek counterpart. Ceres was the mother of Proserpina (Greek Persephone ) by Jupiter (Zeus). Ovid wrote t...
September 10th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Pax
Pax was more of a spirit of peace than a goddess. The Romans often used the name of Pax during a certain period of Rome's greatest extent of their empire, such as Pax Romana ("Roman Peace") or Pax Augusta during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - AD 1...
September 10th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Salus
Salus was the Roman goddess of health. She was identified with Hygeia . Nothing more is known about Salus except that her festival was held on March 30.
September 10th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Ceres
Ceres: Myth of the Goddess of Grains Ceres, goddess of grains, is the Roman equivalent of Demeter in Greek mythology, and was the goddess of agriculture and harvest . She was the patron of farmers, and the goddess of the plebian, or working-class....
April 2nd, 2002
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Timeless Myths
Alaisiagae
Alaisiagae was the minor British goddess who was identified in homesteads in Northumberland in a shrine to Mars.
May 13th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Flora
The Roman goddess of flowers. Flora was also the goddess of the season of spring and fertility. Her name was given to all flowering plants. Flora was the consort of Zephyrus, god of the west wind. Legends said that it was Titus Tatius who introduc...
September 10th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Vertumnus and Pomona
Vertumnus was the Roman god of the garden and the orchard. Vertumnus was probably a god of Etruscan origin, named Voltumna . His consort named Pomona had similar functions. Pomona was the goddess of the garden and the orchard. The two deities had ...
September 10th, 2000
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Jimmy Joe