Lares Mythology
The Lares, sometimes also called are Roman deities original Etruscan (the Etruscan lord). They are deities peculiar to each family, the Lar familiaris is the god of the household that protects the entire family. They are celebrating the 11 Kalends of January (December 22) Cultural practices For their protection, they dedicated a seat in the house and they are offered food on the Lararium, the temple servant. The Romans put offerings such as food for the household gods. Originally, they were able to preside over the work of the fields , then watch over homes, domestic hubs and pens. Coarse wooden statues represent. They are the son of Mercury and Lara. The reviews were to place their offerings at their boss or lares, central gentile sacra. With the profound transformation of this relationship at the end of the Republic , Augustus recover this tradition to assimilate to the Lares Augusti and integrate them into the imperial cult. Virgil confuses Lare and Penates . There was a Lare and two Penates per household. The Lare, which "is concerned with everything related to home '(Ennius), formed a trilogy with Penates guardian, subject to Vesta. The Lares can be presented as an ambivalent nature: the word is the parent larva, "ghost, specter." According to Festus (273), the parties Compitales , "were hung in the intersections of models and figures of men and women made of wool, because, according to common opinion, this day was devoted to the infernal gods, that is called Lares (Lares quos vocant) they were offered as many models as there were heads of slaves, and as many figures as there were free people, so they saved the living and tinssent happy for these dummies and these dummies. " The Lares are still revered in some countries. References
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