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Identifier: storyofancientna00west (find matches)
Title: The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Westermann, William Linn, 1873-1954
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York : London : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sacred. TheLatin word for house-door was janua, and the Romansworshipped the house in the form of the god Janus. Ata later time the god was depicted as double-faced, lookingboth backward and forward, for a gate or door allows oneto pass either in or out. The hearth and its fire were wor-shipped as the goddess Vesta. The common fire of thestate was kept continually burning by the Virgins of Vestain an old round temple dedicated to her. These and otherhousehold gods tell us of the immense importance of thefamily organization among the early Romans. 326. Farm Gods.—Next in importance came the godswho protected the fields and farms. Saturn, the god of thesowing, helped the farmer when he planted the seed. Thegoddess Ceres watched over the growing grain. Flora wasprotectress of all plants and flowers. Pomona was thegoddess of the fruit-trees. Terminus was the god of boun-daries, those of the fields and those of the state. Tellus(Earth) was the goddess who lived in the soil of the fields.
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