Larvae
Larvae are malevolent or dangerous spirits of the dead in Roman religious and literary language, often overlapping with lemures but…
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Culture or Region: Ancient Roman traditions
Lemures
Lemures are Roman restless dead associated especially with the household and the May festival of Lemuria.
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Genii are Roman generative and tutelary powers associated with individuals, households, groups, places and the continuity of identity.
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Silvani are the plural manifestations or localized forms of Silvanus, Roman powers associated with woods, fields, flocks, boundaries and different…
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Genius Loci is the Roman indwelling or guardian spirit of a specific place, represented in inscriptions and art as a…
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