Do you have a favorite Roman god?

[meisenimverbis]

The Romans had a lot of gods and godesses... Most unknown to us, a few unknown even to them by the first century CE... What's your favourite?

(Here's a list.)

 

[Bitmap]

Ceres and Minerva.

 

[Pacifica]

This one, maybe?

More seriously, I don't really have a favorite god or goddess.

 

[Issacus Divus]

Mars me adiuvat.

 

[Issacus Divus]

That 'twas a quote, for the one I adiuvō is Iuppiter.

 

[Bitmap]

That 'twas a quote, for the one I adiuvō is Iuppiter.

That means that you are Jupiter's favourite god.

 

[Issacus Divus]

I sure am.

 

[Godmy]

Jovis pater obviously! (then maybe Mars, since I'm very indirectly named after him)

 

[Issacus Divus]

But seriously, Iuppiter is my favorite. He's just too Indo-Europeanly cool to me.

 

[Bitmap]

(then maybe Mars, since I'm very indirectly named after him)

Cool, me too.

 

[Godmy]

Ah, never thought of that connection

 

[Dantius]

My favorite is Rediculus, just because the name is pretty "ridiculous"

He's obscure enough that he's not on the original list, but he exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rediculus

 

[Laurentius]

This one, maybe?

 

[Dantius]

Since the only citation is from the Christian writer Arnobius, who knows if Limus actually exists as a god

 

[Dantius]

Mellona, the goddess of bees and honey, is another one mentioned by Christian writers

 

[Laurentius]

Priapus is one of my favourites.

 

[Hawkwood]

This is a good question and difficult to answer. I shall think on it.

 

[meisenimverbis]

This is a good question and difficult to answer. I shall think on it.

It is. I hope one god won't be offended with you picking another...

 

[Dantius]

you might start another Trojan war Hawkwood, beware

 

[Issacus Divus]

I'm feeling a kind of phthonus spirit in here