Lares Gregorjanski – male
Lares Roman tutelary gods protecting the household and the family. The Lar familiaris was venerated at the hearth, and his image was set up in a small shrine (lararium). In the Empire period, the lares were imagined in the dual rather than the plural, as pairs of dancing youths, each of whom held up a wreath or a horn. The lares compitales were the tutelary gods of cross-roads, while the lares viales ensured a safe return for travellers. |
Luna Gregorjanska – female
Luna (Latin moon) Roman goddess of the moon, whose chief temple was on the Aventine Hill. She was equated with the Greek → Seléne, and, like the latter, she took on traits of → Hekáte. Like → Sol, the sun-god, she was supposed to be the protector of charioteers in the circus ring. |
Leda Gregorjanska – female
Leda In Greek myth, the mother of → Kastor and Polydeukes; also of → Heléne, after Zeus had mated with her in the form of a swan. It is possible that Leda developed from an ancient earth and mother goddess in Asia Minor; there was
a Lycian word lada meaning ‘woman’. |
