So I was wondering if there are any Deities/Gods to pray to for forgiveness, salvation and guidance, aswell as how to pray to them properly. I'm 16 and very new to Roman Paganism.

Pretty much what the title says, I was wondering what are the best sources for me to look into Veneficum / Veneficium (the art of the poisons)

Just curious as to where everyone’s from? I’m from Croatia, and I currently live in Canada. I moved here five years ago, so I can attend high school and currently going to university. I plan on going back to Europe after I’m done with my degree. Can’t say NA is my cup of tea, and besides, not enough Romans around here😜

On Monday I visited Montjuïc, called by the Romans "Mons Iovis" (Mount of Jupiter), perhaps because, as happened with Mount Ida, the Romans thought that the god visited the mountain or was very connected to it. But it is most likely that the mountain had a religious or spiritual function.

I felt very connected to Jupiter (the sky was cloudy and made me feel his presence even more), I took the opportunity to dedicate a prayer to him.

If you have the opportunity to visit Barcelona, ​​I recommend that you visit Montjuïc, the mountain is beautiful and full of monuments and old buildings such as a 17th century castle.

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There are a few ancient romans I find intriguing and also deserving of acknowledgement

Is there any tradition of honouring the dead, in this case ancient Roman dead as either as a hero for the hero cult or something else?

And no, I don't mean the imperial cult.

Just interested in this kind of topic.

what the title says, im a hellenic polytheist and i want to also worship the roman gods. what is the structure for giving offerings? are there any rituals i need to do as well? please help!!! tysm in advance

I have struggled to find an answer to this question so sorry if this is obvious. I work long shifts in winter and I start work before the sun rises and quit work after the sun has set. Can I offer during my work week in these conditions or do I have to wait until the weekend? I am used to offering daily and it's uncomfortable to skip days. I am attempting to be a reconstructionist so I would like to do things the way they were done in the past.

I have a bit of trouble understanding the different concepts and names for the "soul" in roman practice, I know we have a Mens (Mind), but the concepts of Numen / Anima get me all mixed up, is the Numen like an irradiation of the spirit and the Anima the literal spirit? Or is it that the Numen is the spirit, and the Anima is like a blow of life? (Like "animation" or "animated") would suggest) (ps: also, Anima would be the name for the goddess of the soul, compared to the Helenic Psyché)

Hello! So I've been worshiping some Roman gods for 5 years now and I want to start worshipping the Lares as well because I wanna get into ancestry worship.

So, as far as I know, the Lares Familiares are the spirits of your ancestors and they also work as tutelary deities. So my questions are:

1. What's the difference between this and a genius/iuno?

2. Do they have a name? If they don't, how do you call upon them?

3. When creating the artwork for a lararium, I know they usually would paint a genius in between two lares. How do you decide how they look like?

4. Would you also put statues of the gods in the lararium or would you have separate shrines for that?

Also if someone could recommend some bibliography on just this topic that are easy to understand for my tiny pea brain I would appreciate it. I've read books on Roman religion in my language (Spanish) but they don't really explain this in detail.

Thanks!

Well, I'm starting out in Roman religion, I'm getting some sources but I'm not sure which themes and subjects to study first, can you give me some tips please?

Have you ever prayed away from your Lararium, maybe on a plane or at work? How did you go about it? Do you feel it was effective?

I've been studying paganism for a while, I haven't found my way yet I think, but lately I've been taking an interest in Roman paganism, and I'd like some tips on how to get started, please.

hi there i am just wanting to see what people think would be some interesting deities to read about

Does Anyone worship Quirinus, either as part of Your personal Household Gods as a whole, as a Patron deity, or You have a devotional relationship with Him?

I'm curious to hear what You would be willing to share. While Mars isn't stepping out of My life by any means, He is stepping aside and is wanting Me to get to know Quirinus more. I'm having a hard time keeping anything I find about Him straight in My head, as it seems hard for Anyone to really delve deep into His stuff, or at least that's the vibe I got from reading what I could find so far.

I recently became interested in worshipping/working with Janus. He's the god of gates, doorways, transitions, beginnings and endings.

When I read up about him, I felt the desire to pray to him. I'm trying to move to another country right now and I'm hoping that I can start a new life there with my bf.

Do any of you worship him? I would like some advice on what I could present as offerings to him.

Thanks in advance.

So I was raised Catholic but I no longer follow it, I feel more drawn to roman Paganism and was wondering if anyone could help me understand where to start and how to pray properly and justly to the Gods. I'm 16 if that helps. When i do pray it's usually when i'm in bed crying myself to sleep and I end up begging anygod that can hear me to help... Anyhow, any advice + tips, not just about prayer but in general? tbh i feel lost in faith.... i've never been able to 100% belive in such a power, but now more than ever I need to understand it and feel it, that true belief in such. I need guidence from the Gods.

Any god of crows/ravens? Eiither In Etruscan, Sabine or Roman pantheons?

I’m very new to Roman Paganism. My background is in Theistic Satanism and Germanic Paganism. I’ve struggled with context in my previous paths. What attracts me to Roman Paganism are a few assumptions which I hope are correct:

1. Roman Paganism was practiced at a level of cultural sophistication similar to the modern day in comparison to Germanic, Celtic, or Slavic Paganism.

2. More is known about how Roman Paganism was practiced, so there is less to reconstruct in comparison to other forms of Paganism. We also know more about the many ways in which the old Roman Pagans viewed the Gods and how they viewed morality because they wrote down a lot of things which survive today.

3. The gods of the pre-Christian European, near-Eastern, and northern African people were known by and accounted for by the old Roman Pagans.

Are my assumptions correct? I’m extremely new to this and would appreciate some constructive criticism.

Are there any Roman gods that are connected to Roosters? Or Greek for that matter, but I'd rather know about any Roman connections.

I was going about My business today with My brother, taking care of stuff to make sure I get to keep My medical insurance as a Blind person, and I was thinking of a question I was planning on divining for later today when I got home and got some rest, as I've been walking off an on all morning and early afternoon.

Before we headed into the building for My local Department of Health and Human resources, I heard a Rooster Crow almost directly in front of Me. Actually, the Rooster was far away from Me, from where I was walking at the time, I just meant that the direction the sound came from was directly ahead.

Roosters are fairly rare for that particular area of My state, so I was suprised to hear one. As a Blind person, I don't do Augury by the flight of birds, but tend to focus more on the calls, crys, and general sounds of birds.

First, about a personal Lararium. Is it uncommon to give credence or set aside a presence within a Lararium for an Emperor? Has anyone done this? How do you honor their memory?

Second, Roman Pagan practices. As I've come to understand it, the Ancient Romans cared more about proper and alligned ceremonial/ritual rites rather than aligned belief behind the ceremonies and rituals themselves. Is this correct? Can anyone provide literary works that gloss over what these rituals and ceremonies looked like?

How would i do this? im a roman pagan but also want to practise the hero cult but all i see online is the greek way but is there a roman specific way, or anything that i could reconstruct it at least?

Hi, I am coming from background of mainly worshipping greek gods, and while I acknoledge the similarities, I feel as though greek gods are not "fit" for me since I couldn't help the feeling of shame for 'forsaking' my culture and identity as italian. I am also interested in Stregoneria; and i was wondering if the two combine at all? It is incredibly hard to find any information on Stregoneria or any helpful information on how to start learning on roman pantheon. I do not go near many social medias depicting it as once again, I feel stupid for learning about it through foreigners. So, in this I ask, how do I shake this feeling? Do Stregoneria and Roman paganism go hand-in-hand? How should I get started? What resources should I use (apart from experience) to learn?

I would like to share with you all my views and opinions regarding the gods, the relationship we have with them, and similar. Note that this is a very compressed text on my complete opinion. First, what are the gods? I find it very hard to believe they possess any human form, or anything life-like to begin with. Cicero made this very clear in his “Ad Natura Deorum”. So, what are they made of, and what do they look like? I don’t know, though I do find reason in believing they have to be made of some tangible and physical particle (or even a discrete pocket of energy), in order for them to interact with the mortal realm. Furthermore, I find reason in assuming the various successions of the gods, but I will come back to this later on. If we will ask “for what purpose do they serve then?”, I find reason in two arguments. 1) The gods preside over nature, animate and inanimate, and are those who are not the creators, rather the organizers. 2) Humanity proved very useful to the gods, in that they received/receive sacrifices. So, what the gods set in motion to benefit us pails in comparison with the utility of sacrifice, and what they get out of it. To provide an example, Sol is the one who organized atoms, the strong and weak nuclear forces, as well as gravity. How did he do this? By providing the necessary elementary particles from Chaos to form the hydrogen atom. Sol is who also presides over gravity, and the associated forces. Now, I do not deny the credibility of string theory, or of loop quantum gravity, but even those had to be “organized”. It is from this that Terra Mater came to be. Sol provided the building blocks, Terra Mater assembled them. Now, I don’t mean to be pretentious here and say that Terra Mater only presides over Earth. She presides over all celestial bodies that are solid, but not a star. To that extent, black holes are also presided over by Sol. The same goes for human nature. Just as Mars presides over the warring nature of man, so does Volupta preside over more sensual aspects.

So, does this mean man is created in their image? No, man is created in the image of nature, with evolutionary steps provided by the primordial gods to reach, and eventually serve the gods. So, with the arrival of Abrahamic religions, why haven’t the gods plunged the world into chaos, just as the universe was before it came to be? Two reasons: 1) the worship of gods, and the giving of appropriate sacrifice has never really ceased. 2) They have plunged humanity into a semi-chaos (ie. the dark ages, modernity etc.), but humanity is meant to rise out of it, and reclaim its pax with the gods. Think of the day and night cycle here.

Anyways, this just my opinion, and you don’t have to entertain it, but I just wanted to share it!

I was wondering where the community fell in the great Reconstructionist versus witchcraft/new age divide. I'm not the strictest Reconstructionist in the world, but I am generally historical and personally have little use for the occult/witchcraft community.

I've been at this for a while. 20 years ago it was fairly common for Hellenists to blend Hellenism with ceremonial magick. These days, it's Witch Tok, and if you head over to the Hellenic subreddits, that seems to be the majority of what you'll see.

There's always been less of that in Roman paganism. We have problems with LARPers, but not so much with the occult or witchcraft community trying to coopt our religion. Roman religion must be too boring or too patriarchal to coopt. 🤷

Anyway, what are your thoughts? Where do you stand?

Hello everyone,

I would love to ask if you know any good source where I could find an invocation text or invocation ritual of Jupiter? It can be in Latin or English.

I have tried to search through a few books and also the internet, but could not find much on this topic.

I will be grateful for any tips!

I am wondering, are there any gods who are represented by coins or currency (not wealth but coins or similar) and any gods of decision making or such? I was thinking of Juno or Minerva but I don't know if they don't fit the questions 100% so maybe they'd be similar enough, but are there any other gods of the similar sort to the two questions I listed?

I'm unsure of this so I was wondering if anyone in this subreddit could help.

Any suggestion could be Roman , Sabine or Etruscan or something like that. I'm unsure myself so I'm open to any suggestion or idea

I appreciate any help given

So I usually honour the Lares at every morning I can do ritual (not every morning sadly) but I'm worried I'm doing it ag the wrong time.

I give my Genius part of an offering as well (I try to give it a little bit of attention when I can) and the Di Manes I give part of an offering as well (since they are friendly spirits) .

Is the morning a bad time to do so? What are better times or such? Are any of the soltices/equinoxes good? Also is parentalia a good time to honour them a lot more especially? Are there other days?

I can only offer water at the time but what are good offerings to give them? I know to put the altar and offerings to them where there is more interaction or busyness- like the centre of attention.

Are there any phrases or greetings that I can give them? Is Salve(te) good to use? (Honestly asking this)

I'm asking because I only honour them in the morning with water and ritual but wasn't sure if there was more that could be done

Salvate Omnes.

My ancestors seem to come from the lands on both sides of the Rhine, so I have decided to honor Gallo-Roman and Germanic deities.

I honor Mercury, Apollo, Jupiter, Minerva (and Vesta) among the Romans. I also honor Rosmerta who was honored in Gaul and in the Germanic provinces, and I honor Wodan and Donnar among the Continental German gods.

Of course, I also propitiate the ancestors and local spirits regularly.

The biggest holidays for me are Samhain (to honor the ancestors) and Yule (to honor Wodan and the Wild Hunt).

If I need metaphysics outside of Roman religion, I tend to look to Heathenry rather than to Greek philosophy. The concept of the Well and the Tree, and Wyrd, makes a lot of sense to me. And I find the Havamal both inspiring and down to earth.

I look forward to having good discussions here.

A philosophy discussion group has been meeting around once a month to talk about ancient philosophical texts. This weekend, we are going to talk about Book III of Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) and it seems appropriate to mention it here in case anyone is interested.

More information, including the time (around 24 hours from now), links to the text, and the Zoom link may be found here:

https://groups.io/g/NovaRomaPhilosophy/message/136

In the interest of full disclosure, this philosophy group is affiliated with Nova Roma, of which I know not everyone here is a fan. I hope it's all right to occasionally mention Nova Roma's activities here, so long as they are related to Roman polytheism and open to non-members.

Has anyone heard of anything like Etruskan Runes? I recently came across someone briefly who practiced with a system they called Etruskan Runes. I didn't have enough time to question them about it because I'm curious. Any research I try to do into anything related on my own yields little to no results., so I'm a bit skeptical about the whole thing, but on the other hand I'm wanting to be open minded about the possibility of it.

I'm a multitraditionalist Polytheist and I practice Rune Divination and Magic in some of the other traditions I practice. So yeah, I'd be excited to learn about something similar from the Italic region, if it actually exists. Especially as I'm trying to find more acccessible means of performing any kind of divination for My practice in Roman Polytheism.