Explore: Cacus (roman Deity)

cattle. Caca, an archaic fire goddess and "proto-Vesta"; the sister of Cacus. Cacus, originally an ancient god of fire, later regarded as a giant. Caelus

cultivated as a deity in recognition of her service to the god. In his conceptual approach to Roman deity, Michael Lipka gives Cacus/Caca as one of the

Carandini opines that Cacus and Caca were the sons of Vulcan and of a local divine being or a virgin as in the case of Caeculus. Cacus and Caca would represent

This is a list of deities in fire worship. Nyambe, god of the sun, fire and change Nzambia, NZambi, Zambia a Kikongo Mpungu|Nzambi Mpungu, 1st half or

chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until Christianity became the dominant religion of the Empire. In Roman mythology

Macrobius. The tricephalous deity represented near Hercules in Etruscan tombs and reflected in the wise of the killing of Cacus would correspond to the features

indigitamenta, the list of deities maintained by Roman priests to assure that the correct divinity was invoked for rituals. Vulcanalia Vesta Cacus Great Fire of Rome

suffix -ka; and the Latin inimical giant Cācus is depicted as a non-Indo-European aborigine (incola), hostile to Romans and Greeks alike. According to Martin

significant site in Roman mythology. In Virgil's Aeneid, a cave on the Aventine's rocky slope next the river is home to the monstrous Cacus, killed by Hercules

Hercules had a number of myths that were distinctly Roman. One of these is Hercules's defeat of Cacus, who was terrorizing the countryside of Rome. The