Meditations on the Roman Deities: A Guide for the Modern Practitioner is the second volume in the series entitled, “The Modern Roman Living Series,” by Lucius Vitellius Triarius. It provides the reader with a compendium of actual ancient Roman prayers, which relates the reader to the religious life of the ancient Romans and shows their trials and tribulations and how they are similar to ours today.
This book serves as an introduction to the Roman Pantheon and its numerous gods and goddesses, not just the “Famous 12” you learned about in grade school. It provides detailed information to the reader on the who’s, what’s, why’s, how’s and wherefore’s of the Roman deities and provides a solid reference base for you to incorporate them into your daily life and personal religious practices. It provides the reader with a comprehensive listing of documented prayers from antiquity on many different topics, gathered together in one place by deity, and provides a separate section for you to construct and record your own prayers to the divine.
Differing from the Greek religious thought, the ancient Romans believed that achieving a peaceful and harmonious balance in society—from the individual life to the household to the state—required maintaining a positive relationship with the gods and goddesses to achieve that equilibrium, as the gods and goddesses walked among us daily. Each person was responsible for doing their part, whatever that part was.
As Symmachus believed, religious ideals, beliefs and practices varied among all individuals, just as it did with cities, and that there were many pathways to the divine. We all look up and see the same skies and same stars, the same sun and moon govern our days and nights, and we all experience and walk through the same countryside. As we all seek the divine, it matters not which pathway we follow, but that we follow a pathway.
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Meditations on the Roman Deities: A Guide for the Modern Practitioner is the second volume in the series entitled, “The Modern Roman Living Series,” by Lucius Vitellius Triarius. It provides the reader with a compendium of actual ancient Roman prayers, which relates the reader to the religious life of the ancient Romans and shows their trials and tribulations and how they are similar to ours today.
This book serves as an introduction to the Roman Pantheon and its numerous gods and goddesses, not just the “Famous 12” you learned about in grade school. It provides detailed information to the reader on the who’s, what’s, why’s, how’s and wherefore’s of the Roman deities and provides a solid reference base for you to incorporate them into your daily life and personal religious practices. It provides the reader with a comprehensive listing of documented prayers from antiquity on many different topics, gathered together in one place by deity, and provides a separate section for you to construct and record your own prayers to the divine.
Differing from the Greek religious thought, the ancient Romans believed that achieving a peaceful and harmonious balance in society—from the individual life to the household to the state—required maintaining a positive relationship with the gods and goddesses to achieve that equilibrium, as the gods and goddesses walked among us daily. Each person was responsible for doing their part, whatever that part was.
As Symmachus believed, religious ideals, beliefs and practices varied among all individuals, just as it did with cities, and that there were many pathways to the divine. We all look up and see the same skies and same stars, the same sun and moon govern our days and nights, and we all experience and walk through the same countryside. As we all seek the divine, it matters not which pathway we follow, but that we follow a pathway.