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| "Nodder(s)"; spirits in early Roman religion that inhabit and control the operation of individual things or processes; could be summoned to work for human beings through the correct observation of ritual (the sacrificium). |
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| Well-known Roman numen (q.v.) of passageways; represented as a man with two faces, one looking forward, the other back. |
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| Original Roman numen (q.v.) of the sky; equated by the Romans with Zeus. |
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| Original Roman numen of the women and the family; equated with the Greek Hera. |
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| Original Roman numen of wheat; equated with the Greek Demeter. |
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| Roman numen of the wood, women and childbirth; equated with the Greek Artemis. |
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| Roman name given to Hermes; name comes from the Latin word for "merchandise." |
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| Original god of volcanic fire; equated by the Romans with the Greek Hephaestus. |
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| Original Roman numen of water; came to be identified with the Greek Poseidon, the god of the sea. |
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Original protector god of the flocks; Roman Ares. |
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| Etruscan numen of handicrafts; identified with Athena. |
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"Kindly one"; the numen of terror produced by isolated places. |
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| Roman numen of freshwater springs, gardening, and thereby fertility; the Roman Aphrodite. |
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Earliest foreign hero cult in Rome. |
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Roman numina that protect the people in a household. |
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| Roman numina of the cupboard in a Roman house; protect food and implements of the household. |
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The Roman Hestia; protectress of the house and hearth, becomes a national cult, which reflects the centrality of the family in Roman social and political order, in which the state was conceived of as a very large family. |
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| "Loyalty, duty"; critical concept in Roman social and political order; embodied by Aeneas in Vergil's Aeneid. |
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| Son of Aeneas; founds Alba Long and is the ancestor of the Julian line of Roman Emperors. |
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Queen of Carthage; helps and is then abandoned by Aeneas. |
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| Local king in Italy who opposes allowing Aeneas and his people to settle. |
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