#di selecti

[theogonyofbeauty]

In some versions Hades is considered the master of the goddesses of Fate, not his brother Zeus and the god who designates the end and origin of all things and orders the alternation of birth and destruction, the arbiter of life and death.

[theogonyofbeauty]

Libera is a fertility goddess in the religion of ancient Rome. She became the female consort of Liber, also known as Liber Pater (the free father), a fertility god and guardian of the liberties of the common people.

Libera, sister or consort of Liber, was sometimes identified with Proserpina and sometimes with Ariadne.

[theogonyofbeauty]

Hades cared little about what happened in the world above, as his primary attention was ensuring none of his subjects ever left his domain.

[americangodstalk]

Random note about Roman gods

This is not really AG related, but it’s still about mythology so...

I was just thinking - contrary to the Greek mythology, which has a pretty stable system of “major gods” (aka the Twelve Olympians, or the Olympians as a whole), Roman mythology actually has several classifications of the “major gods”. 

You can actually go three ways. The triad way (aka the religious way), the Dii Consentes way (aka the artistic way) and the Di selecti way (aka the scholar way).

The “triad way” (that I call the religious way because it is a classification based on religious practices and buildings of the Roman) refers to the fact that three triads of main gods were identified. On one side, you have the Capitoline Triad, the three main gods worshipped in the temple of the Capitoline Hill (and at the center of Roman religion): Jupiter, king of gods, Juno his wife-sister, and Minerva, the wise goddess and daughter of Jupiter. Then, in front of this one, you had the Aventine Triad (worshipped on the Aventine Hill, the god of the plebeians and of agriculture, opposed to the patricians who were closer to the Capitoline triad): Ceres, Liber and Libera. And finally your have the “Archaic Triad” which is the reconstructed triad that was originally worshipped at the beginnings of Roman religion before evolving into the Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus. 

Following that, you have the Dii Consentes way (that I call the artistic way because it was the one used most by painters and poets). Based on the Twelve Olympians of Greek mythology, it established there were twelve main gods, organized in couples (that were either married, lovers or linked in some other form). Jupiter went with Juno, Neptune with Minerva, Vulcan with Vesta, Mercury with Ceres, Mars with Venus and Apollo with Diana. 

And finally you have the Di Selecti. This is the “scholar way” because it was a list devised by the famous Roman scholar Varro, who identified twelve main gods in the Roman religion. He mentions the twelve Dii Consentes mentionned above, so I won’t repeat them, and adds to the list: Luna, Sol, Orcus, Liber, Tellus, Genius, Saturn and Janus.