Lares : originally Roman deities of cultivated fields worshipped at crossroads. Over time they became both household gods, worshipped as centre of family cult, as well was Gods of the national religion who protected the country against its enemies.
... गार्हपत्यात् प्रणीयते प्रणयनादाहवनीयः प्राणः ॥३॥ 3) "But the fires of the breath keep watch in that sleeping city. The lower breath is the householder's fire and the breath pervasor the fire of the Lares that burneth to the southward. The main breath is the orient fire of the sacrifice; and even as the eastern fire taketh its fuel from the western, so in the slumber of a man the main breath taketh from ...
... or it could not maintain its existence. From this idea to the peopling of the world with innumerable mental & vital existences,—existences essentially vital like the Naiads, Dryads, Nereids, Genii, Lares & Penates of the Greeks and Romans, the wood-gods, river-gods, house-gods, tree-deities, snake-deities of the Indians, or mental like the intermediate gods of our old Pantheon, would be a natural and ...
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