Penates : Di Penates, household gods of Romans & other Latinos. Associated with other deities of the house, such as Vesta & the Lares (q.v.), they were worshipped as protectors of households & of the state.
... 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 inevitable ...
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