Roman Pantheon

The Romans had a mighty pantheon of gods whom they looked to for everything under the sun.  From mighty Jupiter, king of the gods and master of all things, down to the lowly gods of hearth and home.  The Romans were a stridently religious people, but curiously they were not religious in the way we use the term religion today.
In today's world, your religion is a set of dogmatic statements which you hold to be metaphysically true.  To the Romans, this would have been strange.  Because for the Romans, religion was about practicality and utility rather than about lofty notions of cosmic truth and the afterlife. 
The Romans loved shrines.  They kept small shrines in their homes where their favored gods could be worshiped and prayed too.  They would also have figurines of lesser spirits, as well as the spirits of their ancestors (ancestor worship was very important in Roman culture, since Romans put great stress on the family as the center of society). 
The Romans also had a nifty idea of the republic as being divine or semi-divine in nature.  Because the republic was founded on laws and principles set down by Jupiter Himself, they felt that the republic was itself a divine institution (if this sounds familiar, it's because modern Roman Catholicism has the same way of thinking, except they use the word 'church' in place of 'republic'). 
Roman religion never truly died out - even after the rise of Constantine and reforms of Theodosius, the Romans kept their mythology locked in stone and scroll for centuries.  In modern times, many native Italians are now, once again, beginning to offer prayers to Jupiter, Minerva, Mars and more. 
== References: ==
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YslQz6wH_Wo
-http://www.roman-empire.net/religion/religion.htmlCategory:Pagan
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