A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. It has been a common belief...

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and granaries. Each Roman home had a set of protective deities: the Lar or Lares of the household or familia, whose shrine was a lararium; the Penates who...

A toilet god is a deity associated with latrines and toilets. Belief in toilet gods – a type of household deity – has been known from both modern and...

Dimstipatis (mentioned by Jokūbas Lavinskis), is a masculine deity (genius loci). It is a household god, the guardian of houses and caretaker of the hearth...

(Slavic) Haltija/Tonttu (Finnish) Heinzelmännchen (German) Household deity Lithuanian household gods (list) Hungry ghost Jack o' the bowl (Swiss) Koro-pok-guru...

Candomblé. Gate guardian – Symbolic guardian at a military facility Household deity – Deity or spirit associated with the home Liminal being – Being that cannot...

believer. Di Penates Hestia Household deity Jowangsin is a Korean kitchen god. Kōjin is a Japanese kitchen god. List of deities Ông Táo is a Vietnamese kitchen...

dedicated to Ashapura Mata, the household deity of former Jadeja rulers of kutch State. She is also considered patron deity of Kutch. The village is located...

them with ancestor-deities, domestic Penates, and the hearth. Because of these associations, Lares are sometimes categorised as household gods, but some had...

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in Sicily. Hecate was one of several deities worshipped in ancient Athens as a protector of the oikos (household), alongside Zeus, Hestia, Hermes, and...

1550–1069 BCE), household deities like Taweret gained even more importance. Taweret's image has been found on an array of household objects, demonstrating...

identified with local deities as different aspects or names of the same divinity. Hera was identified with various local mother deities. As an example, the...

List Fairy Tale (color) Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit Abodes and structures Fairy fort...

the free dictionary. Bogeyman Dobby (Harry Potter) Hob (folklore) Household deity Kobold Niuli A hob, is also flat metal shelf at the side or back of...

and the word assumptively also meant "household spirit" in MHG, and certainly something of a "household deity" in the post-medieval period (gloss dated...

Domestic Goddess may refer to: A female household deity Domestic Goddess (television), a planned cooking show hosted by Roseanne Barr that was canceled...

(English: /pɪˈneɪtiːz/ pin-AY-teez) were among the dii familiares, or household deities, invoked most often in domestic rituals. When the family had a meal...

since it is considered not to haunt a specific household. The story of propitiating a household deity for boons in Iceland occurs in the "Story of Þorvaldr...

List Fairy Tale (color) Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit Abodes and structures Fairy fort...

The Heimchen (sg., pl.; German: [ˈhaɪ̯mçən]) is a being from German folklore with several related meanings. In the first place, Heimchen (diminutive of...

Hanja: 廁神) is the toilet goddess of Korean mythology. Unlike better-known household deities such as Jowangshin, god of the hearth, her worship forms a minor part...

lesser deity (daemon) of classical ancient Greek religion and Graeco-Egyptian religion. In his original Greek form, he served as a household god, to...

Iratxoak (sing.: iratxo) are the imps of Basque mythology. Usually benevolent, they help with farming labours in the night if given presents of food. Galtxagorriak...

ancestor figurines rather than household deities, and that the "current interpretation of the teraphim as household deities suffers from a one-sided use...

Hittite, Palaic and Luwian pantheons. He was regarded as a protective household deity, and was additionally associated with metalworking. He appears in the...

Meldi Mata is a Hindu goddess and household deity who protects farmland. A legend says that she can grant any wish. She is mainly famous in the western...

The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes...

century, such as goblin, brownie, leprechaun and other instances of the household spirit type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground...