The Romans were polytheistic, believing in many gods and goddesses. Their religion started before the BC era in Rome. While there are no modern believers, ancient Romans worshipped gods like Jupiter, king of the gods, Juno, goddess of marriage, and Venus, goddess of love and beauty in temples and by keeping statues in their homes.

2. The Romans didn’t have a religion
because they believed in lots of Gods
and Godesses. They had many Gods
and Godesses so they are polytheistic.
That means that they had more than
one God or Goddess.

3. The ancient Romans that believed in
Roman Gods and Godesses didn’t really
a name have because they believed in
many Gods plus Godesses.

4. Where did the religion start? : No one
knows when their Religion started. But all
we know is that it started before BC.( BC
stands for before Christ )

5. There are probably no believers today.
Because the religion started along time
ago.

6. The believers lived in Rome.

7. There are temples which are the holy
places .There are little statues of Gods
and Goddesses in houses. They are the
holy objects.

8. Jupiter is the King of all the Gods and
Goddesses in Rome. He Also Protected
The Roman lands.

9. Jupiter’s wife Juno was worshipped by
married women.

10. Venus was the goddess of love and
Beauty.

11. Diana the goddess of moon and hunting
guarded young girls and animals

12. Neptune god of the sea, sent
earthquakes and terrible storms.

13. Apollo is the God of light and music.

14. Minerva was the Goddess of wisdom.

15. Pan was the God of the mountainside,
pastures, sheep and goats.

16. Vesta was the Goddess of roman homes,
her prietestesses tended a holy flame in
a temple in the forum in Rome.

17. Dis (Pluto) was the God of the underworld.

19. Hadrian built a great temple to all the
Gods – The Pantheon. After an animal
had been sacrificed to the Gods, a
priest, called the ‘haruspex’, examined
its liver. If it was diseased, bad luck was
on the way. Roman people Decorated
their homes with magic symbols,

20. And hung good luck charms round Children’s necks They
believed that they could foretell the future by observing
animals, birds, insects and even the weather! For example,
bees were a sign of happiness but a hooting owl foretold
danger. Some of the world’s first Christians lived in Rome.
But until AD313 Christianity was banned in the Roman
Empire. Christians met secretly, in underground path ways
called catacombs, to say prays and hold service of
Worship to their God. They also used the catacombs as a
burial place. Roman men and woman could ask there
gods to Curse there enemies they rote there enemies
names, plus curse words on metal of pottery and left them
at temples. They hope that the gods would see these
messengers, and harm the people named in them.

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