An Introduction to the Ancient Roman Religion and Mythology
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- The Ancient Romans believed in a polytheistic religion that was ever developing as the Romans adopted gods, goddesses, and mystery cults from other cultures, most notably Greek and Etruscan. As the Roman Empire expanded, so did their religion, since they didn’t necessarily impose their beliefs on the people they conquered, but adopted parts of other cultures' religions that they liked, and incorporated them into their own.
Early in Roman mythology, there was Saturn, who corresponds to the Greek god Cronus, the titan father of the Greek gods Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter. The early triad of Roman cult deities transformed into Jupiter, Juno and Minerva who were equivalent to the Greeks Zeus, Hera and Athena. The goddess of love in Greek mythology, Aphrodite, became the Roman Venus, and Hades and Poseidon, the gods of the underworld and the sea, became the Roman Pluto and Neptune. The Greek goddess of the hunt Artemis became the Roman Diana, Ares the war god became the Roman god Mars, Dionysus the Greek god of wine, theatre and madness, became Bacchus, and Hermes, the messenger god, became Mercury. The only Greek Olympian god to keep his name was Apollo.
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- CHAPTERS -
0:00 Introduction
0:56 The Early Roman Religion
1:46 Roman Adoption of Foreign Deities
4:07 The Ancient Roman Pantheon
6:59 Roman Cults and Worship
9:51 Roman Influence on the Christian Church
11:34 Outro
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Do you know of religious practises that are borrowed from other cultures today?
Yes, for example, the religious practice of reciting prayers or singing hymns is reminiscent of ancient customs of spells, incantations, and divination. Is the sanctification of "holy water" by a Catholic priest not similar to magic from ancient pagan cultures?
Something similar occurred (a process sometimes called 'syncretism' ) with some original culture's religions in the American continent (over all in Spanish colonies) when Catholicism was brought during the colonial period.
Muslim women wear hijabs, just like Jewish women did before them.
Very interesting video, short and concise, thanks for sharing.
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I can’t wait to listen to this later after work
Excellent!!
Great video 👌
Thanks very much!
I’d like you to explain better what aspects of Roman catholic beliefs are borrowed, because I’ve heard very convincing arguments and evidence for it not being as widespread a thing as implied in the video yet I’m curious of what you know about the subject.
Please put the dates with the event , then it would be more helpful
Please do your own researches.
Please look into the book by Brian Muraresku “The Immortality Key.” I believe it could link to the Ellusyian cult.
Interesting, thanks for the suggestion!
I think you mean the Eleusinian cult. There are a number of books on this subject. One I read was "Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter" by Carl Kerenyi (1967). "Ancient Mystery Cults" (1987) and "Greek Religion" (1985) by Walter Burkert also discuss the Eleusinian Mysteries. Wikipedia has a very good entry on it. 🤔
This was interesting.
We are glad you think so, thanks for watching!
So enlightened
any reason why Apollo kept his name? Thanks for the vids Kelly ☺️
Because the other dieties were already present in the original roman pantheon centuries before the Roman conquest of Greece (those were all pan mediterranean gods derived from the Indo-European mythology), Apollo was the exception and therefore when the Romans adopted his worship they didn't have a latin counterpart and sticked to the Greek name.
@@Old_Harry7 thanks ☺️
The Roman version of Apollo is Helios, who represents the Sun. Some of the Roman gods are also used for the days of the week in Latin and languages which derived from it like Spanish. Tuesday is Martes, from Mars, Wednesday Miercoles from Mercury, Thursday is Jueves from Jupiter, and Friday is Viernes from Venus.
@@davidguilbertrozenman5025 Helios was the sun, not really a 1:1 Roman version of Apollo this is backed by the fact that Romans worshiped the 2 gods separately.
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They kept his name because the Romans keep consult the oracle of Delphi di Apollo , the holiest sanctuary of antiquity.
The other Greek gods they learned from the ancient Greek colonies in Italy ,the Magna Grecia.
All hail IVPPITER OPTIMVS MAXIMUS king of all the gods
There is alot of evidence that Diana was around before the Greek influence. So I wouldn't say she is just the same as Artemis
for the algorithm. More like supplement they were not really the same
Another thing is that early Roman religion was not animistic either as Jupiter was never seen as some nature spirit and neither was Mars or Minerva.Early Roman religion was a mix of polytheism and animism
9:45 Did Romans believe in reincarnations?
A recent hypnotic investigation has thrown up the following intriguing hypothesis: that the high priest of Jupiter in Rome was not human! For an account, see the Hypno-Archaeologist by Philip Ditchfield.
Interesting... Thanks for watching. 🙂
You left out Lucifer, the Roman god who ushers in the Light. Wonder what connection to Christianity this god had in Rome.
'only 20 broke their vows... that we know of ...' what happens in Rome stays in Rome right? 😎
Property tycoon Marcus Licinius Crassus once saved a Vestal Virgin he was involved with by the name of Licinia from being entombed alive - the punishment imposed on Vestals for unchastity - by successfully (and truthfully, Plutarch says) arguing that it was her villa he was pursuing!
Roman religion is absolutely NOT a rip of Greek religion because there are many Roman Gods that are not found in Greek religion
Maybe rephrase this so it makes more sense.
@joesdi Roman religion starting out was very different than Greek as they didn't use idols/effigies for one, and the religion was much more animistic than it was a few hundred years later for various reasons
I really think if the priests of Roman cults had gotten their act together and each written individual 'bibles' their cults would've had more staying power. Christianity's main selling point was the whole one god thing, and lots of reading material.
It's hard to say for sure, but definitely interesting to think about. Thanks for watching!
Why no mention of more ancient "Indo European" connections? Gods like Jupiter and Mars and Goddesses like Vesta, among others, have evidence of being tied back to the earlier Proto Indo Europeans, who the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Persians and more split off from. It's a disservice to the audience to omit this key fact.
it has no relation to topic
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Poor Pluto? You left out Saturn when listing the planets! 🙂
Secret SANGAS can translate into Secret CULTS ~ temples ~Shrines ~ Secret Organized Groups. Ok this is just translated Ideas 💡 around what CULTS translations means to those people who lived then ok 👌
Thanks for watching!
Liked the video until it spewed the same anti-catholic rhetoric.
even then it was all about control and politics. same reason for christianity but that also had the big fear factor added. all mythology, all interesting, all fake.
"fear factor?" In Christianity?
Uhhhh... Looks like somebody didn't pay very close attention in Sunday school.
Thank you love 💗 Om mani padme hum. SUNWUKONG appreciated this Educational video. The jewel 💎 in the lotus 🪷
You're so welcome. 🙂
I think it's all just a thinking and thoughts of human 🥲and nothing exists like thiss
Religion and mythology were important parts of ancient cultures. 🙂
Very interesting video, short and concise, thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it!