@AdmiralHip well yeah, you want to keep gods & ancestors happy! So you give them food, and pottery, and weapons, &c &c.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore although that is very standard in paganism I would say.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip depends on the pagans, eh? Classical era Rome didn't seem so...domestic...in its offerings!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore The Lar is strange. No one knows what it is, not even the Romans knew its origins. Might have been an ancestor worship thing2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip seems likely, esp if they ever spent time burying their dead under their houses.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore UH OH did someone tell you they did that?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore the Romans were big on the boundary between life and death. No dead within the city limits. One exception was an emperor.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip right, I was more wondering about pre-Roman Rome, as it were. Everybody starts somewhere.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore it's hard to know, the Bronze Age "Romans" left few traces. I suspect they always had a thing about the dead though.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore festivals of the dead, the gods associated with death, etc. in both Greece and Rome, seem to be some of the oldest stuff2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@civilwarbore and also the most misunderstood. While they wanted to honour their dead, there was a great taboo against it as well.
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