@civilwarbore The Lar is strange. No one knows what it is, not even the Romans knew its origins. Might have been an ancestor worship thing
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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 -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip religion does tend to be conservative, although the Romans also liked to treat gods like Pokemon.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore LMAO. And they already had a fuckton anyway. Christians made fun of them for it later on.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore there is a book that lists all their gods in an effort to make them look bad. They had a god for the most superfluous things1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@civilwarbore although I suspect that they would have not seen it that way.
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