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> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:58:03 -0700 (PDT), Kevrob <
kev...@my-deja.com>
> wrote:
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> >On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:50:44 PM UTC-4, lal_truckee wrote:
> >> On 8/28/15 5:07 PM, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:07:26 -0600, David Johnston <
Da...@block.net>
> >> > wrote:
> >> ...
> >> >>
> >> >> Rome had way more gods. Rome had thousands of gods. Most of them are
> >> >> just forgotten. I mean who remembers Cloacina, goddess of sewers?
> >> >
> >> > Hundreds, yeah, but I'm not sure they had thousands. And we don't
> >> > remember some of the most important (Terminus, Bona Dea) because they
> >> > didn't match up to the Greek pantheon, and were therefore not
> >> > considered suitable for serious literature.
> >> >
> >> > Now, the Hindus have thousands. Hundreds of thousands.
> >>
> >> And Mormons have millions, each with his own planet.
> >> (I would have liked a ST TOS visit to a Mormon planet episode.)
> >
> >The Romans had all those lares and penates (dii familiares.)
> >(Nulla domus impleta carere.)
>
> Ah, good point. Even though they're called "household gods," though,
> I tend to think of them as a different class of spirits.
>
> But yes, if you count them, then the Romans did indeed have many
> thousands.
And then there are the Japanese with their Kami . . .