Lares
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Lares (Template:Pron-en, sing. Lar) – or archaically, Lases – were guardian deities in ancient Roman religion. Their origin is uncertain; they may have been guardians of the hearth, fields, boundaries or fruitfulness, hero-ancestors, or an amalgam of these.
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See also
- The Lares in Rome's Imperial cult
- Compitalia
- Genius
- Lemures
- Di Penates
- Manes
- Turan, the Etruscan love goddess
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