Penates

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The penates are the household gods who watch over the penus - the larder the household store of a home. They were originally honoured at the family hearth but later came to include also the particular deities a family worshiped.

In the public cultus the original penates were the Discouri, Castor and Pollux, whom Aeneas brought to Italy with him. And archeological finds confirm this.

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    Les origines et le développement du culte des pénates à Rome (Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome)

    Dubourdieu, Annie. (1989). Diffusion de Boccard. ISBN 272830162X
    Unknown Binding, 566 pages
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