household deities
Domestic divine protectors
Household deities are gods or spirits believed to protect a home and its inhabitants.
Many cultures have traditions of these domestic guardians—Roman lares and penates, Chinese kitchen gods, Russian domovoi.
The term extends to figurative use for anyone or anything treated as sacred within a family: Football was a household deity in their home.
- genius lociGuardian spirit of location
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- shrinesSacred devotional sites
- ancestral shrinePlace honoring deceased relatives
- kamiShinto sacred spirits
good luck charm · ancestor worship · guardian spirits · folk religion · penates · hearth and home · gods · brownies · idols · worships · ancestral spirits · family altar · ritual offerings · altar offerings · sacred space · votive offerings · pantheon · talismans
household deitiessky gods
Deities ruling the heavens
Olympians · supreme beings · Zeus · Jupiter · thunder gods
household, house, hold, households, houses, housing, housed, housekeeper, housekeeping