…Other great deities without Greek counterparts include Janus, the goddess of beginnings and gates, the earth goddess Tellus, Flora, the goddess of flowering, and Pomona, the goddess of fruition, all of whom governed limited areas. Unlike the Greek gods, these early Roman gods were not concrete beings with vivid individual contours, but were understood as divine powers numen, as wills and functions hidden within phenomena, and were treated with extremely careful and sometimes complicated ceremonies. However, their births were never mentioned, and marriages between gods, and therefore their genealogies were never an issue. For this reason, it is often said that Roman religion had rituals but no myths. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "numen" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…そのほか,ギリシアに対応神のない大神格で,物事の初めと門とをつかさどるヤヌス,大地女神テルスをはじめ,開花の神フロラ,結実の神ポモナ等々限られた領域を管掌する神々まで枚挙にいとまない。 これら初期ローマの神々はギリシアの神々とは異なって,個性的輪郭のあざやかな具象的存在者ではなく,神威ヌメンnumenとして,現象の内に潜む意志とその機能として把握され,きわめて慎重な,ときに煩瑣な儀礼をもって対されたが,その誕生が語られることもなければ,神々どうしの結婚も,したがってその系譜が問題とされることもなかった。それゆえしばしば,ローマの宗教には祭儀はあるが神話はない,などといわれるのである。… ※「numen」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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