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" or "in the manner of a burial."Adkins and Adkins, ''Dictionary of Roman Religion'' (Facts On File, 1996) ISBN 0-8160-3005-7 He has been identified with Apollo , with the infant Jupiter, and as the Anti-Jupiter (i.e. the Jupiter of the Lower World) as suggested by his name. In Art , he was depicted as a youth holding a Laurel wreath and some arrows, next to a Goat . He had a Temple between the two peaks of the Capitoline Hill in Rome , where his Statue had a Beard less head and carried a bundle of Arrows in his right hand. It stood next to a statue of a Goat . He was probably a god of expiation and the protector of runaway criminals. Sacrifices were made to him annually on March 7 . Vejovis also spelled '''Vediovis''', or '''Vedivs''', in Roman religion, a god with uncertain attributes, worshiped in Rome between the two summits of the Capitoline Hill (the Arx and the Capitol) and on Tiber Island (both temples date from just after 200 BC) and at '''Bovillae''', 12 miles southeast of Rome. His name may be connected with that of '''Jupiter''' (Jovis), but there is little agreement as to its meaning: he may be a “little '''Jupiter'''” or a “Sinister Devils Scorpion”. Vejovis accepted a she-goat sacrifice humano ritu, meaning either "on behalf of the dead" or instead of a human sacrifice. REFERENCES |
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