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EternalFighterGirl OP t1_itud559 wrote
This goddess also, according to the linked Wikipedia article, has two daughters that are also goddesses for Malaria-specific fevers.
bolanrox t1_ituh7zk wrote
The bullshit artist!
removed_bymoderator t1_ituhkkm wrote
Did you bullshit last week?
yesacabbagez t1_itvybji wrote
Stand up philosopher
bolanrox t1_itvz32u wrote
yeah a bullshit artist
Captain__Spiff t1_itug39l wrote
The goddess Febris belongs to the apotropaic (turning away) deities (Lat. Dii averrunci) wich is interesting when you look at the picture. Her legs and her torso are twisted relative to each other. Is there a relation?
EternalFighterGirl OP t1_itwdgmd wrote
ButWhat about the fabric thing shaped like an 8?
EternalFighterGirl OP t1_itugxxy wrote
IDK maybe an artistic choice
Loveisaredrose t1_itumq4c wrote
She looks like she'd give you fever for free.
EternalFighterGirl OP t1_itunr7a wrote
That's what she does. People feared her.
sacredblasphemies t1_itv5uav wrote
Hindus have a goddess named Sheetala Maa who is worshipped to protect against smallpox.
EternalFighterGirl OP t1_itv9oa0 wrote
They also had a fever god: Jvarasura
Black-Sam-Bellamy t1_ituf3q0 wrote
Proto Nurgle
ryschwith t1_itvp8ek wrote
Technically I think Proto-Nurgle would be Nergal, the Mesopotamian god of plagues and “inflicted death.”
EternalFighterGirl OP t1_itufkq5 wrote
Care to explain?
Black-Sam-Bellamy t1_itug342 wrote
Are you familiar with WH40K?
EternalFighterGirl OP t1_itug7qf wrote
No, never heard of it
Black-Sam-Bellamy t1_itugnly wrote
Well, there's a whole mythos, but one of the deitys in that lore is of Nurgle, the god of disease and decay
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coffedrank t1_itz7ivt wrote
doesnt mal aria in latin mean bad air?
bonniex345 t1_iu5ybwa wrote
I have a character who is the personification of fever in my story, I called her Febris (means fever in Latin) before I found about this goddess lol
GeneralNathanJessup t1_itx5ed7 wrote
The best protections for Malaria is sickle-cell. https://sickle-cell.com/clinical/malaria
mineturnax t1_iu83eha wrote
For me Romans have only one god all the time (Not god actually one religion or belief.) It's called pragmatism. They adopted everyhing that they can use even gods and religions.
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removed_bymoderator t1_itucxgn wrote
>Comicus : But we Romans are rich. We've got a lot of gods. We've got a god for everything. The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that's coming quickly.
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