Consus
Roman · deity · regal · Recorded classification
Consus keeps what has been put away. His altar in the Circus Maximus was buried, dug out only for his festival and covered again afterwards — an altar that is itself stored, which is as neat a piece of ritual logic as Roman religion offers. On his day horses and mules were unyoked and garlanded. The Consualia is also where the foundation story puts the seizure of the Sabine women: Romulus advertised games, the neighbours came, and Rome got its wives.
Domains
- harvest
Powers
- to keep what has been stored underground until it is needed
Sources
- Consus is the Roman god of the stored harvest, worshipped at an underground altar in the Circus Maximus uncovered only for the Consualia, the festival at which the Roman foundation story places the seizure of the Sabine women.: Reference treatment of Consus, his subterranean altar and the Consualia. (secondary)