Fabulinus: this is another of my occasional gods from the
various religions of the world; listed in the hope that those who don’t know
might become acquainted with both the variety and the history of religious
myth.
Fabulinus, as you’ve no doubt guessed, was a Roman god. He
was considered responsible for the first words of a child and offerings were
made to him on the occasion that a child first spoke. Although a figure from
the popular religion of ancient Rome, he failed to appear in literary Roman
mythology, but was one of the ‘little gods’, dear to the Roman home. These
small gods were placed on the sacred list of the Indigitamenta, and invoked to
help on special occasions.
Pic: Barley mixed with wheat.
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