Wednesday, June 10, 2009

ROME'S RELIGIONS


Their is alot of religions in Rome. Some of the early religions are Fetishism,and Numia.

Fetishism and numia: fetishism was the belif that the magic ofdevine power of inammate obejects. But fetishism must hav every early developed into Animism.

Animism;the feeling of the sacrednessof the ocject into the sence of indweling spiritNuminia:the powers whitch the object of witch they worshiped
GODS:The Romams belived in many defferent gods and goddesses.They always had a god and goddess incharge for everithing.EX: Mars was the god of war.It ment that he wa aood fighter ans had his solders at his heart.In the year AD 312 something very important happened, something which should change Roman religion forever. The emperor Constantine the Great said he hada sign from the god of the Christians in a dream in the night before he had an important battle. Emperor Constantine won this battle and thereafter showed his gratitude to the Christian god by turning his entire empire over to this new religion.

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