How do you build a roman pagan shrine?

Question

I heard there is supposed to be a fire inside it is that true.

i think it was called a lanadium

Thanks a lot Doc

you lot don't seem to understand i want to build a alter myself

Answer 1

Depends on the shrine.

Not my area of expertise---I'm heathen, not pagan---but both Religio Romano and Hellenismos followers of my online acquaintance say they use a hibachi for sacrifices.

You're probably thinking of Hestia/Vesta, goddess of the hearth (in Greece and Rome, respectively) in whose observance the hearth fires of Greek and Roman homes were never allowed to go out. Early temples in both cultures took the form of a "hearth hall," built around a central fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hestia

Answer 2

check out http://www.novaroma.org/main.html under the religion section for instructions and ideas.

A personal altar can be most anything, including a shelf on the wall, a niche or the top of a bookcase with specific items on the shelf.

The continual fire would be to Vesta and tended to by the Vestal virgins. For other deities or a general altar - a small candle or clay oil lamp (better) that is lit while you are worshiping works.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

for Vesta there would be a continuous fire tended by virgin priestesses
a 'templum" was any consecrated space set apart for worship and the visitation of the divine or numinous

Temples would usually contain the image of the divinity or divinities,an altar on which to place the sacrifices or offerings an altar or brazier for incense and lamps
Altars for slaughtering or dismembering were usually outside and often infront of the temple where incense offerings and ceremonies and dancing could take place

Answer 4

Usually you find one that's already there.

Then, once you are emperor, you simply order that the statue's head of the previous emperor be taken off the stone body and a new marble head of yourself simply placed on the statue's stone base.

That's how some of the Romans used to do it and save money.

That's my understanding.

It's a kind of screw the new emperor's head on the old emperor's body kind of cost saving decision.

Roman empire budgets must be balanced.

Raise quality.
Increase revenues.
Reduce costs.

In Caesar We Trust.

Answer 5

I'm a professor of Roman History at Virginia Commonwealth University, and I know pretty anything you could ever want to know about anything having to do with the Romans, coming from a lifetime of studying them.

I know how to build a Roman pagan shrine, for several different deities, but I'm not going to tell you. I don't want to be responsible for you hurting yourself. If you want to know really bad, come enroll in one of my classes. I'm sure I say something about it when I get bored, or something.

EDIT: ;)

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_temple
Its about Roman temples I hope that helps