Editing Sabines (section)

==== Sabine gods ====
{{See also|List of Roman deities#Sabine gods|Samnite gods}}
[[File:Sancus.png|right|thumb|Statue of [[Semo Sancus]] from his shrine on the [[Quirinal]]]]

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*[[Angitia]]
*[[Diana (mythology)|Diana]]{{efn|name=Roman|Later adopted into [[ancient Roman religion]].<ref name=Varro/>}}
*[[Feronia (mythology)|Feronia]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Fortuna]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Fontus|Fons]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Fides (goddess)|Fides]]{{efn|For [[Fides (goddess)|''Fides'']], see also [[Semo Sancus]] or [[Dius Fidius]].}}{{efn|name=Roman}}<ref>Woodard, Roger D. ''Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman cult''. p 184.{{when|date=October 2021}}</ref>
*[[Flora (mythology)|Flora]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Herentas]] {{small|(equivalent of [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]])}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Scheid|first=John|date=2016-03-07|title=Venus|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.6730|journal=Oxford Classical Dictionary|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-938113-5}}</ref>
*the [[Lares]] {{small|(guardian deities)}}{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Larunda]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Lucina (goddess)|Lucina]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Luna (mythology)|Luna]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Mars (mythology)|Mamers]]{{efn|God of war, with thunder attributes.}}{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Mefitis]]
*[[Minerva]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*the [[Novensiles|Novensides]]<ref>Or [[Novensiles]]: the spelling ''-d-'' for ''-l-'' is characteristic of the [[Sabine language]]</ref>{{efn|name=Roman}} {{small|(council of thunder gods)}}
*[[Ops]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Pales]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Quirinus]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Sabus]]
*[[Salus]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Sancus]]
*[[Saturn (mythology)|Saturn]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Sol (Roman mythology)|Sol]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Soranus (mythology)|Soranus]]{{efn|name=Suri|God of underworld fire, with thunder attributes.}}
*[[Strenia]]
*[[Summanus]]{{efn|God of darkness, with thunder attributes.}}{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Terminus (god)|Terminus]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Vacuna]]
*[[Vejovis|Vediovis]]{{efn|name=Suri}}{{efn|name=Roman}}
*[[Vertumnus|Vortumnus]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
*{{ill|Vitula (goddess)|lt=Vitula|it|Vitula}}
*[[Vulcan (mythology)|Vulcan]]{{efn|name=Roman}}
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Many of these deities were shared with the [[Etruscan religion]], and were also adopted into the derivative [[Samnite religion|Samnite]] and [[ancient Roman religion]].
Roman author [[Varro]], who was himself of Sabine origin, gives a list of Sabine gods who were adopted by the Romans.<ref name=Varro>Varro, [https://archive.org/details/onlatinlanguage01varruoft/page/70/mode/2up ''De Lingua Latina'' 5.74]</ref>
Elsewhere, Varro claims [[Sol Indiges]] – who had a [[sacred grove]] at [[Lavinium]] – as Sabine but at the same time equates him with [[Apollo]].<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Varro]]|title=De lingua latina|at=5.68}}</ref><ref>Rehak, Paul (2006). ''Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the northern Campus Martius''. University of Wisconsin Press. p 94.</ref> Of those listed, he writes, "several names have their roots in both languages, as trees that grow on a property line creep into both fields. Saturn, for instance, can be said to have another origin here, and so too Diana."{{efn|{{langx|la|e quis nonnulla nomina in utraque lingua habent radices, ut arbores quae in confinio natae in utroque agro serpunt: potest enim Saturnus hic de alia causa esse dictus atque in Sabinis, et sic Diana.}}}}

Varro makes various claims for Sabine origins throughout his works, some more plausible than others, and his list should not be taken at face value.<ref>Clark, Anna. (2007). ''Divine Qualities: Cult and community in republican Rome''. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp 37–38;<br />[[Emma Dench|Dench, Emma]]. (2005). ''Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian''. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp 317–318.</ref> But the importance of the Sabines in the early cultural formation of Rome is evidenced, for instance, by the [[Rape of the Sabine Women|bride abduction of the Sabine women]] by [[Romulus]]'s men, and in the Sabine ethnicity of [[Numa Pompilius]], second [[king of Rome]], to whom are attributed many of Rome's religious and legal institutions.<ref>[[William Warde Fowler|Fowler, W.W.]] (1922). ''The Religious Experience of the Roman People''. London, UK. p 108.</ref> Varro, however, says that the altars to most of these gods were established at Rome by [[Titus Tatius|King Tatius]] as the result of a vow (''[[votum]]'').{{efn|Tatius is said by Varro to have dedicated altars to "[[Ops]], [[Flora (mythology)|Flora]], [[Vejovis|Vediovis]], and [[Saturn (mythology)|Saturn]]; to [[Sol (Roman mythology)|Sol]], [[Luna (goddess)|Luna]], [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]], and [[Summanus]]; and likewise to [[Larunda]], [[Terminus (god)|Terminus]], [[Quirinus]], [[Vertumnus|Vortumnus]], the [[Lares]], [[Diana (goddess)|Diana]], and [[Lucina (goddess)|Lucina]]."}}