The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies

CHAPTER XII.

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Terrestrial Gods--Saturn--His Parentage--How represented--His History--The Golden Age--Sacrifices offered to Saturn--The Saturnalia--Modern Carnival--Janus--Contradictory Accounts of his Origin--Temple of Janus--Quirinus at Rome 61