{"id":103244,"date":"2022-03-09T21:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=103244"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:50:33","slug":"roman-deities-of-sewers-and-excrement","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-deities-of-sewers-and-excrement\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman deities of sewers and excrement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inhabitants of ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> possessed a goddess of sewers, a toilet god and a god of excrement. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The goddess of the channels was a certain <em>Cloacina<\/em> (from the word <em>cloaca<\/em>), which was borrowed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/neighboring-lands-around-ancient-rome\/italian-peoples\/etruscans\/\">Etruscans<\/a> into the Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/pantheon-in-rome\/\">pantheon<\/a>. <em>Cloacina<\/em> was the patron of Rome&#8217;s largest sewer &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/kultura\/architektura-rzymska\/budowle-rzymskie\/cloaca-maxima\/\"><em>Cloaca Maxima<\/em><\/a>. In her honour, an altar was erected in the royal toilet at the behest of the ruler Titus Tatius. People prayed to her when the channels were blocked or poured out. Later, her cult was associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/spis-bogow-rzymskich\/wenus\/\">goddess Venus<\/a>, creating an altar in honour of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/venus-roman-goddess\/\">Venus<\/a> Cloacina<\/em> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/forum-romanum\/\">Forum Romanum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Roman god of toilets was, in turn, a certain <em>Crepitus<\/em> who was asked for support in the event of bloating, constipation or diarrhoea. There was also a prayer to <em>Stercutius<\/em> (from the word <em>stercus<\/em> meaning &#8220;faeces&#8221;), the god of stool. Farmers who fertilized their fields often turned to him for support. He was also often associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/saturn-roman-god\/\">Saturn<\/a> &#8211; the Roman god of agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Christians had a particularly bad attitude towards the cult of <em>Stercutius<\/em>, which criticized e.g. Augustine of Hippo in the 5th century CE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40037,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-103244","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/103244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/103244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=103244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}