{"id":104473,"date":"2022-04-18T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=104473"},"modified":"2022-08-13T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T07:33:32","slug":"sterquilinus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/sterquilinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterquilinus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sterquilinus<\/em>, <em>Sterculius<\/em>, or <em>Stercutus<\/em> (&#8220;fertilizer&#8221;) was the god of fertilizing the earth. Perhaps he was synonymous with <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/picumnus\/\">Picumnus<\/a>. This name was also used for <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/saturn-roman-god\/\">Saturn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The early Romans were an agrarian civilization and most of their <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/\">gods<\/a> (eg Pomona, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/ceres\/\">Ceres<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/flora\/\">Flora<\/a>, Dea Diaza) were responsible for rural life. Therefore, the Romans needed a deity who would oversee fertilization. <em>Sterquilinus<\/em> was just such a god.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterquilinus, Sterculius, or Stercutus (&#8220;fertilizer&#8221;) was the god of fertilizing the earth. Perhaps he was synonymous with Picumnus. This name was also used for Saturn. The early Romans were an agrarian civilization and most of their gods (eg Pomona, Ceres, Flora, Dea Diaza) were responsible for rural life. Therefore, the Romans needed a deity who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39612,"parent":54765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104473","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104473\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}