iese Weise
ist Iuno geworden._" He means that the creative power is
called Juno in a woman, or in a people (Iuno Populonia),
or in the curiae (Iuno Curitis), and that an independent
deity, Juno _par excellence_, emerges from all these.
But so far I cannot follow him.

[285] There is no real evidence from purely Roman
sources of this fancied conjugal or other relation, if
we exclude that of the alleged cult of Juno by the
Flaminica Dialis. This has been well seen and expressed
by W. Otto, _l.c._ p. 215 foll.; see also _Classical
Review_ as quoted above. As we shall see in the next
lecture, Dr. Frazer is much concerned to show that
Jupiter and Juno are actually a married pair, and
consequently he will have nothing to do with my opinion
on this point: _Early History of Kingship_, p. 214
foll., and _Adonis_, _Attis,_ _Osiris_, ed. 2, p. 410,
note 1.

[286] Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 141.

[287] Festus, p. 106; Macrob. i. 12. 6.

[288] I have discussed the Vestalia and the nature of
Vesta and her cult in _R.F._ p. 145 foll. See also
Marquardt, p. 336 foll., and Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 141
foll.

[289] Ovid, _Fasti_, vi. 296, says that he had been
stupid enough to believe that there was a statue in the
_aedes Vestae_, but found out his mistake:--

esse diu stultus Vestae simulacra putavi;
mox didici curvo nulla subesse tholo.

The passage is interesting as showing how natural it was
for a Roman of the Graeco-Roman period to suppose that
his deities must be capable of taking iconic form. For
anthropomorphic representations of Vesta in other places
and at Pompeii, see Wissowa, _Gesammelte Abhandlungen_,
p. 67 foll.

[290] See Lanciani, _Ruins and Excavations of Ancient
Rome_, p. 223 foll. The statues of the _virgines
vestales maximae_, discovered in the Atrium Vestae, all
belong to the period of the Empire. They are now in the
museum of the Baths of Diocletian.

LECTURE VII

THE DEITIES OF THE EARLIEST RELIGION: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

In the last lecture we interrogated the calendar as to the deities whose
festivals are recorded in it, with the aid of what we know of the most
ancient priesthoods attached to particular cults. The result may be
stated thus: we found a number of impersonal _numina_, with names of
adjectival form, such as Saturnus, Vertum