Vestanoun
/ˈves.tə//ˈves.tə/in Roman mythology (= ancient stories), the goddess (= female god) of the hearth (= the area around a fireplace in a house) and the home:
A small round temple was erected to Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, in which a sacred fire was kept ever burning.
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- In the circular Temple of Vesta, the sacred flame perpetuating the Roman state was tended by six Vestal Virgins
- Witth the exception of Neptune and Juno, Vesta, Themis, the Graces, and the Nereids, the other gods have been known from time immemorial in Egypt.
- We passed the Temple of Vesta, where the sacred fire burns eternally in the hearth of the goddess.
- By the decree of Gratian, paganism throughout the Roman empire was abolished, and the fires of Vesta were extinguished.
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