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Ancient Roman god of plowing
Vervactor
Minor god of Fields
God of ploughing

In Roman mythology, Vervactor was the deity of ploughing fallow land. He was one of the 12 helper gods of Ceres. His name was invoked during the Cerealia, along with the other 11 helper gods of Ceres.

References

  1. Price, Mary Beard; North, John; Price, Simon (1999). Religions of Rome: A history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780521316828.
  2. Dumézil, Georges; Krapp, Philip (1996). Archaic Roman religion (Johns Hopkins ed., . ed.). Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780801854804.
  3. Spaeth, Barbette Stanley (2010). The Roman Goddess Ceres. University of Texas Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780292785779.
  4. "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AGRICULTU´RA". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 4 February 2017.


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