Di Indigetes {Gods of the Week}

[Fiamma]

This is really kinda interesting. I first learned of the Di Indigetes last fall when I was researching a few things for my Grove's Samhain ritual, I discovered a little-known goddess called Aeternitas, the Roman goddess of eternity. There is quite a list of deities- mostly but not all goddesses, that, as the quote below says, were not adopted form other mythologies. Being that most of these deities are very minor, there aren't many sources of information about them. There is quite a list here, which includes links to individual articles. Most of them are only a line or two, but some are longer...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_indigetes

The di indigetes ("indigenous gods") were a group of Roman gods, goddesses and spirits not adopted from other mythologies, as opposed to the di novensides ("newcomer gods") in Georg Wissowa (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georg_Wissowa&action=edit)'s terminology.
Most of these are very minor gods, little more than personifications of an abstract quality. Ops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ops), Janus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_%28mythology%29) and Quirinus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirinus) are among the few important di indigetes. Additionally, as most Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin) words for abstractions and concepts were feminine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender), the vast majority of di indigetes are female, and Roman mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology) in general has an abundance of goddesses.

[Zephyrstorm]

Thanks, Fiamma - I always wondered what happened to the Deities that the Roman's originally followed. :D

[Theres]

many of these deities show up on the reverse motifs of Roman Imperial coinage... Virtus, Nobilitas, Constantia, Ops, Laetitia, etc., and Roma appeared almost exclusively on the obverse of Republican era coinage.

however i had never heard of the term Di Indigetes to classify them before (although it makes perfect sense).
interesting, and thanks!