The Templum Deorum is an online community whose goal is to encourage, promote, and facilitate modern attempts at practicing the Religio Romana. We encourage practical, constructive outreach to encourage active worship of the gods. To that end we promote positive discussion of the gods, religious practices, and Roman culture that can not only increase our collective understanding, but also foment and provoke action (since discussion is not action in itself); both focused and free form discussion are valuable.
Specifically we are a place for people to both share and create articles, essays, rites, poems and art, and a place for organizing planned festivals for the following:
• The 12 Olympian Gods, known as Dii Consentes
• Related mystery gods such as Isis, Magna Mater, Bacchus, Mithras, etc
• Historical syncretic movements, primarily Romano-Celtic deities
We are open to anyone who is interested in helping the Religio Romana thrive in the 21st century. Since this is our primary goal we do not focus on modern occultism, religions like Wicca, or other neo-Pagan practices. Having said this we are in no way disparaging toward such groups, because we do not feel that it is appropriate to judge what other people (members included) choose to do on a personal spiritual level. We believe that ancient Romans like Symmachus, and Themistius in the east, said it best when they encouraged universal toleration for all religions.
For more information about the Templum Deorum please see our FAQ.
