Talk:Fire
H&P also stands for two figures in Greek mythology: Hygeia, the goddess of welfare and prevention of sickness; and Panacea, the goddess of healing and cures.
Juvenal (60-140 AD) refers to Rome's Imperial provision of subsidised entertainments and subsidised or free bread to the masses as panem et circenses (bread and circuses).
Salus was the goddess of public welfare in the Roman religion, but was later identified with the Greek Hygieia. Salus' temple on the Quirinal at Rome, dedicated in 302 B.C., was the scene of an annual sacrifice. Her name means “salvation” or “welfare.”
The Temple of Serapis was an sanctuary in Ancient Rome dedicated to the god Serapis and the goddess Isis. The temple was founded on an unknown date but known to have existed during the reign of Caracalla. It was known as the most monumental temple of the Quirinal Hill.
Religious syncretism, a fusion of traditional Greco-Roman and Egyptian cults, became popular during the Hellenistic Period. Deities that were established or gained prominence during this period were Isis and Serapis.
Salus was the Roman goddess of security, welfare, health, and prosperity for both the individual and the state.
Salus was the Roman goddess of security, welfare, health, and prosperity for both the individual and the state. Her name means “salvation” or “welfare.” She is frequently compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia, despite the fact that their roles are very different. One of the first Roman deities, Salus has also been called Salus Semonia. The obscure ritual of the Augurium Salutis, celebrated annually on August 5 for the preservation of the Roman state, attests to the high antiquity and significance of the religion of Salus. All of Italy was affected by her cult. Relationships with Spes and Fortuna are mentioned in literary texts.
Hestia, The Queen of Fire,
Freya (Nordic Fire Goddess)
ANTONINUS PIUS 150AD, Rome Ancient OLD Silver Roman Coin, "Welfare Goddess" picture welfaregoddess coin File:Welfaregoddess coin.jpg
While Valetudo is the Roman version of Hygieia (personal health), she became conflated over time with the existing Roman goddess, Salus, who had started off more as a public welfare goddess. (Cited from: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/salus-sestertius.353221/) File:Welfaregoddesscoin2.jpg
Fortuna, in Roman religion, goddess of chance or lot who became identified with the Greek Tyche;
Athena, goddess of wisdom and welfare.
Goddess Saraswathy got annoyed by this and left Lord Brahma . Meanwhile Lord Brahma did Aswamedha yagam for Universal welfare Goddess Saraswathy
Fire is a symbol of God's love
The Vedic of the Hindu see Fire is a symbol of purity; likewise a woman is also a symbol of purity. ... her ambitions, almost everything, for the welfare of her family.
Fire Ritual - the most famous form of Zoroastrian worship - Fire is a symbol of the purity of Ahura Mazda. - In the fire ritual, Zoroastrians worship not fire itself, but rather Ahura Mazda's perfect purity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae
In Imperial Rome, Cura Annonae ("care of Annona") was the import and distribution of grain to the residents of the cities of Rome and, after its foundation, Constantinople. The term was used in honour of the goddess Annona. The city of Rome imported all the grain consumed by its population, estimated to number 1,000,000 by the 2nd century AD. This included recipients of the grain dole or corn dole,[a] a government program which gave out subsidized grain, then free grain, and later bread, to about 200,000 of Rome's adult male citizens.[b] Rome's grain subsidies were originally ad hoc emergency measures taken to import cheap grain from trading partners and allies at times of scarcity, to help feed growing numbers of indebted and dispossessed citizen-farmers. By the end of the Republic, grain subsidies and doles had become permanent, uniquely Roman institutions. The grain dole was reluctantly adopted by Augustus and later emperors as a free monthly issue to those who qualified to receive it. In 22 AD, Augustus' successor Tiberius publicly acknowledged the Cura Annonae as a personal and imperial duty, which if neglected would cause "the utter ruin of the state".[1]
During the Imperial Era, a regular and predictable supply of subsidised grain, the grain dole, and sumptuous public games such as gladiator contests and chariot racing earned the obedience of potentially restive lower-class urban citizens, providing what the poet Juvenal sarcastically summed up as "bread and circuses". Sufficient imports of grain to meet the basic requirements of cities relied on dependable surpluses elsewhere, and minimal grain-hoarding by speculators. The logistics of moving the grain by sea to Rome required the state's commission of many hundreds of privately owned merchant ships, some very large, and a system for collecting and distributing the grain at its destination. Most of Rome's grain supply was grown, imported, stored and traded as a profitable commodity, funded by speculators and hoarders, using loans, not state subsidies.[2] Some provinces were almost entirely given over to the production of grain for consumption in Roman cities. The most important sources of bread grain, mostly durum wheat, were Roman Egypt, North Africa (21st century Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco), and Sicily. When the Vandals took over most of these provinces (c. 439), the Western Roman Empire lost the greater part of its grain supply.
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"The Roman reliance on slave labor was a major contributing factor because one-third of the people of Rome were slaves who performed many different jobs and thereby deprived lower-class Romans of work. This led to widespread unemployment, which the Roman government addressed by a welfare system providing free bread, olive oil, and other necessities to the people, and this depleted the treasury."
THE POEM OF ERRA AND ISHUM: A BABYLONIAN POET’S VIEW OF WAR