The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(Di Penates) In ancient Rome, originally the divine protectors of the store-room (penus) and the supplies therein; later widened to signify house and family spirits in general.
They were venerated, together with the Lares, at the household hearth. These spirits had no proper names. The domestic penates, the protective spirits of the family, were paralleled by the penates populi Romani, the protectors of the Roman people.
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