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Insitor
  • Minor god of Fields
  • God of sowing crops

Insitor was, in Ancient Roman religion, a minor agricultural deity involved with the sowing of crops.[1] His name was invoked during the Cerealia, along with the other 11 helper gods of Ceres.[2]

References

  1. ^ Dumézil, Georges; Krapp, Philip (1996). Archaic Roman religion (Johns Hopkins ed.). Baltimore [u.a.]: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780801854804.
  2. ^ "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AGRICULTU´RA". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 4 February 2017.