{"id":13358,"count":2,"description":"Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. Vesta's presence was symbolized by the sacred fire that burned at her hearth and temples. Her closest Greek equivalent is Hestia.\nGeorges Dum\u00e9zil (1898\u20131986), a French comparative philologist, surmised that the name of the goddess derives from Indoeuropean root *h\u2081eu-, via the derivative form *h\u2081eu-s- which alternates with *h\u2081w-es-. The former is found in Greek 'heuei', Lat. 'urit', 'ustio' and Vedic 'osathi' all conveying burning and the second is found in 'Vesta', Greek 'Hestia'. See also Gallic Celtic 'visc' fire.\nVesta was the goddess of the hearth of the city of Rome.\nDum\u00e9zil draws a comparison between Roman religious conceptions and rituals and the relevant aspects of Vedic religion. Sacrificial ritual in Vedic India, required the presence of three fires, two of them being essential.\nThe so called hearth of the landlord marks the connection to Earth of the offerer, i.e. is the marker of the origin of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/vesta\/","name":"Vesta","slug":"vesta","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/13358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=13358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}