Hearth

• Hearth contains Fire.

  The hearth is where a household fire is kept. Domestic cult and cooking can share the stones.

  contains · interpretive · documented

• Cauldron is associated with Hearth.

  A cauldron belongs over a fire. The household fact is older than the tale that makes the pot revive a warrior.

  associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

Roman religion

• Hearth appears in Roman religion.

  Roman household religion keeps Vesta and the hearth among its cares. The public Vesta is a civic expansion of that care, not a Greek Hestia copied wholesale in this record.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

  appears in · partially sourced · culturally specific

• Roman religion is used in Hearth.

  Roman religion cares for a civic and household fire. Virgil inherits a Troy-to-Latium hearth as a token of continuity.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

  used in · partially sourced · documented

Celtic tradition

• Hearth is associated with Brigid.

  Later Irish remembrance keeps a fire in Brigid’s care. The hearth is a local kept flame, not Vesta’s civic round.

  associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

• Brigid is associated with Hearth.

  A kept fire belongs to a household or a sanctuary hearth. The association is later Irish, not a proof of a pan-European hearth-goddess.

  associated with · interpretive · culturally specific