Caca
Caca was the sister of Cacus in Roman mythology .
A sacellum was consecrated to her in Rome , a holy place surrounded by a wall, where, according to one reading of Servius, a constant fire burned, another reading of the vestal Virgins. A pair of gods have been seen in Caca and Cacus, with Caca being a goddess of the domestic hearth, who was later ousted by Vesta .
With Servius and then also Lactantius it is said that Caca was worshiped because she betrayed her brother, a predatory monster, to Hercules . This version is rejected by Georg Wissowa as a subsequent aetiological education, as it does not match the other versions of the Cacussage in Indo-European mythologies. There Cacus is betrayed by the roar of the cattle of Geryon and Hercules does not need any further clues to find their predators.
literature
- Emil Aust : Caca. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1164.
- Georg Wissowa : Caca . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 842 f. ( Digitized version ).