Geography/Culture: Roman. She had a round temple in the forum. Her oldest temple was made of wattle and daub, round in imitation of the shape of the earliest huts of the tribal Latins.
Description: Celibate Goddess of the sun {as hearth of the solar system}; She Who makes possible and represents the sociability of the human species; She Who is immanent in the altar fire, and the domestic hearth-fire; She Who presides over the home and household promoting family unity; tutelary Goddess of the bakers' guild; Refuge of suppliants; Presider over all sacrifice; She to Whom the first and last libations are poured.
Her priestesses are Vestals.
To Whom Sacred: domesticated fire, or fire produced by friction or burning-glass; round temples; eternal altar-flame; horn (symbolizing the penus or store, which was renewed at Her festival).
Festival: June 7 -- Vestalia.
Male Associate: Vulcan.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She succeeded Caca, ----, below.
• Fornax, Oven, is an aspect of Her, {though the Goddesses are distinguished from each other in Her Cycle of Transformations}.
• The Romans called Her One of the Hesperides, Western-Ones, due to Her identification with Hestia, Hearth, Who is One of the Hesperides.
• She is the Roman counterpart of Greek Hestia, Hearth, below.
• Sur-title Justinia, YUSTENY1, ----, (Vesta-Justinia).
• She is associated with Maia, Grand-Mother, Who is linked with Rosmerta, {Dew-of-the-Sea}.
• She is also associated with Pales, {Protector},
• The Palladia kept in the inner shrine of Her temple is associated with the theft of the Trojan Palladia, see Pallas, {Maiden}, Who is linked with Pales, {Protector}
• In Her earliest form She was associated with Tellus-Mater, Earth-Mother.
• Her Vestals conducted the festivals of Ops, Fruitfulness.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: rough-breath-epsilon-sigma-tau-iota-alpha, (hestia).
Description: Celibate Goddess of the hearth, its fire, and the altar fire; Guardian of domesticity; She Who represents idealized maternity; She Whose warm protectiveness and impersonal nurturing love is unconditional.
To Whom Sacred: the public hearths (from which fires colonists carried the flame of the home city to new shores); first fruits; year-old cows; oil; wine.
Iconography: She is veiled and wears a straight full-length robe; She holds the back of Her left wrist to Her hip, and a staff in Her right hand.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She may have been called One of the Hesperides, Western-Ones, since She bears the same name as One of Them.
• Daughter of Rhea, Earth, Who is linked with Pandora, All-Giving.
• The Romans identified Her with their own Vesta, Hearth, above.

Geography/Culture: Roman. Perhaps pre-Roman.
Description: Ancient Goddess of the hearth.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Medusa, Ruler, Who is linked with the Gorgones, Grim-Ones.
• She was succeeded by Vesta, Sacred-Fire, above.