Consus

After harvest, Romans placed stored grain under Consus’s protection. They regarded Consus as an ancient Roman agricultural god linked with grain kept after harvest. Roman tradition gives no parentage, physical form or account of his birth.

Consus belonged to a group of deities linked with particular farming activities. Ceres watched over the planting of grain, Robigus spared it from wheat rust, Flora caused plants to blossom, and Quirinus was honoured when grain was roasted. Consus guarded stored grain after it had been gathered. This placed him later in the agricultural cycle. The Consualia, festivals held in his honour, took place on 19 or 21 August and on 15 December. He does not appear as a protagonist in a recorded myth. His role centred on stored grain and the rites held for it.