stackyFACTSWhen you have a deity for literally everything, you eventually have to assign one to feces. Sterculius was the Roman god of odor and manure, essential for agricultural fertilization. Farmers would unironically pray to him for better crop yields, proving that the ancient divine hierarchy definitely had a bottom rung.
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