Images of Venus have been found in domestic murals, mosaics and household shrines (lararia).

They are believed to have revived due to poor care of the household shrine.

Mary went back to the women's quarters while Appah Rao made an offering at his household shrine.

Almost every day for two decades, the mother, Nobuko, placed devotional offerings of food and tea before at a household shrine.

At the top of the staircase he bowed once to the left, to the lacquered cabinet containing the household shrine.

Most are small, just the right size for carrying on pilgrimage or worshiping in a household shrine.

Each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered.

No dowry, for instance, was complete without a statue of Venus for the household shrine, as three examples demonstrate.

It carried tools, clothes, bedding, weapons, household shrines, everything they'd chosen to carry away from the homes now sunk beneath the rising sea.

Many orthodox households have a "red corner", a household shrine with icons ranged on an embroidered cloth.