Above these are the gentile gods or Ujigami,-ghostsof old rulers now worshipped as tutelar gods.

The pagan choruses are full of riotous excitement, though there is not one of them to match "Ye tutelar gods" in "Belshazzar."

For Lares and Penates there were only the mortuary-tablets of the ancestors, and certain little tablets bearing names of other gods-tutelargods....