Ruskin likens the 'foulness' of modern art to Cotytto, the Thracian goddess associated with Cybele, worshipped with licentious rites, whose cult spread widely, to the contrast of the 'chastity' of Turner 's art, likened to Vesta, worshipped by the Romans in every household as the goddess of the hearth, whose sacred flame was tended by the Vestal Virgins.