@Boeing The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta the goddess of the sacred hearth and its flame.

@ninalanyon oh yes it is as you say, Vesta is identified as Hestia in ancient Greece, and what I find interesting, she's often represented as the fire itself ! Of course it makes so much sense to me exploring nature, and living how I do, that the center of the home is the warmth. And that makes a house a home, the warmth.
She's considered to be of the purest deities.

I know of Ancient Greek mythology how Hestia used to be part of the 12-Gods and Goddesses group but gave her place to Dionysos the God of Wine and Fiesta, as she didn't want to create trouble, so pure she was. - Well I have some personal views on that but never mind me lol I mean , I'd rather her than Dionysus(Bacchus in Roman) in the Pantheon but the ancients decided otherwise - ...