They were also worshipped as village tutelary deities. Bon contributes a pantheon of local tutelary deities to Tibetan art. Goddess Bhadrakali is the tutelary deity of the Nadar community. The Italic towns had their own tutelary deities. Padmanabhaswamy is the tutelary deity of the royal family of Travancore. It is worshiped as the tutelary deity of the town. Nekhbet was the tutelary deity of Upper Egypt. She is the tutelary deity to several Sumerian leaders. She was one of the deities Macrobius proposed as the secret tutelary of Rome. Yidam is sometimes translated by the terms "meditational deity" or "tutelary deity". Ninkasi is the ancient Sumerian tutelary goddess of beer. Ayyappan may bear a historical relationship to the tutelary deity Aiyanar in Tamil Nadu. Nemesis was one of several tutelary deities of the drill-ground (as "Nemesis campestris"). Brownies originated as domestic tutelary spirits, very similar to the Lares of ancient Roman tradition. The choice of this tutelary deity of Athens could make sense on this civic building.