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The Feast of the Divine Twelve.......Does anybody know of this? Heard of it? Know what it is? Can't seem to find any reference to it anywhere? Please help!

Salve

Are you perhaps referring to the Di consentes?

Piscinus is right, as usual. I've seen literary references to "the feast of the twelve gods" which includes the usual "Olympian" twelve, viz. Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Vulcan, Apollo, Diana, Ceres, Venus, Mars, Vesta, Mercury and Minerva.

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Tergestus

Salvete

If that is the case, then the feast to which you refer was the lectisternium held for the Di Consentes during the Second Punic War. That was a one time celebration.

Salvete

Here's your reference Livy AUC 22.10. The twelve were paired on couches as follows: Juno and Juppiter, Apollo and Diana, Ceres and Neptune, Mars and Venus, Vesta and Volconus. Apparently images of the Gods were carried from Their temples through the streets in a grand procession, then brought to a single place for the feast. At other times such lectisternia might be held for various deities at different times throughout the year. The festival of Saturnalia for example began as a lectisternium in December that was part of a series of special celebrations begun earlier in that particular year, iirc 213 BCE.

Salve,

Then the aediles should move this topic to the right collegium, nonne?

Vale!
Draco

Salve Gnae Draco

Sic hoc teneo. The topic would be better placed in the Collegium Religionum where we might continue on the subject of feasting with the Gods, or discuss the Di Consentes further.

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