by Aldus Marius on Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:33 am
Salvete amici!
Fasti for Thursday, 1 Mai:
Kalendis Maiis
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Notes: Every Kalends is sacred to Iuno. "Vindicat Ausonias Iunonis cura kalendas..." -Ovidius
And on our SVR calendar, Piscinus describes a very busy day!:
* Floralia.
* Vestal Virgin Licinia added an aedicula, pulvinar, and ara to the Aventine Temple of Bona Dea in 123 BCE. There the Flamen Volcanalis would sacrifice to the Bona Dea, in the area that men could enter. Men were prohibited from entering into the Temple itself on the Aventine.
* Procession of the Serpents held for Angitia, the Marruccini Bona Dea, goddess of healing and prophecy.
* Festival of the Lares Praestites, the genii of watch dogs who protected the City.
* Lighting of lamps at the tombs of ancestors.
* Lustratio of the crops at Casilium (Capua).
And, lastest but not leastest..
* Societas Via Romana founded with Collegium Philosophicum, Collegium Latinum, Collegium Artium, and Collegium Religionis, AUC 2754 / 2001 CE.
>({|:-) for everything, and
]{:O) for the Watch-dogs
In fide,
Aldus Marius Peregrinus.