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Peitho, the goddess of persuasion, was also worshipped during the Attic Aphrodisia. [2] Preparations for the festival may have included the sacrifice of doves to purify the temple and alter, washing the statues, coating the temple roof in pitch, and the acquiring purple cloth.
The features are most similar to Near-Eastern and Egyptian deities, and least similar to Greek ones. The body and legs are enclosed within a tapering pillar-like term, from which the goddess' feet protrude. On the coins minted at Ephesus, the goddess wears a mural crown (like a city's walls), an attribute of Cybele as a protector of cities (see ...
Cotyttia (Greek: Κοτύττια, Kotuttiā) was an orgiastic, nocturnal religious festival of ancient Greece and Thrace in celebration of Kotys, the goddess of sex, considered an aspect of Persephone. [1] [2]
The Nemoralia (also known as the Festival of Torches or Hecatean Ides) is a three-day festival originally celebrated by the ancient Romans on the Ides of August (August 13–15) in honor of the goddess Diana. Although the Nemoralia was originally celebrated at the Sanctuary of Diana at Lake Nemi, it soon became more widely celebrated.
Mazu or Matsu is a sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. She is also known by several other names and titles . Mazu is the deified form of Lin Moniang ( Chinese : 林 默 娘 ; pinyin : Lín Mòniáng ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Lîm Be̍k-niû / Lîm Bia̍k-niû / Lîm Be̍k-niô͘ ), a shamaness from Fujian ...
The Greek counterpart of Spes was Elpis, who by contrast had no formal cult in Greece.The primary myth in which Elpis plays a role is the story of Pandora.The Greeks had ambivalent or even negative feelings about "hope", with Euripides describing it in his Suppliants as "delusive" and stating "it has embroiled many a State", [13] and the concept was unimportant in the philosophical systems of ...
A goddess, Meditrina, seems to have been a late Roman invention to account for the origin of the festival. [3] The earliest account associating the Meditrinalia with such a goddess was of the 2nd century grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus , on the basis of which Meditrina is asserted by modern sources to be the Roman goddess of health, longevity ...
The fifth Kupalo was, as I believe, the God of Abundance, like Ceres for the Greeks, To him, the foolish people gave thanks during harvest-tide.The commemoration of this demon Kupalo is still being celebrated in some of our lands by the foolish, from the 23rd of June, the eve of the birth of St. John the Baptist, up to the harvest and longer in the following way: in the evening, the plain folk ...