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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 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.
The dancers wore garlands of iztauhyatl, the flower artemisia, while those watching the festival carried the flower. [1] Song and dance in honor of Huixtocihuatl continued for ten days, and culminated on the last day of Tecuilhuitontli , when priests sacrificed the ixiptla on the shrine dedicated to Tlaloc on the Templo Mayor . [ 9 ]
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]
Bonalu is a festival of offering to the Mother Goddess, and families share the offering with family members and guests. A non-vegetarian family feast follows after the great offering. The meat used to prepare the meal is the meat of a goat or a rooster, that has been ceremonially slaughtered, and later partaken as a meal.
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 festival of Mokoshino Poletye, or women's summer, is a series of days from September 1 to 7 dedicated to the goddess. [261] The Day of Rod and Rozhanitsy in Slavic tradition falls on the Nativity of Mary and is a celebration of family, harvest and home.
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 ...