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In ancient Roman religion, the October Horse (Latin Equus October) was an animal sacrifice to Mars carried out on October 15, coinciding with the end of the agricultural and military campaigning season. [1] The rite took place during one of three horse-racing festivals held in honor of Mars, the others being the two Equirria on February 27 and ...
The Roman Equus October ceremony involved: [10] the horse was dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war; the sacrifice took place on the Ides of October, but through ritual reuse was used in a spring festival (the Parilia) two-horse chariot races determined the victim, which was the right-hand horse of the winning team
Denarius depicting the helmeted head of Mars, with Victory driving a biga on the reverse (issued 88 BC by Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus). The Equirria (also as Ecurria, from equicurria, "horse races") were two ancient Roman festivals of chariot racing, or perhaps horseback racing, [1] held in honor of the god Mars, one 27 February and the other 14 March.
Together, the ashes of the unborn calf and the blood from the head of the October Horse are mixed by the Vestals and are added to the burning bean straw of the bonfire. [4] Dumézil questioned whether the Equus October provided the horse blood, [7] since the two ancient sources that mention the ingredient omit identifying the victim. [8]
The Roman ritual Equus October consists of such a ritual sacrifice to thank the god Mars for protecting the year's harvests. [134] As Georges Dumézil points out, the horse's tail was credited with fertilizing powers in Roman times, as was the ox's tail in Africa. As for its role as the spirit of wheat, it is common to German and French ...
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According to Festus (s. v. October Equus), [8] the Halieia also included a ritual, that took place on the 24th day of the summer month of Gorpiaeus, [2] where the Rhodians sacrificed to the god a team of four white horses, by driving a four-horse chariot, representing the chariot of the sun, into the sea.
This season, she finished fifth in the season-opening GS in Austria in October before the crash in Killington happened. Shiffrin has won a women’s record 22 giant slaloms in her career and took ...