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Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December in the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities until 19 December. By the 1st century BC, the celebration had been extended until 23 December, for a total of seven days of festivities. [ 1 ]
Saturnalia Rulebook 1984. The game is set on the continent of Saturnalia, which has a variety of climates and a large cast of mythical creatures. [4] The rule book recommends that the character should be a follower of one of the fourteen deities — each gives the character some advantages, and allows the character to learn certain types of spells.
Saturnalia is a survival horror adventure game presented in a third-person view that incorporates roguelike mechanics into the main gameplay. The player controls one of the four available characters – Anita, Sergio, Claudia and Paul – through a Sardinian village where an ancient ritual has been held and a mysterious creature is on the loose.
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Sigillaria as a proper noun was also the name for the last day of the Saturnalia, December 23, [1] and for a place where sigillaria were sold. [2] A sigillarius was a person who made and sold sigillaria , perhaps as an offshoot of pottery manufacture .
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Macrobius's given name is unrecorded as is his family name ().His recorded name is a series of three surnames (), properly ordered Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius.This is what appears in the earliest surviving manuscripts of the Saturnalia and how he is addressed in the excerpts from his lost De Differentiis.
In The Golden Bough, James Frazer cites a Greek martyrology which claims that during Saturnalia in Durostorum on the Danube (modern Silistra), Roman soldiers would choose a man from among themselves to be a ceremonial "temporary king" for thirty days. At the end of that term, this soldier was to cut his own throat on the altar of Saturn.