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Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through 19 December. By the 1st century B.C., the celebration had been extended through 23 December, for a total of seven days of festivities. [ 1 ]
In ancient Roman culture, sigillaria were pottery or wax figurines given as traditional gifts during the Saturnalia. 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 ...
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.
e. Greco-Roman mythology features male homosexuality in many of the constituent myths. In addition, there are instances of cross-dressing, androgyny, and other themes which are grouped under the acronym LGBTQ+. These myths have been described as being crucially influential on Western LGBT literature, with the original myths being constantly re ...
Saturnalia (Latin: Saturnaliorum Libri Septem, "Seven Books of the Saturnalia ") is a work written after c. 431 CE by the Roman provincial Macrobius Theodosius (b. c. 390 CE - d. ?). [1] The Saturnalia consists of an account of the discussions held at the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus during the holiday of the Saturnalia.
Size chart. Saturnalia was a small, bipedal animal that probably reached a length of 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) [7] and weighed between 4 and 11 kilograms (8.8 and 24.3 lb). [a] The skull of Saturnalia was only about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long, giving it a proportionally small head as in other sauropodomorphs. [5]
t. e. The Lemuralia or Lemuria was an annual event in the religion of ancient Rome, during which the Romans performed rites to exorcise any malevolent and fearful ghosts of the restless dead from their homes. These unwholesome spectres, the lemures or larvae[1] were propitiated with chants and offerings of black beans.
Celestial Method (天体のメソッド, Sora no Mesoddo) is a 13-episode Japanese anime television series created and written by Naoki Hisaya and produced by Studio 3Hz.The series aired in Japan between October 5 and December 28, 2014.