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Sodalis, Temple and Unsubbing |
| From: |
Donald and Crystal L Meaker meakerfam@-------- |
| Date: |
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 07:41:53 -0600 |
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Salvete,
First, I have to announce that I will be overhauling the Sodalis page.
What is there will remain there, but I will finally be able to sort
through information and graphics and hopefully give the page a whole new
look. <a href="http://famromo.wiccan.net" target="_top" >http://famromo.wiccan.net</a>
Second, I will also be updating (maybe changing the look) the Temple to
Juno. <a href="http://famromo.wiccan.net/ivno" target="_top" >http://famromo.wiccan.net/ivno</a> (or iuno, I can never remember
without pulling it up myself).
Finally, I have finally gotten permission from my husband to unsub from
this list. He likes the occasional interesting things said on this list,
but neither of us likes the "moderation" aspect. Grown folks are
supposed to moderate themselves.
I will, of course, remain on the Religio lists, the Via Trames and the
Back Alley. Hopefully I can remain informed of NR through there. Once
the Sodalis and the Temple are finished and up I will announce on those
lists.
Keep in touch folks.
Amethystia Iunia Crystallina Materna
Your Priestess to Juno
AIM = MeakerFamily
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| Subject: |
Re: Festival of Amburbium |
| From: |
jmath669642reng@--------) |
| Date: |
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:13:31 -0500 (EST) |
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Valete, Citizens Of Nova Roma;
I stand in Forum with the Pontiff Gnaeus Tarquinius Caesar to announce
the date of the Festival of Amburbium. The date agreed upon shall be
the 11th day of February. In special celebration of that Festival, a
contest is announced for related original poetry, hymns or drawings
relating to the Festival. A suitable prize will be put up by the
Pontiffical College under the auspices of Pontiff Tarquinius Caesar, who
will also prevail upon the Pontifex Maximus to award the prize(s) to be
issued.
Entries for the contest may be forwarded to either Pontiff Tarquinius
Caesar or myself. I additionally call upon the Curator Differum to
reserve space in the March issue of the Eagle Newsletter for the
winner(s) of the contest. I further call upon the former winners of the
Ludi Apollonares and Senator Graecus to offer themselves as judges for
this contest.
I ask all Citizens of Nova Roma to strongly consider this festival in
prayer and song and to commit the scenes therein to visual image as your
talent and love of the gods shall direct you.
As your Consul, and with the support of the Pontiff, we ask that you all
give serious consideration to this festival and to this contest, and we,
the Secular Government, give our most sincere thanks to the College of
Pontiffs for their generous offer to be such a major part of this
effort.
Valete, Most Respectfully;
Marcus Minucius Audens, Consul
in concert with
Gnaeus Tarquinius Caesar, Pontiff
Fair Winds and Following Seas!!!
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| Subject: |
Re: Finally after six months... |
| From: |
StarWreck@-------- |
| Date: |
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:34:36 EST |
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Salve!
Six Months is an unusually long period of time. However I was not even
notified that my application had been accepted (or my gentes had been
formed)... but early in December I received an email that was sent to all
citizens of Nova Roma to remind them of their voting code for themselves and
their gentes, otherwise I would not likely have known that I was a citizen.
Vale
Iulius Thompsonus
<< Salve All Nova Roman Citizens of Nova Roma,
I am very pleased to tell everyone, that after six long months and six times
filling
out the applications I'm finally a citizen. The great Censor Lucius
Cornelius
Sulla
has taken on pity on me.... ( probaly after all my complaining).. And I'd
like to thank
him for doing such a speedy job of it... Now I can take the steps of
becoming
a Vestal or at least try too.
Vale to All
Avalonia
>>
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| Subject: |
Amburbium |
| From: |
Razenna razenna@-------- |
| Date: |
Fri, 07 Jan 2000 22:28:05 -0800 |
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I just thought I would contribute a few quotes from a few sources
on this holy day of ritual purification.
This one is from the current edition of the Oxxford Classical
Dictionary:
AMBURBIUM, lustration for Rome, seldom so named ..., usually linked with
the Ambarvalia's lustration of the fields .... Since it appears in no
calendar
it may have been a movable festival... or, based on the infrequent
references,
all late, it may have been a rarely performed lustration ... which
anachronistically received its name by analogy with Ambarvalia.
H. Usener placed it ... on 2 February as ultimately Christianized into
Candlemas, unpersuavely despite ...[the opinion of another scholar].
Lucan (1.592-638) describes an _amburbium_ -- but clearly as an
extraordinary ceremony.
As usual it is H. H. Scullard who has the best take on
_Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic_ (pp82-3):
Amburbium
February was, as we have seen, a month of purification,
and so a ceremony to purify the city as a whole might be
expected. This was the Amburbium which was a movable feast,
but seems to have been held sometime in February: at any
rate that is where it was placed by Macrobius ... who says
that King Numa ordered the city to be lustrated in February
and sacrifice offered to teh Di Manes. The rites were
probably similar to thow of 'the beating of the bounds'
of the fields at the Ambivalia in May, which are better
known .... Servius ... merely says that the rite was so
called because the victim went round the city (urbem circuit
at amit victima). Probably a pig, a sheep and an ox were
led in procession around the boundaries of the city (pomerium?)
and were then offered in sacrifice with prayers to purify and
bless all that lay within the hallowed circle. Since we hear
little about the ceremony, its celebration may have become
somewhat irregular (though Romans did not lightly abandon
any of their traditional practices): at any rate the two
occaisions of its celebration mentioned in the sources refer
to periods of crisis. When Caesar was marching against the
city in 49 bc[e], the senatorial government in Rome, according
to the poet Lucan (5, 584ff), sent for an Etruscan soothsayer
who advised that 'the frightened citizen should march around
the city (urbem ambiri), and the pontiffs, who had the authority
to perform the ceremony, should purify the walls with solemn
lustration, and circle round the outer limit of the long
pomerium'. They were to be followed by a processionof lesser
priests dressed in the Gabinian style (that is with the toga
arranged to allow the arms free, a form of dressing used on
certain religious occaisions, as originally at Gabii),
the Vestal Virgins, the College of Fifteen (Quidecimviri),
the augurs and others, with the Salii and a flamen bringing
up the rear. An ox was sacrificed, but its entrails, when
examined, ofretold disaster and civil war. Lucan is clearly
describing some kind of _amburbium_, whether a special one that
was held i 49 or merely a figment of his poetic immagination.
The ceremony was still observed as latte as a.d. [c.e.] 271 when,
according to the Scriptores Historiae Augustae (Aurel. 20.3),
at a time of national danger the Books of Fate (the Sibylline
oracles) were consulted on 11 January: the city was to be
purified, hymns chanted, the Amburbium celebrated and the
Ambivalia proclaimed (lustra urbs, contata carmina,
Amburbium celebratum, Ambivalia promissa).
And that ends Scullard on this section. And that ends this
post. There are still other sources that are farily readily
available. The Adkins and Adkins _Dictionary of Roman Religion_
is available through the Nova Roma bookstore, as is the Adkins
and Adkins _Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome_. Theseboth have
decent entries on the Ambubium. Scullards is the most detailed
(including a section I have not quoted), but this Scllard book
is out of print.
The typos are my own.
Agonalia is this Sunday (V.ID.IAN.).
Take care.
Bene vale.
C. Aelius Ericius
Member of the College of Pontiffs
Augur
Senator
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