Ludi Megalenses 2761 AUC (Nova Roma)/MM Certamen
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Salvete omnes!
Welcome to the Magna Mater Certamen Historicum. If you did not get a chance to answer the Day 1 Questions, you may still enter the contest.
There are 3 sets of 10 questions each. All answers must be recieved no later than Midnight Rome time on April the 7th. First, Second and Third place will be presented with a Ludi Cultural Award Medal with neck ribbon.
All answers to the Certamen will be announced on April 10th with the Final Results, so send in your answers today!
Send your answers to: lucius_vitellius_triarius@yahoo.com
Day 1 Questions
1. When Cybele was worshipped in Phrygia, she was depicted as a seated woman, flanked by what?
2. As a small child, the Magna Mater was put out into the wilderness to die, but instead of killing her, who nurtured her and helped her grow up into an intelligent, beautiful and headstrong woman?
3. What type of musical instruments did the Magna Mater invent?
4. Who did Cybele fall in love with and what happened to both of them?
5. Who led the cult of the Magna Mater?
6. What were the names of the two major fraternities that most of the worshippers of the Magna Mater organized into?
7. What language was the liturgy of the cult of the Magna Mater in?
8. What geographic features were sacred to the Magna Mater, and where her temples were often built near?
9. What sacred structure is built on top of the original temple of the Magna Mater in Rome?
10. What names were used by the Arabians for the Magna Mater?
Day 2 Questions
11. What did the major festival to the Magna Mater on March 25th represent?
12. What were the ceremonial events that the Cannophori carried out on the March 25th Festival?
13. How was each temple to the Magna Mater organized in relation to the other temples?
14. What were the four (4) priestly ranks in the Magna Mater Temple, from highest to lowest status?
15. How were new initiates of the cult inducted into the priesthood?
16. What was the name used by the Greeks to represent the Magna Mater?
17. What was the name used by the Babylonians to represent the Magna Mater?
18. What was the name used by the Sumerians to represent the Magna Mater?
19. What types of offerings were especially reserved for the Magna Mater?
20. When and why was it decided that the Magna Mater had to come to Rome?
