Cerealia

The Cerialia were a religious celebration of the Roman calendar of festivals in honor of the growth and agriculture goddess Ceres, which was committed on April 19, ie three days after the fordicidia (April 15 ) and before the Vinalia (April 23 ). Since the third century BC, the multi-day festival Ludi Cereris are known, which began on April 12 and were organized by the aediles. During the imperial period, there were also staged performances. Ovid tells in his fasting (Book IV) that flares supporting women recalled the search of Ceres after her abducted daughter Persephone in Hades; another act of worship in Ovid's narrative is questioned in its historicity: That one rushed foxes whose tails were bound in burning tow (sun symbol).

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