Tiberinus (god)

Tiberinus (also Tiberinus pater ) is in Roman mythology the river god of the Tiber. Tiberinus is actually an adjectival form and supplement to Tiberinus deus ("God Tiber " ) or Tiberinus pater ( " father Tiber "). According to Servius is in accordance with the flow in the religious context Tiberinus, poetic and commonplace Tibris called Tiber.

The cult of Tiberinus has apparently been introduced by Romulus, the name appears Tiberinus but in the context of the very old, the Tiber applicable feast of Volturnalia on 27 August do not. The Feast of Tiberinus on December 8 is the Feast of the Foundation is located on an island sanctuary of the god Tiber. Another sanctuary there were in Ostia. Whether celebrated on June 7 Fisherman's Festival ( ludi piscatorii ) had relation to the cult of Tiberinus is unclear.

Tiberinus also appears at a central point in the founding myth of Rome. In the Aeneid of Virgil Tiberinus speaks in dreams to the sleeping on the river bank Aeneas and promises him the foundation of the city to the point where he is in the morning find a wild sow with 30 piglets, and he tells him with Evander, the leader of a colony of Arcadians to ally who had founded near the city palatium ( at today's Palatine Hill ). Virgil describes the river god dressed in a grass coat and on her head a crown of reeds supporting. Ovid also the schilfbekrönte Tiberinus explains the poet the origin of the ritual of Argei, in which on the Ides of May by the Pons Sublicius were thrown out of straw men into the river.

One young according to tradition, is the name of the river on Tiberinus Silvius, king of Alba Longa, go back, who fell during a battle in the river and drowned while. Previously, the river Albula should have been called.

Based on a story of Ennius Ilia was, of Amulius, king of Alba Longa, sentenced to drowning in the Tiber, as they had become a Vestal Virgin, the mother of Romulus and Remus. Ilia is identified with Rhea Silvia, but as a daughter of Aeneas and Lavinia. The River God saved Ilia from drowning and makes the elevated to goddess to his wife. He also rescued the abandoned on the Tiber twins from drowning.

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