MYPHOLOGY

In Rome, unlike some other cultures, there was no special priestly class. The priests were officials who had been elected from among Roman citizens. They fully participated in public life and formed boards with a fixed range of duties. Collegiums of flamins, fecals, pontiffs, magnifiers, salieves, Arval brothers, garuspiks, augures and vestals are known. Flamins were called the servants of individual gods, and their collegium included fifteen people. Among the flamins, three were considered elders:...

Fortune-telling. Fortune-telling and the interpretation of omens played a very important role in both the private and public life of the Romans. The gods were asked about the outcome of any significant work, whether it was a military expedition or the construction of a building. These purposes were served by a well-calibrated system of fortune-telling, which was carried out by a special panel of august priests. The Augurs had great influence, and if the omens were bad, they could even overturn the law...

The house with all its inhabitants was managed by penitent spirits, who favored people. Their name comes from the Latin word penus, which means provisions or foodstuffs. Therefore, it is believed that originally the pencils represented a household barn or pantry. As the patrons of the storerooms, the penises were in charge of the supplies at home and used them along with other inhabitants, participating in home meals. During the meal at the common table, the pencils were thrown into the hearth...

Pomona was a goddess of woodfruits. It is said that she did not like either forests or fields and spent all the time in her garden taking care of fruit trees. Pomona's passion was all over her garden, but she kept the men away from her, no matter how hard they tried to seduce Pomona with satires. The most loved was the beautiful Pomona Vertumn, the god of the seasons, but she was also cold to him. Vertumn appeared before her differently: the way the reaper brought her compressed ears, the way the ploughman dragged a heavy deaf ear, the way the gardener appeared with a sickle in his hands ...

The ancients saw the woman mainly as the mother of the family protecting the house and children while the men were doing their men's work. Reproduction of the genus was crucial, as the survival of the community depended on the children in the future, so that traditions reinforced a great deal of respect for women as mothers and guardians of peace and order. As a result, many of the female deities we meet in archaic cultures are derived in varying degrees from the image of the mother goddess. One...

Mars and Quirin The cult of Mars was one of the most common throughout Italy. Many tribes called it after the first month of spring, and in antiquity and the first month of the new year. Initially, Mars was not built temples, and made sacrifices in sacred groves, in the holidays of Mars it was customary to clean the house of the laurel. Scientists interpret the image of Mars as a patron god of the tribe, to be more precise, we can say that each community, which chose him as its protector, had its own Mars...

God Saturn was revered by the Romans since ancient times and very widely, there were everywhere his sanctuaries, and Italy itself, according to legend, was originally called Saturn's land. Saturn was considered the god of fertile land and crops (his name comes from the Latin satus - sowing), but his image gradually merged with the figure of the Greek god Kronos, father of Zeus, whom he overthrew and concluded in the abyss of Tartar. In the minds of the Romans, this legend was transformed and sounded...

King Agnor cried and mourned for a long time, and could not accept the loss of his beloved daughter. He called his sons and told them with tears: - I will not rest until I see and hug my beloved daughter. Go on the road and find your poor sister. Under the fear of death Agenor forbade his sons to return home without Europe. The brothers gathered and set out on their way. First they went together, and then two of the brothers, Phoenix and Kilix, fell behind and founded their kingdoms, Phoenician and Cilicia, where they stayed...

I haven't forgotten Perseus, his patrons, Athena Pallada and Hermes. He made rich sacrifices to them. And in the royal palace everything is ready for a merry wedding. Eros and Hymen, the eternal companions of the lovers, flew in from Olympus on their light wings. They flutter merrily and joyfully among the flowers and garlands. A lot of guests gathered in the palace of Kefey, and people all fit and fit. Everybody would like to congratulate the young people and look at the young hero, who fought so bravely against the monster and saved them all from imminent death...

King Tantalus, son of Zeus and earthly woman Pluto, lived in Phrygia at that time. The gods loved Tantalus and gave him everything a man could wish for: strength, wealth and health. The gold-bearing river Pactola flowed through his fertile lands, and Tantalus could draw gold in handfuls when he wanted to. His gardens were full of juicy sweet fruits all year round, and his herds were grazing in green meadows. But not enough of this, the gods invited him to their house, and he feasted with them at the high Olympus...

At that time, there was a cunning and cunning hero named Sisyphus, son of the god Eola, the lord of all winds, who lived in Greece. None of the mortals could match him in cunning and cunning. Yes, that there are mortals - powerful gods and they fell into trouble when they dealt with Sisyphus. He did not even fear Zeus, the powerful thunderer. Zeus loved to kidnap beautiful girls and often did so. One day he kidnapped the beautiful Engina, one of the 12 daughters of the river god Ason. Sisyphus saw the Thunderer take the girl away and told her father...

No one can resist the will of the beautiful goddess Aphrodite. She can generously give happiness, or maybe even punish cruelly. Until now, people remember and pass on to each other a sad story that happened to the young Narcissus, the son of the river god Kefiss and the nymph Liriopa. Since childhood, Narcissus admired everyone for his amazing beauty. His parents knew that beauty does not always bring happiness to people, and appealed to the visionary Tiresias to tell them what is expected of their child in the future and how long he will live in the world...