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| | From:  myckkia (Original Message) | Sent: 4/23/2006 9:55 PM |
Today's Goddess: Diana
Festival of Diana (Rome)
Themes: Fertility; Children; Providence; Abundance; Harvest
Symbols: Moon; Water; Forest Items; Sun
About Diana: This Roman goddess embodies the moon's fertility and
watery aspects,
along with the sun's protective and nurturing power over the forests
and its creatures.
On this day she was celebrated in Rome, and she will be remembered in
our hearts
as the huntress who helps us capture the spiritual "food" we need. To Do Today: Starting on August 13, the Romans had a weeklong festival
for Diana,
praying to her for the harvest's bounty, and to turn damaging storms
away. The traditional
place to leave an offering of fruit or vines for her is in the forest,
or at a crossroads. As you do, if any stone or leaf catches your eye, pick it up and carry
it as a charm
that will keep Diana's power with you that entire day. Come night,
release the gift to
flowing water or back to the earth with a prayer of thanks and a wish
for one of Diana's
attributes that you wish to develop in your life.
By Patricia Telesco ~ From "365 Goddess" and GrannyMoon's Morning Feast |
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| | | From: myckkia | Sent: 7/24/2006 4:55 AM |
Diana (Roman) The Classical western image of Diana is a maiden bearing a quiver and bow, who runs nude or in a hunting tunic through the moonlit forest with her pack of hounds. However, the Roman Diana was only depicted in this fashion after the Romans conquered Greece and assimilated their original Italian Diana into the powerful figure of Artemis, the Greek maiden Goddess of the hunt and moon. Diana was first worshipped outdoors under the open sky. Diana's name seems to have been derived from the Indo-European word for "light". Possibly she was the Roman Goddess of both the moon and sun. For although the Etruscans of northern Italy had the sun God, Usil, and another young sun God, Apulu, the Romans apparently did not. The sun God, Apollo, was imported to the Roman pantheon from Greece during the Classical era--along with the maiden huntress image for Diana. Yet in Rome, on Aventine Hill, Diana's temple still had an ancient image that depicted her as a many-breasted mother of nature--similar to Diana of Ephesus. Women flocked to her temple at Aventine Hill to request aid in child bearing. The whole figure of Diana is complex and rich indeed. She was known as Diana Trivia: Diana on the earth, Luna in the sky, and Proserpine in the underworld. At her shrine at Nemi, near Aricia, she formed another trinity with her servant and assistant midwife, Egeria the water nymph, and Virbius, a woodland God. One of her epithets was Diana Nemorisis or Diana of the Grove. Diana's feast day was August 15, some sources say August 13. It was deemed to be the birthday of the Goddess. Reportedly women would each bake a cake for the household in Diana's honor, around which white candles were set. A procession of women, with hounds on leashes, would journey to Aricia to offer thanks in Diana's sacred grove and request the Goddess's continued aid and a harvest free of storms. Diana's festival in mid August was a holiday for Roman slaves. In modern Italy, August 15 is a feast day of the Virgin Mary. The feast is known as the Ferragosto. It celebrates the Virgin Mary's assumption into heaven and her coronation as Queen of Heaven. Whole villages participate or watch the procession in which the image of the Virgin is carried through the streets. http://users.erols.com/jesterbear/notes/goddesses.html | |
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| | | From: myckkia | Sent: 8/25/2006 1:17 PM |
Goddess~A~Day 8/13 
Festival of Diana (Rome) Diana Themes: Fertility; Children; Providence; Abundance; Harvest Symbols: Moon; Water; Forest Items; Sun 
About Diana: This Roman goddess embodies the moon's fertility and watery aspects, along with the sun's protective and nurturing power over the forests and its creatures. On this day she was celebrated in Rome, and she will be remembered in our hearts as the huntress who helps us capture the spiritual "food" we need. To Do Today: Starting on August 13, the Romans had a weeklong festival for Diana, praying to her for the harvest's bounty, and to turn damaging storms away. The traditional place to leave an offering of fruit or vines for her is in the forest, or at a crossroads. As you do, if any stone or leaf catches your eye, pick it up and carry it as a charm that will keep Diana's power with you that entire day. Come night, release the gift to flowing water or back to the earth with a prayer of thanks and a wish for one of Diana's attributes that you wish to develop in your life. It is also customary to light some fire source to honor her on August 15 or anytime during the festivities. Afterward, to generate this goddess's physical or figurative fertility within you, follow Roman convention and wash your hair with specially prepared water (water to which just a little milk is added so that it looks white, like the moon). If you have children, doing this for them incurs Diana's protection over their lives. By Patricia Telesco~From "365 Goddess" |
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