Tommorrow is the festival of the Founding of Rome
So to tommorrow is the annversity of the founding of Rome, April 21s 753 BC, I believe.
I intend to celebrate by using a version of this ritual: http://www.neosalexandria.org/rome_birthday.htm .
This infomation is from the Neos Alexandria calender:
Title: Natalis Urbis (translates as Birth of the City, roughly)
Date: Tuesday April 21, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The old festival of the foundation of Rome, the Parilia, which was a herdsmen's festival involving the driving of herds (especially of goats) between two bonfires for purification and protection, was celebrated to mark the beginning of the existence of the city of Rome. In the early 120s CE, Hadrian re-founded this festival as the Natalis Urbis (birthdate of the city), and also inaugurated his Temple of Venus and Roma on that date. Read poetry and literature having to do with the foundation of Rome (including tales of Romulus and Remus, and Virgil's Aeneid), write poems and prayers and sing songs to Roma, as well as other deities associated with Rome (Venus and Mars, Vesta, the Capitoline Triad of Juno, Minerva and Jupiter) as well as the Numen Augusti and any deified emperors one regards highly, and observe a re-foundation of the "empire" of your own life with commitments to love (i.e. Venus), and ask for protection (as it seems the goddess Roma was associated with protection in the Greek East as Rhuma)
I intend to celebrate by using a version of this ritual: http://www.neosalexandria.org/rome_birthday.htm .
This infomation is from the Neos Alexandria calender:
Title: Natalis Urbis (translates as Birth of the City, roughly)
Date: Tuesday April 21, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The old festival of the foundation of Rome, the Parilia, which was a herdsmen's festival involving the driving of herds (especially of goats) between two bonfires for purification and protection, was celebrated to mark the beginning of the existence of the city of Rome. In the early 120s CE, Hadrian re-founded this festival as the Natalis Urbis (birthdate of the city), and also inaugurated his Temple of Venus and Roma on that date. Read poetry and literature having to do with the foundation of Rome (including tales of Romulus and Remus, and Virgil's Aeneid), write poems and prayers and sing songs to Roma, as well as other deities associated with Rome (Venus and Mars, Vesta, the Capitoline Triad of Juno, Minerva and Jupiter) as well as the Numen Augusti and any deified emperors one regards highly, and observe a re-foundation of the "empire" of your own life with commitments to love (i.e. Venus), and ask for protection (as it seems the goddess Roma was associated with protection in the Greek East as Rhuma)