A Roman relief depicting a procession

The #ancient rituals of the #Argei took place in #Rome on 16 & 17th #March each year. Human effigies were collected from shrines by a procession of pontiffs & #Vestals , before being thrown into the River #Tiber.

Procession, #AraPacis

Today our fun friends in Ancient #Rome would have been getting down with #Argei.
You know, making human effigies out of straw and tossing them off a bridge into the #TiberRiver.

( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argei )