🪷 April 12th to 19th is the #Cerealia, the Roman Festival of #Ceres, Goddess of Agriculture, Grain, Fertility and Motherhood. Romans would bake slips of paper with oracles on them inside of balls of flour. Modern fortune cookies are a variant of this form of divination. Art: Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 🪷
Happy #Cerealia! To ensure a plentiful harvest, #Romans honored #Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, with sacrifices of grain, incense and pigs in an eight-day festival from 12th to 19th of April. Image: Empress Livia wreathed in the guise of the goddess Ceres. British Museum.
🪷 April 12th to 19th is the #Cerealia, the Roman Festival of #Ceres, Goddess of Agriculture, Grain, Fertility and Motherhood. Romans would bake slips of paper with oracles on them inside of balls of flour. Modern fortune cookies are a variant of this form of divination. Art: Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 🪷
