Roman fresco showing ancestral ritual; statuette of a lar

Roman fresco showing ancestral ritual; statuette of a lar

Happy #Caristia - This #Roman holiday was held #OTD 22 Feb at the end of #Parentalia. Families gathered together celebrating family love & offer food & incense to the #Lares (household deities). Disagreements were set aside.

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Pompei fresco depicting offerings

Statuette of Lar, Getty.

Today our Fun Friends in the #RomanEmpire would have been throwing down because it would have been the start of the #Parentalia, the nine-day festival honoring the family ancestors.

( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenta... )

🪷 The #Parentalia or dies parentales is a 9-day Roman feast honoring family ancestors 13 Feb - 21 Feb, ending with the #Feralia & offerings to the dead. Ovid says you should also include homeless spirits. Make small pop-up temporary shrines at the curb to give them comfort. 🪷

Parentalia * Feb. 13–21: Festival honoring our ancestors

The Roman poet Ovid writes:

Now ghostly spirits and the entombed dead wander,
Now the shadow feeds on the nourishment that's offered.
But it only lasts till there are no more days in the month…

#Pagan #Parentalia

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Parentalia

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Anyone else spend days/weeks writing the perfect ritual script only to not feel like actually performing it when the date comes? I love writing/creating rituals but actually making myself do them is a whole lot of work. #witchsky #Hellenismos #familyday #parentalia

Today our Fun Friends in the #RomanEmpire would have been throwing down because it would have been the start of the #Parentalia, the nine-day festival honoring the family ancestors.

( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenta... )

#Parentalia.
Roman festival for honoring one's dead parents. Families gathered among the tombs of loved ones and made offerings or sacrifices of grain and wine to their souls.
#parents #WeWillMeetAgain #Mom #Dad

🪷 The #Parentalia or dies parentales is a 9-day Roman feast honoring family ancestors 13 February - 21 February, ending with the #Feralia & offerings to the dead. Ovid says you should also include homeless spirits. Make small pop-up temporary shrines at the curb to give them comfort. 🪷