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  Angerona - LoveToKnow 1911
Modern scholars regard her as a goddess akin to Ops, Acca Larentia and Dea Dia; or as the goddess of the new year and the returning sun (according to Mommsen, ab angerendo = are) roi, ava Apeo Oat rae it Xtov).
The priests offered sacrifice in the temple of Volupia, the goddess of pleasure, in which stood a statue of Angerona, with a finger on her mouth, which was bound and closed (Macrobius i.
She was worshipped as Ancharia at Faesulae, where an altar belonging to her has been recently discovered.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Angerona   (127 words)

  
 FanFiction.Net - The Black Moon Contract, a Ranma fanfic
Angerona took all of it in and her plan of action came to her immediately.
Angerona was helping Kaede and Aiko to their feet and deciding her next course of action when the fl Crystal in the middle of the yard glowed.
Angerona fell towards the ground with a tear in her eyes as Kunou’s deadly blade reached its mark.
www.fanfiction.net /s/2779421/13   (3881 words)

  
 Angerona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Angerona's rites were celebrated on December 21st (the winter solstice) and were known as the Angeronalia or the Divalia.
The Roman Angerona is based on an earlier Etruscan goddess also named Angerona.
In art, Angerona appears as a woman with her mouth closed and her index finger across her lips.
www.musesrealm.net /deities/angerona.html   (74 words)

  
 Angerona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Roman mythology, Angerona or Angeronia was an old Roman goddess, whose name and functions are variously explained.
According to ancient authorities, she was a goddess who relieved men from pain and sorrow, or delivered the Romans and their flocks from angina (quinsy).
Also she was a protecting goddess of Rome and the keeper of the sacred name of the city, which might not be pronounced lest it should be revealed to her enemies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angerona   (269 words)

  
 OFCGJ: Newsletter Article: Archetypal Silence
Angerona, the protecting deity of the ancient city of Rome, is imaged with a bandaged mouth and with a finger to her lips commanding silence.
Angerona is the goddess of the Winter Solstice, the moment many ancient cultures celebrated as the opportunity for rebirth and renewal, a moment often reserved for the celebration of initiation rites, which marked the rebirth of the individual as well as the tribe and, by extension, the cosmos.
Angerona is said to be the same as Sige, the goddess Silence, who in the Gnostic creation stories, for example, in the Pistis Sophia, is the mother of Sophia.
www.ofj.org /newsletter/2001/03-sardello.html   (880 words)

  
 Angerona, the Roman Goddess of the Inner Voice--angerona silence winter solstice death goddess winter goddess secret ...
Angerona is a Roman Goddess with an iconography so odd that not even the ancients knew quite what She was about.
One legend credits Angerona with driving away a disease called angina, which had plagued both men and animals until sacrifices were made to Her.
As Angerona had Her festival (called the Angeronalia or Divalia) on the 21st of December, some modern scholars believe She is the goddess of the winter solstice, who helps the sun get through this dark, difficult period.
www.thaliatook.com /OGOD/angerona.html   (504 words)

  
 Angerona: A Love Story of a German and a Slave | The Cuban Traditions Site
The remains of an old coffee plantation named Angerona are placed in Artemisa, a municipality in the southern part of Havana, inserted in the scenery of the Cuban countryside.
The implacable force of time and oblivion seized Angerona and the echoes and remembrances of the intense love between Sochay and Ursula faded.
Angerona the Roman goddess of delicate figure sculpted in Carrara white marble witnesses the old columns, walls and romances; and she watches as sacred temple, a legend of love with the coffee aroma.
www.cuban-traditions.com /cultural_traditions/angerona_a_love_story/angerona_a_love_story_of_a_german_and_a_slave.html   (563 words)

  
 fj9
Angerona turned toward Theo as she continued; “Leaving an open wound unattended to is simply inviting a serious infection.
As the young men disappeared into the dark city, Angerona returned her attention to the lone individual sitting atop the small hill close to the edge of the pond.
Angerona sat down beside him with a thoughtful expression on her kind face.
www.geocities.com /hfanelia/fj9.htm   (2160 words)

  
 Cuba: Slave's Route: History and Legend in Angerona
The usual destinations for African slaves were coffee farms such as Angerona, located in the territory that is known today as the western province of Havana.
According to experts, Angerona, where reality and legend mix, was the most important coffee farm in western Cuba and the second major estate in the country.
The main building was a true exponent of neoclassic style, marked by arches and columns in the façade, which was adjusted to the characteristics of the place, in addition to verandas and railings.
www.dtcuba.com /Showreport.aspx?c=277&lng=2   (381 words)

  
 Angerona by =mintjam on deviantART
Angerona was the Roman goddess of Silence, Secrecy, and the Winter Solstice, so I felt the name was appropriate for a character with winter themed powers.
The halberd itself is loosely based on Italian style halberds (which I felt was fitting, since Angerona was a Roman goddess).
Angerona is usually represented by a gagged woman with her finger to her lips...
mintjam.deviantart.com /art/Angerona-44130321   (203 words)

  
 [Angerona] | [All the best Angerona resources at ipod.topicsware.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEARThe Angerona Building has this stone elephant on its roof and it was built in 1899.
This Day in Ancient Historyante diem xii kalendas januarias Saturnalia continues (day 5) Divalia Angeronae -- Angerona was a goddess named for the disease angina (she apparently had remedies for it) who also represented the 'secret name' of Rome, which presumably...
Angerona References References This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
ipod.topicsware.com /December_21/Angerona   (491 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 177 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Of Cyzicus, left by Antiochus the Great in India, to convey the treasures promised him by the Indian king Sophagasenus.
He also thinks that the statue of the goddess of anguish was placed in the temple of the goddess of delight, to indicate that the latter should exercise her influence upon the former, and change sorrow into joy.
Angeronae deae) give an his­torical origin to the worship of this divinity, for they say, that at one time men and beasts were visited by a disease called angina, which disap­peared as soon as sacrifices were vowed to Ange-rona.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0186.html   (972 words)

  
 Concordia Angerona Home - GuildPortal Guild Hosting
Concordia Angerona is a secretive and often misunderstood guild founded many moons ago by a group of dwarves, elves, gnomes, and humans in an effort to promote the balance on Azeroth and Kalimdor through the teachings of the goddesses Concordia and Angerona.
Angerona, the goddess of the Winter Solstice and secrecy, is the darkness which guides the guild to work quietly through dark deeds in order to promote the balance.
It is through her that the guild understands that light cannot exist with darkness; and that the same hand that heals is capable of killing.
www.guildportal.com /Guild.aspx?GuildID=51650&TabID=452284   (574 words)

  
 Krystal Illusions
Angerona is portrayed with her mouth bound and sealed, her finger raised to her mouth in a gesture of warning.
The ancients thought names were powerful; the commonly known name of an individual or a community was often not the real name at all, the real name being a closely guard secret.
Bellona's priests were recruited from the gladiators, and emissaries were received at her temple.
www.angelfire.com /goth/krystalillusions/roman.html   (622 words)

  
 The Winchester Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The estate at the intersection of Piccadilly Street and Fairmont Avenue was built in 1799 and was an asylum for the mentally ill in the early 1800s.
The “Angerona” estate is one of the historic landmarks of Winchester, old residents of the City state today this was built in 1799 and was used for many years thereafter as an asylum for the mentally deranged.
In the house, at the time of its destruction today, were to be found many of the asylum instruments used then and which were employed in later years for the handling of slaves.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/050919/Area_past.asp   (610 words)

  
 Hail, Angerona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
She is associated with Ops, Winter solstice falls in the middle of the Roman festival of Saturnalia—a time of revelry, feasting, role reversals between masters and servants, and generally partying.
Perhaps Angerona's observance was to take a moment of silence, to escape from the excesses of Saturnalia even while in the House of Pleasure, to reflect on the joys of life and the reality of death, on the delicate balance of light and dark.
Her name as Agenoria has been given to an early sewing machine, as she was a goddess of diligence, and to a network security system as the protector of secrets.
findagoddess.com /display.php?HERNAME=Angerona   (429 words)

  
 St.Thomas University: Problem 2007
Vocero was in Angerona as a correspondent for The Lion Times, a border war broke out between Angerona and its neighbor to the south, Piraguazu.
Vocero remained at his post in Angerona, reporting on the hostilities, gathering information for his stories from primary and secondary sources, including the 6 most widely read newspapers in the Angeronan media.
However, the accounts reported in the Angeronan and Piraguazuan press were that the two cabinet ministers allegedly circumvented the embargo by signing off on legal arms shipments to other countries and then purportedly diverted the shipments to Angerona using counterfeit end-user certificates that falsely declared the weapons to be intended for other countries.
www.stu.edu /problem-2007-article-2552.html   (2181 words)

  
 Baby names - ANGERONA
ANGERONA does not currently rank in the top 1000 names.
See the popularity of the baby name Angerona in the U.S. Other countries: The name ANGERONA also used in other countries.
See the popularity of the baby name Angerona in other countries.
www.yeahbaby.com /baby-name.php?name=Angerona   (141 words)

  
 Angerona
Angerona prunaria, Larvae of North-European Lepidoptera [Kimmo Silvonen]
Angerona prunaria, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Keep in mind that the taxononic information is copied from various sources, and may include many inaccuracies.
www.funet.fi /pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/ennominae/angerona/index.html   (115 words)

  
 Angerona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ella no era esclava, pero nunca podría ser el ama de Angerona; en vida de Don Cornelio, ninguna mujer lo fue, independientemente de las relaciones íntimas con otras mujeres.
Esos esclavos que por cientos habitaron Angerona, por cientos yacen sus restos en esa tierra.
Todo eso es Angerona, no fue posible sin la unión de personas de esos tres continentes: Europa, América y Africa, y la de cuatro culturas y sus tradiciones: la alemana, la haitiana, la africana y la naciente cubana.
www.angerona.cult.cu /angweb/home.htm   (430 words)

  
 CUBANOW - The Digital Magazine of Cuban Arts and Culture
The German immigrant, owner of Angerona, Cornelio Souchay, was mistaken for some time by historians to be French because the remarkable production levels reached at Angerona was characteristic of coffee plantations established by French planters who had escaped the Haitian Revolution, bringing part of their slave force to
Souchay's refinement and the improvements in treatment of the slaves was told by outstanding Cuban writers, who suffered the acute contradictions of the time.
The praise to Angerona, and other coffee plantations, rounded the idea of a "less cruel" slavery than that predominant in sugar plantations, which were literal hells, killing the enslaved population and favored the boom of the slave trade, both the legal and illegal that reached aggravated levels of criminality.
www.cubanow.net /global/loader.php?secc=8&cont=films/num00/Films_Roble.htm   (2500 words)

  
 ANGERONA - Online Information article about ANGERONA
city, which might not be pronounced lest it should be revealed to her enemies; it was even thought that Angerona itself was' this name.
Modern scholars regard her as a goddess akin to Ops, Acca Larentia and Dea Dia; or as the goddess of the new See also:
pleasure, in which stood a statue of Angerona, with a See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /ANC_APO/ANGERONA.html   (322 words)

  
 Ancestors of Tonya Nunn:Information about Angerona Choate
Angerona Choate (daughter of Silas Choate and Catherine Mccameron) was born October 10, 1852 in Sequoyah District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, and died Aft.
Children of ANGERONA Choate and William Ragsdale are:
On Ellen Choate's Application for Indian Roll Number she listed the name and the fact she was alive when her application which was dated 1/26/1907.
www.genealogy.com /users/m/e/r/Tonya-Mercer/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0146.html   (217 words)

  
 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook
The Divalia was a feast held on the 2lst of December, in honour of the goddess Angerona, whence it is also called Angeronalia.
On the day of this festival the pontifices performed sacrifices in the temple of Voluptia, or the goddess of joy and pleasure, who, some say, was the same with Angerona, and supposed to drive away all the sorrow and chagrin of life.
The feast of Laurentinalia was held on the 23rd of December, but was ordered to be observed twice a year by Augustus; by some supposed to be in honour of the Lares, a kind of domestic genii, or divinities, worshipped in houses, and esteemed the guardians and protectors of families, supposed to reside in chimney-corners.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/11408/3.html   (375 words)

  
 Angerona: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
...Angerona Angerona In Roman mythology, Angerona was a goddess of secrecy, the...Divalia Divalia or Angeronalia Angeronalia Angeronalia on December 21.
Post a link to definition / meaning of " Angerona " on your site.
www.encyclopedian.com /an/Angerona.html   (117 words)

  
 Jackson County, WV Biographies: sayretj.txt
Theodore Joseph Sayre was born near Angerona in Jack-
Angerona; John O., a farmer at Evans in Jackson County;
Wesley Sayre was born at Angerona in 1844, and spent
www.wileygenealogy.com /~usbios/bios/wv/jackson/sayretj.txt   (542 words)

  
 The Whitehaven sailing ship Angerona, built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company
The Angerona was an iron full-rigged ship built by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company at Whitehaven in November 1874.
The Angerona was owned in Norway in 1918, named Hippen.
In 1929 she was sent to a shipbreaking yard in Italy.
www.mightyseas.co.uk /marhist/whitehaven/wsbc/angerona.htm   (79 words)

  
 High Resolution Image: Butterfly Angerona prunaria, families Geommetridae. - Dreamstime
High Resolution Image: Butterfly Angerona prunaria, families Geommetridae.
The photo is made in the Moscow area.
angerona, area, brown, butterfly, figure, geometridae, glade, grass, insecta, july, leaf, lepidoptera, light, moscow, nature, prunaria, russia, spots, strips, summer, the, wings, wood, yellow
www.dreamstime.com /butterflyangeronaprunariafamiliesgeommetridae-image492771   (89 words)

  
 Allakhazam's World of Warcraft Character Profiles
The possible repercussions of it falling into the wrong hands are unthinkable.
And you, Angerona, are the only one with a key.
You must defeat him, Angerona, or else he will continue enslaving the spirits of our fallen brothers, robbing them of their rightful rest and destroying what little remains of Kirin'Var.
wow.allakhazam.com /profile.html?212582   (1232 words)

  
 Amazon.com: ANGERONA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Themis Secrecy: Zodiac: Scorpio Invoke: Angerona; Horus Plant:...
is the same as the Angerona mentioned by Pliny at Nat.
goddess who feeds unborn children Angerona goddess of secrecy and protector...
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=ANGERONA&index=blended&page=1   (840 words)

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