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	Carmentalia - NovaRoma
		The Carmentalia was an ancient festival celebrated every year in honour of the nymph Carmenta (or Carmentis).
		It was said that later Numa Pompilius founded a sacred grove for Her beneath the Capitoline Hill.
		This source may indicate that while the Carmentalia held on 11 January was dedicated to Carmentis, that of 15 January was intended to honor Janus as guardian of the Porta Carmentalis.
	www.novaroma.org /nr/Carmentalia (949 words)

	Carmentalia
		The Carmentalia (January 11 and 15) was the festival of Carmentis, or Carmenta, a prophetic goddess who was the most important of the Camenae.
		Pierre Grimal (Dictionary of Classical Mythology) says Carmentis was regarded as a deity of procreation; she was invoked by two names, Prorsa (head first) and Postversa (feet first), the two positions in which a child can be born.
		Additional information about the Carmentalia is provided at this site.
	lonestar.texas.net /~robison/carmentalia.html (449 words)

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		The Carmentalia is a day which belongs to the goddess Carmenta.
		She was otherwise known as Metis, the Titaness of Wisdom.
		This is the final day of the Carmentalia which began January 11th in honor of the goddess Carmenta.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/RomanCalendar/jan11.htm (744 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 115 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Rome she had a priest attached to her, the flamen Car-mentalis, and a shrine near the gate under the Capitol, named after her the porta Ccir-mentalis.
		On this spot the Roman matrons celebrated in her honour the festival of the Carmentalia, the flamen and pontifex assisting.
		Two Carmentis, called Pomma or Antevorta, and Postvorta, were worshipped as her sisters and attendants.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0118.html (838 words)

	January
		Carmentalia festival of Carmenta, goddess of prophecy, attended by Porrima (Future) and Postuorta (Past).
		Women hold rites to benefit pregnant women and their children, especially with regard to their futures.
		Three men acting as Intercidona, with axhead, Picumnus, with pestal, and Deverra, with broom, rap at doors and windows around the outside of houses of infants.
	www.religioromana.net /calendar/calendar-january.htm (934 words)

	The Camenae, Roman Prophetic Water-Goddesses--nymph carmenta birth-goddess poetry charms water goddess roman goddess ...
		She was important enough to merit Her own priest, the flamen Carmentalis, and Her festival of the Carmentalia (January 11th and 15th) was celebrated by matrons, with Her flamen and the pontifex presiding.
		Through Her connection with prophecy and the Goddess Themis She was believed to know the future of newborn babies and was considered a type of Fate; Her priestesses were said to cast the fortunes of new-born children.
		At the Carmentalia these two aspects were especially celebrated; and given that the festival was held on the 11th and the 15th of January (not the 11th through the 15th of January), perhaps They were each given one day, Antevorta turning towards the past on the 11th, and Postvorta to the future on the 15th.
	www.thaliatook.com /OGOD/camenae.html (1174 words)

	Roman calendar
		Carmentalia; Carmenta, as a goddess of prophecy, attended by Porrima (Future) and Postuorta (Past).
		Legend that the women of Rome refused to perform as wives, in protest over not being allowed to ride in chariots.
		14 EN Carmentalia, Carmenta, as a goddess of childbirth.
	home.scarlet.be /mauk.haemers/collegium_religionis/calendar.htm (369 words)

	January
		Dionysian, Polytheist: The Carmentalia is a day which belongs to the goddess Carmenta.
		She was otherwise known as Metis, the Titaness of Wisdom.
		Dionysian, Polytheist: The Carmentalia celebrations continued this day in honor of the goddess Carmenta.
	www.heart7.net /date/january.htm (1906 words)

	midnight moonchild goddess of the month names
		This celebration, known as the Carmentalia honors the Goddess Carmenta.
		She may be otherwise known as Metis, the Titaness of Wisdom and in this wisdom is credited with the invention of the Greek alphabet, thus anything written with an alphabet will be of her influence.
		The Carmentalia features processions of mothers decorated with flowers, celebrating their achievement as mothers.
	www.midnightmoonchild.com /moonchildgoddessfeaturedpagearchivewinter.html (1367 words)

	carmentalia - Definitions from Dictionary.com
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	Roman Deities
		By the god Janus, Juturna was the mother of Fontus, the god of spring.
		Her festival, called Carmentalia, was celebrated on January 11.
		Fontus was the son of Janus, the god of passage, and of Juturna, the goddess of spring.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/roman.html (5178 words)

	Turning of Time Seen in Arrival of Spring
		Now legitimate only as a wife, dutiful daughter or lesser goddess, her attributes were often anointed upon other Gods.
		For example, Carmenta, Roman goddess of childbirth and prophecy was originally celebrated at her festival, the Carmentalia in January.
		Addressed by her adherents as "Postvorta and Antevorta," she was considered to "look both back and forward," a characteristic we now recognize in the Roman Janus.
	merganser.math.gvsu.edu /myth/turning.html (980 words)

	Romulus by Plutarch
		Romulus, on the other hand, adopted their long shields, and changed his own armour and that of all the Romans, who before wore round targets of the Argive pattern.
		Feasts and sacrifices they partook of in common, not abolishing any which either nation observed before, and instituting several new ones; of which one was the Matronalia, instituted in honour of the women, for their extinction of the war; likewise the Carmentalia.
		This Carmenta some think a deity presiding over human birth; for which reason she is much honoured by mothers.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Romulus/7.html (679 words)

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		The Carmentalia is a day which belongs to the goddess Carmenta.
		After arriving in Latium with her son, she went atop the Capitoline Hill and began prophesying.
		This is the second Carmentalia (the first was January 11th).
	www.highdown.reading.sch.uk /highdown/pupil/time/Roman/jan11.htm (300 words)

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		When Caesar took his men acroos the Rubicon, he opened the door for civil conflict.
		January 11 - The Roman feast day of the Carmentalia was celebrated on this date.
		The feast was in honor of Carmenta, a Roman goddess of childbirth and prophecy, as well as a patron of midwives.
	ancienthistory.suite101.com /blog.cfm/this_week_crossing_the_rubicon (189 words)

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