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	Salii - LoveToKnow 1911
		SALII, the "dancers," an old Italian priesthood, said to have been instituted by Numa for the service of Mars, although later tradition derived them from Greece.
		They were originally twelve in number, called Salii Palatini to distinguish them from a second college of twelve, Salii Agonales or Collini, said to have been added by Tullus Hostilius; the Palatini were consecrated to Mars, the Collini to Quirinus.
		On the 1st, they marched in procession through the city, dressed in an embroidered tunic, a brazen breastplate and a peaked cap; each carried a sword by his side and a short staff in his right hand, with which the shield, borne on the left arm, was struck from time to time.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Salii (439 words)

	ROMAN FESTIVALS AND GAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The festival began with the sacrifice of two goats and a dog, then the bloody knife was touched to the foreheads of two youths of illustrious descent who must smile as they are touched, and afterwards, the blood was wiped from their faces with wool dipped in milk.
		The Lupercal, where the festival was celebrated, lay at the foot of the Aventine Hill, and was where the she-wolf was reputed to have reared Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome.
		The festival was also associated with the opening of the campaign season; during this time the arms, horses and trumpets of the Army would be ceremoniously purified at Rome.
	www.roman-britain.org /festival.htm (995 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Greek & Roman Mythology (S) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Greek and Roman Mythology (S) The Salii were a college of priests at ancient Rome associated with the worship of Mars.
		At the festival of Mars, which was held on March the first and following days, they went dancing through the city, carrying the sacred shields.
		It was held in the middle of December from the 17th to the 24th, and was originaly a rustic harvest-home.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /D1S.HTM (873 words)

	Festivals
		The Latin Festival lasted 3-4 days and had to take place early in the year since it required that the consuls still be in Rome prior to leaving on campaign.
		Festival to Carmentis, the prophetess and mother of Evander, later seen a goddess of childbirth.
		It was a festival to the god of boundaries and probably originated in the country where farmers would meet their neighbors at the borders to their lands, agree on them and leave small sacrifices that their lands would not be invaded by any form of evil.
	histmyst.org /festivals.html (4832 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Festival du printemps pour les enfants en France où des bateaux miniatures en pin ornés de bougies sont envoyés sur la Moselle, qui symbolise la 'mer de vie'.
		Festival annuel appelé Hiketeria célébré en l'honneur du dieu Apollon.
		Festival appelé 'Le jour des Reines' en Égypte, célébrant Hatchepsout, Néfertiti et Cléopâtre, qui étaient aussi vues comme des déesses.
	www.chez.com /ladivine/textes/cal.htm (11242 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was the festival of the lares of the crossroads, held to mark the end of the agricultural year.
		A festival of Maia was also on 15 May, because she was confused with the Greek goddess Maia, mother of Hermes.
		This festival was replaced by Christmas, and many of the festivities and customs of the Saturnalia (such as it being a time of enjoyment, cheerfulness and goodwill, lighting of candles and the giving of gifts) were absorbed into the Christian festival.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAR0897 (3372 words)

	Religion
		The consualia (celebrating the festival of Consus and the famous 'rape of the Sabine women'), which was held on 21 August, also was the main event of the chariot racing year.
		The festival of Vesta took place in June and, lasting for a week, it was an altogether calmer affair.
		As a more bizarre part of this festival, all mill-donkeys were given a day of rest on 9 June, as well as being decorated with garlands and loaves of bread.
	www.roman-empire.net /religion/religion.html (4894 words)

	CLASSICS 222, NOTES ON OGILVIE (2): ROMAN CALENDAR AND RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS
		Festival especially grand because April 21 is also anniversary of the founding of Rome.
		The Latin Festival (Feriae Latinae), on the Alban Mount, led by the consuls.
		This festival was traditionally said to be the occasion for the Rape of the Sabine Women.
	web.utk.edu /~cpcraig/ogilvie2.html (644 words)

	Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Festival to Carmentis, the prophetess and mother of Evander, later seen a goddess of childbirth.
		It was a festival to the god of boundaries and probably originated in the country where farmers would meet their neighbors at the borders to their lands, agree on them and leave small sacrifices that their lands would not be invaded by any form of evil.
		Also, as part of the festivities, the normally-bound statue of Saturnus in the Forum was unfettered for the duration of the festival.
	spotlightongames.com /roman/festivals.html (4832 words)

	Pacific Magazine: Power & Pride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Salii acted as Ibedul for a year while also representing her elderly grandmother, who was the queen.
		The daughter of the late Lazarus Salii, a former President, she received her law degree from the University of Denver in Colorado in 1993.
		Salii, who is 36, is often reminded that she’s not “old enough” for the job.
	www.pacificmagazine.net /issue/2001/06/01/power--pride (1471 words)

	LacusCurtius • Roman Religion — The Salian Priests (Smith's Dictionary, 1875)
		The distinguishing dress of the Salii was an embroidered tunic bound with a brazen belt, the
		Besides, however, the praises of Mamurius, the verses, which the Salii sang, appear to have contained a kind of theogony, in which the praises of all the celestial deities were celebrated, with the exception of Venus (Macrob.
		At the conclusion of the festival the Salii were accustomed to partake of a splendid entertainment in the temple of Mars, which was proverbial for its excellencec (Suet.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Salii.html (808 words)

	Festival of the Salii Definition / Festival of the Salii Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Festival of the Salii Definition / Festival of the Salii Research
		The "jumping priests," or Salii12 aristocratic young men were co-opted as members of the priesthood of the Salii.
		On March 21st, the Salii marched to the regium.
	www.elresearch.com /Festival_of_the_Salii (279 words)

	Feriae Marti
		The Feriae Marti (NP - "Festival of Mars") was celebrated through most of the month of March, beginning on the Kalends, with repeated rituals in honor of the god conducted by the Salii (the "Leaping Priests" or the "Dancing Priests") until the 24th of the Month.
		The Salii were a lesser priesthood (a sodalitas (sodales - 'companion') vs. the major collegia) comprised of two groups of 12 men, the Palatini (especially devoted to Mars) and the Collini (especially devoted to Quirinus).
		After their processionals, the Salii retired to a feast of fairly luxurious standards (there are stories of the Emperor Claudius skipping out on a palace dinner party to join the Salii).
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/marti.htm (994 words)

	march (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The annual Hindu festival of Holi is held in India on this date to celebrate Spring and to commemorate the burning death of the child-eating, she-demon known as Holika.
		Spring Equinox (which is also known as Festival of the Trees, Alban Eilir, Ostara, and the Rite of Eostre) is a fertility rite celebrating the birth of Spring and the reawakening of life from the Earth.
		The festival, which is ancient in origin, reaches a climax when thousands of pilgrims gather at the volcano temple to observe animal sacrifices made to happease the god Rudra.
	members.fortunecity.com /carridwyn/march.html (2390 words)

	Roman Deities
		The festival was held in May 15, along with his mother Maia.
		Nothing else is known about her, except that her festival was held on February 17, on the same day that was sacred to Quirinus.
		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)

	religion
		Her festival, the Matronalia, is celebrated in March on the Kalends.
		Her festival is the Vestalia, held on June 7, when Her temple is open to all mothers who bring plates of food.
		His priests were dancing warriors, the Salii, who sang their war-songs in the streets during his festivals.
	www.enjoy.org /hstech/thinkquest02/Rome/religion.htm (1791 words)

	March
		Junoalia- a festival of the Roman goddess Juno.
		The Salii (priests of Mars) dance in the comitium It is a ritual preparation for the season's coming military campaigns.
		Old Sumerian festival celebrating the return of Dumuzi (God of Life and Death) from the Underworld to be with Inanna (Goddess of Life) for the verdant part of the year.
	syrylynrainbowdragon.tripod.com /march.html (946 words)

	HISTORY: The Roman Republic
		They went in procession through the city (stopping) at certain places to perform an elaborate dance and sing their ancient hymn, which was so old that the words were mostly unintelligible even to the performers, in the period of the late Republic.
		Another festival included a horse race, at the end of which, one of the horses (called the "October Horse") was decapitated and its head covered with cakes as a sacrifice to the Grain God (Grimal 179).
		The Festival of Vestia was celebrated on June ninth, and the Virgins prepared special grain and salt cakes, called mola salsa, as offerings to the Goddess.
	www.sibyllineorder.org /history/hist_rome2.htm (784 words)

	Flamen Martialis Homepage
		The Salii ("jumpers"), who served both Quirinus and Mars, derived their name from the procession through the streets of the city which they completed by jumping the entire way and singing the Carmen Saliare.
		The Equirriae were two festivals celebrated early in the year, on 27th of Februarius and the 14th of Martius.
		The sacred shields, or ancilia, were carried in procession by the Salii on several occasions during the month of Martius up to the 23rd day, when the military trumpets (tubae) were ceremonially cleansed (Tubilustrum).
	www.geocities.com /brian_bleich/Flamen.html (805 words)

	Fasti
		In harmony with this theory of the Salii we may conjecture that the leaps from which the Salii took their name were supposed to promote the growth of the crops by sympathetic magic; it cannot be without significance that in their hymns these dancing priests named, and probably invoked, Saturn, the god of sowing.
		The festival was a New Year festival; for March was the first month of the old Roman year, and the Ides of March was the first full moon of the New Year, a very appropriate day for good wishes and prayers for that and for many years to follow.
		A festival called the Portunalia was held in his honour on the seventeenth of August; it is mentioned in many ancient calendars, of which three (the Amiternine, the Valensian, and the Allifanine) add a note explaining that the Portunalia was a festival celebrated in honour of Portunus at the Aemilian bridge.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/frazer3.htm (13975 words)

	Feriae Marti with Senex Caecilius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The celebration began with a procession of the Salii, the priests of Mars who performed ritual dances in full armor and carried the sacred shields, and it was repeated on March 9.
		The former was a horse-racing festival to honor Mars; the latter, a festival to honor Mamurius Veturius, legendary maker of the sacred shields.
		The final day of the festival was the Tubilustrium (March 23) when the trumpets used in the sacred rites were purified.
	lonestar.texas.net /~robison/feriaeMarti.html (252 words)

	One of the central state cults of Rome was that of Mars
		The Salii, or Salian priests, are primary cult worshipers of Mars.
		During the procession the Salii would wear a tunica picta, which is an archaic foot soldier cloak, a breastplate covered by the trabea, a military cloak and an apex, which is a helmet or hat.
		One particular chant of the Salii was Mars Vigila, or Mars Awake.
	students.roanoke.edu /groups/relg211/ryan/Mars.html (1113 words)

	Spring Equinox
		This is the “Festival of Flowers,” when the first shoots of blossom appear, and is one of the oldest Greek festivals, dating back to the second millennium BCE; it was also called the Older Dionysia.
		This is a very child-oriented festival, and a child’s first Khoes is one of the major milestones of life: Birth, Khoes, Puberty and Marriage.
		This is a festival for Liber Pater (Father Liber), a god of fertility and especially of the vine, often identified with Dionysos, and for Libera Mater (Mother Libera) who brings fertility to women (as Liber does to men).
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/BA/SF/SprEq.html (2529 words)

	The Atrium \| This Day in Ancient History \| The Ludi Romani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Over time, the festival was expanded up to the fifth of the month and down to the ninteenth, making for over a half-a-month's worth of festivities.
		As mentioned previously, the festival was originally held on September 13 to commemorate the dedication of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (509 or 507 B.C.).
		As might be expected, even though the festival expanded in length in both directions, this was the 'high point' of the whole thing and by the late Republic, there were a number of feasts (epuli) to honour Jupiter and/or assorted divinities closely associated with him (they are somewhat confusing).
	web.idirect.com /%7Eatrium/thisday/features/ludiromani.html (1501 words)

	Salii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		12 aristocratic young men were co-opted as members of the priesthood of the Salii.
		They were dressed in ancient outfits worn by ancient warriors, outlandish even to people in the day of Cicero.
		They played the pivotal role in the Festival of the Salii, during which they sang the Carmen Saliare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salii (154 words)

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		SALII, the " dancers," an old Italian priesthood, said to have been instituted by Numa for the service of Mars, although later tradition derived them from Greece.
		On the 1st, they marched in procession through the city, dressed in an embroidered tunic, a brazen breast-plate and a peaked cap; each carried a sword by his side and a short staff in his right hand, with which the shield, borne on the left arm, was struck from time to time.
		Every day the procession stopped at certain stations (mansiones), where the shields were deposited for the night, and the Said partook of a banquet (see Horace, Odes, i.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=58437 (461 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Numa Pompilius by Plutarch
		It was the fortune of Fabius to kill his adversary, and to take his spoils; but when the Gauls discovered it, they sent a herald to Rome to complain against him; since, before war was declared, he had, against the law of nations, made a breach of the peace.
		The reward which Mamurius received for his art was to be mentioned and commemorated in the verses which the Salii sang, as they danced in their arms through the city; though some will have it that they do not say Veturium Mamuium, but Veterem Memoriam, ancient remembrance.
		Festival days and sports, and the secure and peaceful interchange of friendly visits and hospitalities prevailed all through the whole of Italy.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/numa_pom.html (4249 words)

	ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
		The festival of the shields may be a preparation for war, but the clanging of spear and shield represented thunder-magic.
		Salii and Salii Collini (leaping priests) to Mars and Quirinus.
		Parentalia in February was a festival of the dead, All Souls, and was mainly celebrated in families rather than publicly.
	www.hoocher.com /Religion/ancientgreeceandrome.htm (7201 words)

	HISTORY: The Roman Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		They went in procession through the city (stopping) at certain places to perform an elaborate dance and sing their ancient hymn, which was so old that the words were mostly unintelligible even to the performers, in the period of the late Republic.
		Another festival included a horse race, at the end of which, one of the horses (called the "October Horse") was decapitated and its head covered with cakes as a sacrifice to the Grain God (Grimal 179).
		The Festival of Vestia was celebrated on June ninth, and the Virgins prepared special grain and salt cakes, called mola salsa, as offerings to the Goddess.
	www.sibyllinewicca.org /history/hist_rome2.htm (784 words)

	Quirinus - LoveToKnow 1911
		Subsequently, at the end of the republic, Quirinus became identified with the deified Romulus, son of Mars.
		One of the greater flamens was attached to the service of Quirinus, a second college of Salii founded in his honour, and a festival "Quirinalia" celebrated on the 17th of February, the day of the supposed translation of Romulus to heaven.
		Old Roman formula of prayer mention a Hora Quirini, his female cult associate, afterwards identified with Hersilia, the wife of Romulus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Quirinus (285 words)

	Festival Dates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Festival held in honor of Demeter who search for her daughter Persephone by candle light.
		Hindu Festival celebrates arrival of spring and downfall of legendary demon Holika who was burned lived for devouring children.
		This Festival culminates in a tug o’ war across a lake between the ducks, those born in summer and ptarmigans, those born in winter.
	www.hobsgreen.com /calendar/festival_dates.html (1401 words)

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