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	ACCA LARENTIA - LoveToKnow Article on ACCA LARENTIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The god advised her to marry the first man she met in the street, who proved to be a wealthy Etruscan named Tarutius.
		She inherited all his property and bequeathed it to the Roman people, who out of gratitude instituted in her honor a yearly festival called Larentalia (Dec. 23).
		According to some, Acca Larentia was the mother of the Lares, and, like Ceres, Tellus, Flora and others, symbolized the fertility of the earthin particular the city lands and their crops.
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		30) is preceded by the Festival for Tellus and the Consualia and is followed by the Opalia, Angeronalia (Dec. 21), Larentalia and Festival for Sol Invictus, resulting in a holiday season lasting from Dec. 13 to Dec. 25 (the ancient Winter Solstice).
		The festival begins with a formal sacrifice at the temple of Saturn (whose name was derived from satus = sowing), which is conducted Graeco ritu (by Greek rite), that is, with uncovered head.
		Acca is an obscure Latin word: in Greek akko means a "ridiculous woman" or "bogey"; in Sanskrit akka means "mother." Therefore Acca Larentia seems to be the Mater Larum (Mother of the Lares), who is also called Lara, Larunda, Larentina and Mania.
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	Classics Log 9308d - Message Number 27 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to Anthon, the cock was sacred to Mars, on account of its fighting spirit; it was also sacred to Aesculapius, to Night, and to the domestic Lares on account of its vigilance.
		According to Varro, in -De Lingua Latina-, a cock was sacrificed to the spirit of Acca Larentia at the Larentalia.
		The cock may have been intended as an offering to the spirits of her ancestors, seeing that she was in the process of becoming one herself.
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	Acca Larentia
		She married the wealthy Tarutius and after his death she donated his money to the Roman people.
		In return, Rome celebrated the festival of the Larentalia (possible a feast of the dead in honor of the goddess Larentia) on December 23.
		In another version, Acca Larentia is the wife of the shepherd Faustulus who raised the twins Romulus and Remus.
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	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Acca Larentia@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Her festival, the Larentalia, was on 23 December.
		According to one legend, as wife of Faustulus she was nurse of Romulus and Remus.
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		After the end of the Roman occupation, she continued in French folklore as Lady Habonde (Abundia).
		Roman goddess whose gift of land to the early Romans in the days of Romulus and Remus (according to one account) was celebrated in the festival of Larentalia (or Larentinalia) on December 23.
		She is variously given as the wife of Faustulus or of Carutius, and as the mother of the LAres, the Fratres Arvales, Hercules, or as the nurse and adopted mother of Romulus.
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	Acca Larentia - Acadine Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She reared them, and when one of her twelve sons died Romulus took his place, the twelve being known as the Arval Brethren.
		The festival of the Larentalia was held in her honour on December 23rd.
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	www.acadine.org /index.php/Acca_Larentia (77 words)

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		Larentia, nurse of so great a nation … Your honour will find its place when I come to tell of the Larentalia; that festival falls in December, the month dear to the mirthful spirits (genii).
		I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South.
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