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	Vestal Virgin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vestal virgins were committed to the priesthood at a young age (before puberty) and were sworn to celibacy.
		The Vestal Tuccia was accused of fornication, but she carried water in a sieve to prove her chastity.
		The Atrium of the House of the Vestals
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vestal_Virgin (1613 words)

	VESTA - LoveToKnow Article on VESTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The election (captio) of the vestal during the early period of Rome was iii the hands of the king, and in those of the pontifex maximus under the republic and empire,i subject, however, to the following conditions (Aul.
		Many of the statuas to the chief vestals which were found in the Atrium Vestae in I 8831884 have pedestals inscribed with a dedication recording that benefits had been conferred on the donor by the vestalis maxima.
		The Regia, the official fanum of the pontifex maximus, was adjacent to the vestals house: Hic locus est Vestae, qui Pallada servat et ignem; Hic fuit antiqui Regia parva Numae.
	17.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VE/VESTA.htm (2712 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vestal Virgin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The lictor, derived from the Latin ligare (to bind), was a member of a special class of Roman civil servant, with special tasks of attending magistrates of the Roman Republic and Empire who held imperium.
		The College of Vestal Virgins ended in 391, when the fire was extinguished and the Vestal Virgins disbanded by order of Theodosius I. Valerius Maximus was a Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes.
		The complex lay at the foot of the Palatine Hill, where a sacred grove that was slowly encroached upon lingered into Imperial times, when all was swept away by the Fire of Rome in 64 CE.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vestal-Virgin (3308 words)

	Vestalia
		Vestals served for 30 year terms, during which they had to retain their virginity.
		Vestal Virgins enjoyed great respect from Romans of every station (think of the way most folks think of nuns, for example), and in fact, wielded some political influence behind the scenes.
		On becoming a priestess, a Vestal Virgin was legally emancipated from her father's authority.
	www.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/vestalia.htm (1711 words)

	Vestals
		House of the Vestal Virgins, the temple of the undying flame.
		The guilty Vestal is tied to a litter, covered and gagged, so that no one will hear her as she is taken through the Forum, from the Temple of Vesta to the chamber prepared for her.
		The Vestals were often entrusted with the wills of the nobility, as their purity would insure the will’s inviolability.
	www.ancientroute.com /religion/Relig-Subj/vestals.htm (2348 words)

	Taboo, Magic, Sprits: A Study of Primitive Elements in Roman Religion: Chapter III: Miscellaneous Taboos
		During the period of the First Samnite War, Minucia, a Vestal, brought suspicion upon herself because of her fondness for prety dresses; on the evidence of a slave she was charged with unchastity and was buried alive near the Colline Gate at a place afterwards called the Accursed Plain--presumably from this event.
		Juvenal, with a contemptuous sneer, accused Crispinus of a liaison with a Vestal;
		The burying of Vestals when they had broken their vows of chastity, then, may conceivably have been a sacrifice to the Earth whose products they were likely to harm by their immorality.
	www.orientalia.org /wisdom/classic_greece_rome/tms/tms05.shtml (7181 words)

	The Vestal Virgins of Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chosen by lot from a group of specially selected, physically impeccable girls with two living parents, a Vestal entered the Order between her sixth and tenth year and was sworn to thirty years of chastity and demending service.
		A chief Vestal duty was tending the sacred fire in the round, peaked-roofed Temple of Vesta.
		Vesta was once the goddess of the hearth and later became the goddess of the flame that symbolized the Roman state.
	www.angelfire.com /va2/vestalvirgins (358 words)

	Vestal Virgins -- perfect images of Roman beauty
		Clearly, new Vestals were not often inaugurated in the normal run of things: even in the later period when there were six vestals, there should be only two openings in any ten-year period, unless a priestess died or was caught fooling around.
		The Vestals originally had a modest bungalow in eastern end of the Forum next to their goddess's round temple, which had been built so to represent the earliest round hearths/huts in the area.
		"Vestal Virgins" from the University of Kentucky -- Quotations from Plutarch and Aulus Gellius: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/wlgr/wlgr-religion408.html
	www.mmdtkw.org /VVestal.html (1303 words)

	The Temple of Rudra 1998
		Inherent to its architecture is a group of dancers representing the Vestals, who couple with the inanimate deities in poses inspired by the erotic sculptures at the Indian temple of Khajuraho.
		Vestals and Chalice Bearers: The ceremonial drumming queues the entrance of the Vestals followed by the Chalice Bearers.
		Hierophants and Vestals join the People of Rudra who break their rings to begin chanting, dancing and spinning to the thundering African drumming until the degree of Incantation is achieved, and the Temple collapses.
	www.burningmanopera.org /opera98/script98.html (1603 words)

	House of the Vestal Virgins, Forum Romanum (Photo Archive)
		The House of the Vestal Virgins, (Atrium Vestae), was the residence of the Vestal Virgins, the high priestesses of the cult of Vesta.
		The cult of Vesta is very ancient, and the Vestal Virgins had their residence in the same location from the 6th century BCE to the end of the 4th century CE.
		After the vestals left the place in 394 CE, the complex was used for imperial offices, which explains the removal of the statues after the suppression of all non-Christian cults.
	sights.seindal.dk /sight/173_House_of_the_Vestal_Virgins.html (1149 words)

	Event Horizon Volume 3 6 Roman Around (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On that day her sanctuary (which normally no one except her priestesses, the Vestal Virgins, entered) was accessible to mothers of families who brought plates of food.
		Also, if a Vestal let the sacred fire go out she was whipped by order of Pontifex Maximus.
		When the Vestals had finished the thirty years of their engagement they could marry.
	www.amateurastronomy.org /Events/EH367.html (630 words)

	The Duties of the Vestal Virgins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If a Vestal was found to have lost her virginity, she was buried alive.
		It was unthinkable to shed the blood of a Vestal; therefore, the only way to execute her was to bury her alive.
		The Vestal was lowered onto the bed in the chamber, the ladder was removed, and the opening was filled in (The Vestal Virgins, realm-of-fire.com).
	www.geocities.com /fredricka616/duties.html (324 words)

	The California Aggie
		The highlights of The Vestals' album come when they embrace their more melodic side.
		Led by brothers Jeremy and Ben Gordon, The Vestals is the first release from the band of the same name.
		The Vestals use distorted vocals for a melodramatic effect - with a muted, lazy intro verse reminiscent of Sgt. Pepper's-era Beatles, "Forever It's True" is tinged with a carnival-style musical interlude, accentuating the haunting vocals.
	www.californiaaggie.com /article/?id=4021 (304 words)

	~ Welcome to Daughters of the Goddess ~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Descendants of an ancient order of holy women who guarded the public hearth and altar, the Vestals were entrusted with keeping alight the perpetual fire that was the mystic heart of the empire.
		Vestals were virgins, i.e., women who vowed never to marry because they were brides of the spirit of Rome, in the same sense that Christian nuns were brides of Christ.
		Vestals underwent the same ceremony that was later applied to nuns, to limit their magic female powers; they had their hair shaved off.
	www.daughtersofthegoddess.com /events/2004vesta.html (350 words)

	Castratrix of Ancient Rome
		The Vestal Virgins were the venerated priestesses of the Roman goddess of the hearth fire, Vesta, and thereby the guardians of the luck of Rome, who could intervene on behalf of those in trouble.
		A Vestal who lost her virginity was buried alive in the Campus Sceleratus (near the Colline gate) amid solemn ritual.
		The Vestals' chief function was preservation of an undying fire, or ‘ignis inextinctu’, in the shrine of Vesta but they had many other ceremonial roles as well.
	www.eunuch.org /Alpha/C/ea_110247castratr.htm (3999 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 687 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In its neighbourhood was the so called atrium of Vesta, the abode of the virgin priestesses of the goddess, the Vestals [excavated in 1883-4; Middleton's Remains of Ancient Rome, i 307-329].
		Corresponding to the lares and pendtis of the domestic hearth, there were, according to later usage, the penates of the State in the temple of Vesta ; and similarly, on the temple-hearth, a sacrifice was offered daily, consisting of the plainest form of food in a simple vessel of clay.
		The daily purifications could only be made with flowing water, which the Vestals carried in pitchers upon their heads from the fountain of Egeria, or of the Muses.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0690.html (787 words)

	Roman Persecutions
		Vestals also had the unique right to be buried in the city.
		There is no record of death for the others; one, the vestal Rubria, was raped by Nero, the other forced to marry the mad emperor Heliogabalus, who soon cast her off.
		Domitian ordered the High Vestal Cornelia to be buried alive in 81 CE, refusing to allow her to defend herself.
	www.suppressedhistories.net /secret_history/roman_persecution.html (6797 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		The most conspicuous were the Vestal Virgins at Rome, who as guardians of the sacred fire probably represented the king's daughters who had tended the hearth in the days when the king of Rome was the chief of a primitive clan by the Tiber.
		The Vestals were not admitted to athletic contests until Nero discovered that this privilege was allowed to their approximate Greek counterpart, the priestess of Demeter at Olympia, who sat on the altar during the Olympic games.
		Perhaps as much may be said for the execution of Vestals under Caracalla, though one cannot take very seriously the claim of Elagabalus that he was justified in marrying a Vestal since as a priest he could properly marry a priestess.(5) Besides the Roman Vestals there were similar colleges in other Italian towns.
	www.womenpriests.org /related/hardy.asp (1553 words)

	Vestal Virgins of Ancient Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vestals' marble portraits, the infula consisted of a single, long cloth band that wrapped around the head no more than six times.
		Several portraits of mature Vestals, presumably women who held the office of Virgo Vestalis Maxima, show five turns of the infula, rather than the maximum number of six.
		Other Roman women are depicted in their portraits wearing a headband similar to the Vestals' infula and called by the same name.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~burnham/link4.html (162 words)

	The Code of Hammurabi: Babylonian Law--The Code of Hammurabi (Encyclopedia Britanica, 11th Ed.)
		The vestals were vowed to chastity, lived together in a great nunnery, were forbidden to open or enter a tavern, and together with other votaries had many privileges.
		Vestal virgins were not supposed to have children, yet they could and often did marry.
		The daughter was not only in her father's power to be given in marriage, but he might dedicate her to the service of some god as a vestal or a hierodule; or give her as a concubine.
	www.sacred-texts.com /ane/ham/ham02.htm (7254 words)

	Ireland's OWN Myths & Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vestals were of great standing in Rome; chosen by lot from Patrician families between the ages of six and 10, they would serve for 30 years after which they could marry.
		On their feast day, 7 June, the Vestals' mothers would bring food to the sanctuary, which was otherwise entered only by Vestals.
		On the full moon at the beginning of May, the Vestals would throw 24 manikins (replacing human sacrifice) into the Tiber to ensure water supply.
	www.irelandsown.net /vesta.html (205 words)

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		Causidiena, newly become Chief Vestal, was a woman of about forty-five years of age, mild, gentle, and charming, with cool gray eyes and glossy brown hair, a being who aroused affection, inspired admiration and compelled love from all her household.
		Generally she made a pretty fair attempt at demeaning herself as a Vestal should; but, every once in a while, without warning, something of her old wild self surged up in her and the speech was spoken or the action completed before she realized she was about to speak or act at all.
		He, although a foreigner and a savage, had been long enough in Rome to know perfectly what a Vestal was and he recoiled from her in a panic no less than he would have felt had the goddess Vesta herself come down from the sky to balk him of his prey.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/vesta10.txt (20550 words)

	Vestal Virgins, Roman Religion and Mythology (Photo Archive)
		The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta in charge of maintaining the sacred fire within the Temple of Vesta on the Forum Romanum.
		The vestal virgins were selected from distinguished patrician families at an age from three to ten.
		The vestal virgins lived in the House of the Vestal Virgins on the Forum Romanum, near the Temple of Vesta.
	sights.seindal.dk /sight/318_Vestal_Virgins.html (540 words)

	Forum Romanum
		Vestals were an attempt by men to control women's spirituality.
		Vestals is missing a major part of Roman religion.
		A Vestal is entitled to be preceded by a lictor.
	www.novaroma.org /forum/mainlist/1998/1998-09-06.html (5213 words)

	Vestals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their sacred duty is to tend the eternal fire of Vesta in her temple.
		The Vestal Virgins were chosen at the age of eight from Patrician families by the Pontifex maximus ("high priest").
		During their service to the goddess, they were expected to keep strict vows of chastity.
	home.swipnet.se /heathen/mythology/v/vestals.html (80 words)

	CD Baby: THE VESTALS: The Vestals
		This soon became a catalytic source of competition and they feverishly developed their individual styles, but both were vindicated by separately making the finalist round at the 2000 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
		Some artists can say that they are influenced by the Beatles or Elvis Costello, but with the Vestals you can actually hear their true essence in the foundation of the song structure and the brothers' mesmerizing harmonies.
		Although only their first label release, this album packs a full punch of memorable songs that will leave your player on "replay" and leave your humming the tunes long after they've stopped.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/vestals?cdbaby=2cfa5356e42ace94c0753393658249f6 (592 words)

	Legion XXIV - Colosseum Page
		The portico entrance at the right was used by the Emperor, Senators and Vestals; while the portico to the left was the "Libitinarian" Gate (from Libitina, goddess of funerals) through which the dead gladiators and killed wild beasts were carried.
		The numbers on the entrances served to indicate which was most convenient for reaching the seating area allocated to the spectator according to his relative social rank.
		The ceremonial entrance for the Emperor, Senate and Vestals, was situated at the southern short axis of the facility between arches I (1) on the right and LXXVI (76) to the left.
	www.legionxxiv.org /colosseum (1170 words)

	Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was be of fair countenance and have no physical defect, and be between the ages of 6 and 10.
		She then was ceremoniously escorted to the home of the Vestals behind the Temple, where her hair was cut, and her new sisters dressed her all in white.
		The heavy linens were removed from the vestal, she was now bound by a thin cloth that is wrapped about her.
	www.realm-of-shade.com /RomanaeAntiquae/religion.html (678 words)

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