Infobox Holiday holiday name Vinalia type Pagan longtype Pagan, Historical image caption observedby Ancient Romans date 23 April br 19 August celebrations Urbana and Rustica observances Libations of wine relatedto Jupiter and Venus The Vinalia were Roman festivals of the wine harvest, wine vintage and gardens, held in honour of Jupiter god Jupiter and Venus mythology Venus . The Vinalia prima first Vinalia , also known as the Vinalia urbana Urban Vinalia was held on April 23, to bless and sample last year s wine and ask for good weather until the next harvest. The Vinalia rustica Rustic Vinalia was on August 19, before the harvest and grape pressing. Vinalia urbana The Vinalia Urbana was held on 23 April. It was predominantly a wine festival, shared by Venus as patron of Glossary of ancient Roman religion profanum profane wine vinum spurcum intended for everyday human use, and Jupiter mythology Jupiter as patron of the strongest, purest, sacrificial grade wine temetum . In honour of Venus, whose powers had provided humankind with ordinary wine, men and women alike sampled the vinum spurcum of the previous autumn s pressing. As god of the weather on which the wine harvest depended, Jupiter was offered a special libation of the previous year s sacred wine vintage, blessed by his high priest and poured into a ditch outside Venus Capitoline temple, probably under the gaze of Rome s higher echelons. ref Olivier de Cazanove, Jupiter, Liber et le vin latin , Revue de l histoire des religions, 1988, Vol. 205, Issue 205 3, pp. 245 265 http www.persee.fr web revues home prescript article ... 124, citing Ovid, Fasti, 4,863 872. ref Vinalia Rustica The Vinalia Rustica was held on August 19 ... growth and fertility. At the Roman Vinalia Rustica , kitchen gardens and market gardens, and presumably ... opinions differ on which deity presided at the Vinalia Rustica Varro insists that like the Vinalia ... Category May observances ca Vin lia de Vinalia fr Vinalia it Vinalia lt Vinalijos nl Vinalia uk ... more details
, Fordicidia , in honour of Terra mythology Tellus April 21, Parilia , in honour of Pales April 23, VinaliaVinalia Urbana Vinalia urbana , in honour of Venus and the previous year s wine harvest April ... in honour of Flora mythology Flora Maius May 1, Festival of the Bona Dea and Vinalia , the 2nd ... of Diana mythology Diana August 17, Portunalia in honour of Portunes August 19, Vinalia Rustica in honour ... more details
In Religion in ancient Rome ancient Roman religion , the Fordicidia was a Roman festivals festival of fertility, held April 15, that pertained to animal husbandry . It involved the animal sacrifice sacrifice of a pregnant cow to Terra mythology Tellus , or Mother Earth, in proximity to the festival of Ceres mythology Ceres Cerealia on April 19. ref Mary Beard classicist Mary Beard , J.A. North, and S.R.F. Price, Religions of Rome A History Cambridge University Press, 1998 , vol. 1, http books.google.com books?id 2rtaTFYuM3QC&pg PA45&dq Fordicidia&lr &as drrb is q&as minm is 0&as miny is &as maxm is 0&as maxy is &num 100&as brr 3&cd 37 v onepage&q Fordicidia&f false p. 45. ref On the Fasti Roman religious calendar , the month of April was in general preoccupied with deities who were female or ambiguous in gender, opening with the Veneralia Feast of Venus on the Kalends . ref William Warde Fowler , The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic London, 1908 , pp. 66 67. ref Several other festivals pertaining to farm life were held in April the Parilia , or feast of shepherds, on April 21 the Robigalia on April 25, to protect crops from blight ref Beard et al. , Religions of Rome p. 45. ref and the Vinalia , or one of the two wine festivals on the calendar, ref The other was held August 19. ref at the end of the month. Of these, the Fordicidia and Robigalia are likely to have been of greatest antiquity. William Warde Fowler , whose early 20th century work on Roman festivals remains a standard reference, asserted that the Fordicidia was beyond doubt one of the oldest sacrificial rites in Roman religion. ref Fowler, Roman Festivals , p. 71. ref Sacrifice and ritual The Roman Republic Late Republic late Republican scholar Varro explains the name of the festival as follows quote The Fordicidia was named from fordae cows a forda cow is one that is carrying an unborn calf because on this day several pregnant cows are officially and publicly sacrificed in the curia e , the ... more details
personal ethics or mentality to be functions of the heart. ref VinaliaVinalia urbana Vinalia urbana .... ref Vinalia Rustica August 19 , originally a rustic Latium Latin festival of wine, vegetable growth ... in various forms throughout Italian Magna Graeca . The dedication date connects this form of Venus to the Vinalia ... 292 BC Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges , and played a central role in the Vinalia Rustica . It was supposedly ... more details
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