"(...) Feriae ('holidays' in the sense of 'holy days'; singular also feriae or dies ferialis) were either public (publicae) or private (privatae)."
This topic explores the religious rituals, practices, and festivals associated with the Roman mythology, such as the Saturnalia, the Lupercalia, or the Bacchanalia.
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Sacrifice: Offering objects, animals or humans to deities, gods or goddesses to seek their blessings or ask for help with personal or communal issues.
Augury: Divination practices to learn about the future through interpreting bird's flight patterns or the behavior of animals like cats or dogs.
Divination: Practiced by a priest or a specialist to uncover hidden knowledge or reveal answers to specific questions.
Festivals: Commemorating significant events in the history of gods, honoring agricultural cycles and celebrating important seasonal changes.
Meditation: To focus the mind and achieve a state of higher consciousness to enhance spiritual practices, and to connect oneself to the divine.
Prayer: Reciting specific words or chanting specific hymns to the deities, offering gifts of food, flowers or incense.
Purification: Involves bathing, carrying out rituals, and abstaining from certain foods or substances to cleanse the body, mind and soul.
Rites of passage: Marking significant moments in a person's life such as birth, puberty, marriage, and death to help transition to one life stage to the next.
Veneration of ancestors: Praying to perceived ancestral beings and remembering their tales, which are believed to guide and help their descendants.
Worshiping the gods and goddesses: Performing acts of devotion, expressing gratitude and devotion by offering gifts, and asking for blessings or help from specific deities.
Valorization of the divine: Celebrating the supernatural characteristics of deities, such as strength, wisdom or beauty, and telling stories of their powers to embody them.
Immortality and the afterlife: Believing in an afterlife, honoring the souls of the deceased, and performing funerary rites to guide the spirits to the next life.
"State holidays were celebrated by the Roman people and received public funding. Games (ludi), such as the Ludi Apollinares, were not technically feriae, but the days on which they were celebrated were dies festi, holidays in the modern sense of days off work."
"Feriae privatae were holidays celebrated in honor of private individuals or by families. Although feriae were paid for by the state, ludi were often funded by wealthy individuals."
"Feriae publicae were of three kinds: Stativae, Conceptivae, and Imperativae."
"Stativae were annual holidays that held a fixed or stable date on the calendar."
"Conceptivae were annual holidays that were moveable feasts; the date was announced by the magistrates or priests who were responsible for them."
"Imperativae were holidays held 'on demand' when special celebrations or expiations were called for."
"One of the most important sources for Roman holidays is Ovid's Fasti, an incomplete poem that describes and provides origins for festivals from January to June at the time of Augustus."
"State holidays were celebrated by the Roman people and received public funding."
"Games (ludi), such as the Ludi Apollinares, were not technically feriae, but the days on which they were celebrated were dies festi, holidays in the modern sense of days off work."
"Although feriae were paid for by the state, ludi were often funded by wealthy individuals."
"Festivals in ancient Rome were a very important part in Roman religious life during both the Republican and Imperial eras, and one of the primary features of the Roman calendar."
"Ovid's Fasti, an incomplete poem that describes and provides origins for festivals from January to June at the time of Augustus."
"State holidays were celebrated by the Roman people and received public funding."
"Feriae publicae were holidays celebrated by the state priests of Rome at temples, as well as celebrations by neighborhoods, families, and friends held simultaneously throughout Rome."
"The date of conceptivae holidays was announced by the magistrates or priests who were responsible for them."
"Imperativae were holidays held 'on demand.'"
"The days on which games like Ludi Apollinares were celebrated were dies festi, holidays in the modern sense of days off work."
"Feriae privatae were holidays celebrated in honor of private individuals or by families."
"This article deals only with public holidays, including rites celebrated by the state priests of Rome at temples, as well as celebrations by neighborhoods, families, and friends held simultaneously throughout Rome."