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FEBRUARY 21: Hanc quia ferunt fair, shall say Feralia lucem

Among the many rituals of atonement, which the Romans celebrated during the month of February, the day 21 is dedicated to Feralia , public festival that culminated with the ninth of Parental dies or Parentalia ( covering the 13 to 21 February) during which each family privately honored their dead the first eight days, visiting the graves of these to provide salt, grain or flowers to their wandering souls and making offerings ( parentare ) to the spirits of the ancestors (cf. Ovid., Fasti , II, 534 ) and ninth ( Feralia ) a public holiday was celebrated, whose ceremonies included a black magic ritual honoring the driven by an old dead in honor of the goddess -Muta or Lara Tacita (mother of the twin gods known as Lares), who had been punished by Jupiter to live in the kingdom of silence perpetuo, donde moraban los dioses Manes, al haber avisado a la ninfa Yuturna del plan del dios para violarla.

Ecce anus in mediis residens annosa puellis

sacra facit Tacitae (vix tamen ipsa tacet),

et digitis tria tura tribus sub limine ponit,

qua brevis occultum mus sibi fecit iter:

tum cantata ligat cum fusco licia plumbo,

et septem nigras versat in ore fabas,

quodque pice adstrinxit, quod acu traiecit aena,

obsutum maenae torret in igne caput;

vina quoque instillat: vini quodcumque relictum est,

aut ipsa aut comites, plus tamen ipsa, bibit.

'hostiles linguas inimicaque vinximus ora'

dicit discedens ebriaque exit anus.

                                                  Ovid., Fasti, II, 571-582

The ritual is devoted to extension disembodied souls of the dead unable to communicate with the living, as revealed by the context of the silence of the ceremony, visibly related to the immobility of the languages \u200b\u200bthat are silent while the old rituals practiced sitting in a position unusual for make sacrifices, but it encourages better contact with the world of the dead. Related also with their mouths that, after death, have been sealed with black beans, with the body paralysis of the threads tied around a heavy metal such as lead and the black color of the fish, beans or the individual lead.

According Ovid, Fasti , II, 569-570 , February 21 called Feralia , since it carried ( ferunt ) to dead forced offerings and is the last day to appease the gods of the dead.

Hanc, quia iusta ferunt, shall say Feralia lucem;

last placandis manibus dies illa.

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