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Rome has been founded on 21st april 753 b.c. over the Palatine by Romolus with a rite based on the delimitation of the templum with a lituum,
auspices' reading and interpretation, offering to Gods/Goddesses and
to Earth, delimitation of the sacred space with a lituum, construction
of
the pomerium (sacred border) traced on the ground with a plough's furrow, delimitation of the Via Sacra around the pomerium.
Through this rite Rome became not only a physical space, but also a meta-physical space where great sacred and divine energies and forces are concentrated. Rome is thus not only a "place" but also a "meta-place". Thanks to this consecration, or a translation into the Divine dimension, Rome may be the center of other religions but it will remain the site of the Ancient Gods/Goddesses forever.
Costantinopolis is the only city in the world founded with the same rite.
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This day is dedicated also to the ancient Goddess Pale, Goddess of shepherds, sheep farming and flocks.
This is a purification day during which flat bread and milk are eaten and offered to this Goddess.
At night straw fires are lighted.
In the past cattle was passed three times through these fires as a purification rite.
Through this rite Rome became not only a physical space, but also a meta-physical space where great sacred and divine energies and forces are concentrated. Rome is thus not only a "place" but also a "meta-place". Thanks to this consecration, or a translation into the Divine dimension, Rome may be the center of other religions but it will remain the site of the Ancient Gods/Goddesses forever.
Costantinopolis is the only city in the world founded with the same rite.
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This day is dedicated also to the ancient Goddess Pale, Goddess of shepherds, sheep farming and flocks.
This is a purification day during which flat bread and milk are eaten and offered to this Goddess.
At night straw fires are lighted.
In the past cattle was passed three times through these fires as a purification rite.
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The day of April 21st is dedicated to the foundation of Rome and to the
Ancient Goddess of Pale. In many blogs there are detailed hystorical
descriptions about these importatn festivals.
It seems to me quite useless to add something else to this here also
because in this blog I'm trying to dismiss, whenever possible, the
hystorical rhetoric and to reconstructionism. I don't like also that in Rome these ceremonies have been quite essentially
biased on costume parades. Too much folklore; this is a carnival party.
That's all.
During a day like this a Cultor and a Cultrix should wonder what these festivities mean for them today, what meaning and sense these festivities may have today wondering also about the value we can assign today
to these festivals: which kind of contribution can these festivals
provide to our spirituality within the Traditional Roman Spirituality today?
I don't think that insisting on the purification of flocks can be
useful or understandable for us (except for someone involved in sheep or
livestock breeding).
Anyway. I ask to myself how it can be possible to spiritually live this
day and how this day can contribute to my spirituality for the days to
come.
I think that the Traditional Roman Spirituality today, among others, is a
kind of deep spirituality linked to the cult (practice) of the Ancestors. Role and meaning of Ancestors (also as metaphysical concept) strongly inspire this kind of Credo.
The foundation of Rome (its myth and the festivity dedicated to an
ancient Goddess) therefore recalls an idea of Ancestors, an idea of
Beginning, Origin, the birth of a Spiritual Tradition. This day evokes a
type of primordial humankind where Life is sacred, men and women are
strictly close to Gods and Goddesses (in a very broad sense).
We thus remind a Time when every action, gesture, thought were sacred.
This is a Time when the urban space where men and women live is
co-shared with Gods and Goddesses. Every man and woman are priest and
priestess because living is a sacred action, the city-village is a
Temple, every form and expression of the Reality reveals and discloses
the Divine Presence. And men and women can easily perceive the sacred Breath (flamen) of this Divine Presence.
In this primal status there is a pure, immediate, direct, plain elementarity: what is immensely great is like what is immensely small. Microcosm and macrocosm are the same.
I think that in this day (rather than dressing masks) it should be
better to direct our thoughts toward this concept of frugality, simplicity, primal status which
the idea of Ancestors and their cult materialize. We have to regain
this deep sense and meaning connected to these festivals, the real idea
of Ancestors (a concept we have completely lost) which must inspire our
everyday life.
We should daily reflect about these principles.
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