|
See also:ANNA PERENNA , an old See also:Roman deity of the circle or " See also:ring " of the See also:year, as the name (per annum) clearly indicates. Her festival See also:fell on the full See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon of the first See also:month (See also:March 15), and was held at the See also:grove of the goddess at the first milestone on the Via See also:Flaminia. It was much frequented by the See also:city See also:plebs, and See also:Ovid describes vividly the revelry and licentiousness of the occasion (See also:Fasti,iii. 523 See also:foil.). From See also:Macrobius we learn (Sat. i. 12. 6) that See also:sacrifice was made to her " ut annare perannareque commodeliccat," i.e. that the circle of the year may be completed happily. This is all we know for certain about the goddess and her cult; but the name naturally suggested myth-making, and Anna became a figure in stories which may be read in Ovid (l.c.) and in Silius Italicus (8.5o foil.). The coarse myth told by Ovid, in which Anna plays a See also:trick on See also:Mars when in love with See also:Minerva, is probably an old See also:Italian folk-See also:tale, poetically applied to the persons of these deities when they became partially anthropomorphized under See also:Greek See also:influence. (W. W.
End of Article: ANNA PERENNA
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!