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LIBER and LIBERA, in See also:Roman See also:mythology, deities, male and See also:female, identified with the See also:Greek See also:Dionysus and Persephone. In See also:honour of Liber (also called Liber See also:Pater and Bacchus) two festivals were celebrated. In the See also:country feast of the vintage, held at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the gathering of the grapes, and the See also:city festival of See also:March 17th called Liberalia (See also:Ovid, See also:Fasti, iii. 711) we find purely See also:Italian ceremonial unaffected by Greek See also:religion. The country festival was a See also:great merry-making, where the first-fruits of th,e'new must were offered to the gods. It was characterized by the grossest symbolism, in honour of the fertility of nature. In the city festival, growing See also:civilization had impressed a new See also:character on the See also:primitive religion, and. connected it with the framework of society. At this time the youths laid aside the boy's toga praetexta and assumed the See also:man's toga libera or virilis (Fasti, 771). Cakes of See also:meal, See also:honey and oil were offered to the two deities at this festival. Liber was originally an old Italian See also:god of the productivity of nature, especially of the See also:vine. His name indicated the See also:free, unrestrained character of his See also:worship: When, at an See also:early See also:period, the Hellenic religion of See also:Demeter spread to See also:Rome, Liber and Libera were identified with Dionysus and Persephone, and associated with another Italian goddess See also:Ceres, who was identified with Demeter. By See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Sibylline books, a See also:temple was built to these three deities near the See also:Circus See also:Flaminius; the whole cultus was borrowed from the Greeks, down even, to the terminology, and priestesses were brought from the Greek cities.
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