• In ancient Roman religion, the Fordicidia was a festival of fertility, held on the Ides of April (April 15), that pertained to farming and animal husbandry...
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    two ingredients from other religious festivals: the Fordicidia and the October Horse. The Fordicidia sacrifices a pregnant cow to the deity Tellus to promote...
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    of the earth. Tellus received the sacrifice of a pregnant cow at the Fordicidia, a festival pertaining to fertility and animal husbandry: 45  held April 15...
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    April brought a series of festivals pertaining to farm life: April 15: Fordicidia, a festival of agricultural fertility and animal husbandry; 21: Parilia...
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  • the second of two festivals involving the curiae, the other being the Fordicidia on April 19. The goddess was probably conceived of to explain the festival...
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  • Roman observances include Veneralia (April 1), Megalesia (April 10–16), Fordicidia (April 15), Parilia (April 21), Vinalia Urbana (April 23), Robigalia (April...
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  • Cerealia, or festival of Ceres, lasting for several days in mid-month; the Fordicidia on April 15, when a pregnant cow was sacrificed; the Parilia on April...
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    by 202 BC 13 (Ides): anniversary of the Temple of Jupiter Victor 15: Fordicidia, offering of a pregnant cow to Tellus ("Earth") 21: Parilia, rustic festival...
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    a shared link to various public, and possibly some private cults. The Fordicidia was a characteristically rustic, agricultural festival, in which a pregnant...
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    offered pregnant female animals; Tellus was given a pregnant cow at the Fordicidia festival. Color had a general symbolic value for sacrifices. Demigods...
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    offered pregnant female animals; Tellus was given a pregnant cow at the Fordicidia festival. Color had a general symbolic value for sacrifices. Demigods...
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    suffimen was the ash produced from the holocaust of an unborn calf at the Fordicidia on April 15, along with the stalks from which beans had been harvested...
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  • agricultural festivals from the era of their creation, including the Cerialia, Fordicidia, Robigalia, and Vinalia. The Menologium Rusticum Colotianum (CIL VI 2305...
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    Dysimia Muir, 1924 c g b Equirria Distant, 1917 c g Fescennia Stål, 1886 c Fordicidia Distant, 1917 c g Goneokara Muir, 1913 c g Herpis Stål, 1860 c g Lamenia...
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    Quirinalia, and also the agricultural festivals of the curiae such as the Fordicidia, when pregnant cows were sacrificed, and the Fornacalia, or Oven Festival...
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    Broomfield, 1985 c g Equirria Distant, 1917 c g Fescennia Stål, 1886 c Fordicidia Distant, 1917 c g Goneokara Muir, 1913 c g Herpis Stål, 1860 c g Ipsemysidia...
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