The Neptunalia

Neptune, God of the Waters, was honored in ancient Rome on this establish (July 23) with the celebration of Neptunalia. This obscure antediluvian celebration was illustrious at Rome in the heat and aridity of summer.

In the middle of ancient Italy's really hot and dry summer zest, in imitation of rivers were low and water was most defective, Romans required Neptune's protection of irrigation waters and works. To do this, they went out to the fields and forests and built tiny huts called "umbrae "(shades) or "tabernaculi "(tabernacles) out of new Laurel (Bay) branches. Inwards the shade of these natural tents they would picnic outdoors, ingestion border on water as well as wine to monitor cool in these hot summer days. Comfortable folk might figure a bull to Neptune. Camping overnight with fires for rations (they accommodating the bull with the god) would be entire, and the celebration continued the next day.

Reverence Neptune on this day would easy task fall for the crops and keep away from any aridity. Neptunalia was alike intended to be an important day to start new irrigation works, which, in any case the heat, were easier to cause to feel in summer than inwards other wetter seasons -- slaves did the hot and hefty work surge.

Engineering Italian Witches repute Neptune on this day by light a short candle, inscribed with the trident symbol and anointed with seawater, and placing it on an altar put away with mixed sea items, such as bombs, driftwood, and so on.

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