After having celebrated the Februalia as final rite of purification during the last day of February, on March the 1st the Sacred Year begins.
March is thus a very important month characterized by many celebrations.
March is enterely dedicated to Life and Nature re-birth in all their expressions. This month is dedicated to the generating forces converging into two polatiries: Mars (Male Polarity) and Cybele (Female Polarity)
Mars - usually wrongly labelled as the God of War - is the "He-generating". He is symbolically Romolus' and Remus' father being in this way Father of the Roman People. Mars is the Fecundating Male Energy: Earth, Plants, Flowers, Fields, etc. He is defined as Marmor (shining, gleaming) but more frequently as Marmar (Reproductive Force of the Nature) or Gradivus (Fecundating Vegetation).
Sacred plants to Mars are: figtree and oak. Sacred animals are: wolf, horse and woodpecker.
If Janus is the sacralization of the "beginnings", Mars is the sacralization of the "activity" and "things' blossoming". To Mars are dedicated the "Sacrae Prima-verae" of youth who entered the adult life as foundators and fecundators.
His sacred symbol is a Spear.
Cybele is the female polarity of fecundity (She-Fecundating). Cybele is by definition the Great Mather embracing all the Goddesses having specific characteristics. In the same time she is associated to the main Goddesses: Iuno, Vesta, Tellus, Bona Dea, Maia, Gaia, Flora, Ceres, Pomona, etc.
Cybele is the perennial energy of the Nature renewal. She is the Lady of the Plants : pine, boxtree and oak are sacred plants to Cybele. She is also the Lady of the Animals . Humans have learnt from her how to cultivate corn and cereals.
Cybele's sacred symbols are: the Tower and the Lion.
March is thus a very important month characterized by many celebrations.
March is enterely dedicated to Life and Nature re-birth in all their expressions. This month is dedicated to the generating forces converging into two polatiries: Mars (Male Polarity) and Cybele (Female Polarity)
Mars - usually wrongly labelled as the God of War - is the "He-generating". He is symbolically Romolus' and Remus' father being in this way Father of the Roman People. Mars is the Fecundating Male Energy: Earth, Plants, Flowers, Fields, etc. He is defined as Marmor (shining, gleaming) but more frequently as Marmar (Reproductive Force of the Nature) or Gradivus (Fecundating Vegetation).
Sacred plants to Mars are: figtree and oak. Sacred animals are: wolf, horse and woodpecker.
If Janus is the sacralization of the "beginnings", Mars is the sacralization of the "activity" and "things' blossoming". To Mars are dedicated the "Sacrae Prima-verae" of youth who entered the adult life as foundators and fecundators.
His sacred symbol is a Spear.
Cybele is the female polarity of fecundity (She-Fecundating). Cybele is by definition the Great Mather embracing all the Goddesses having specific characteristics. In the same time she is associated to the main Goddesses: Iuno, Vesta, Tellus, Bona Dea, Maia, Gaia, Flora, Ceres, Pomona, etc.
Cybele is the perennial energy of the Nature renewal. She is the Lady of the Plants : pine, boxtree and oak are sacred plants to Cybele. She is also the Lady of the Animals . Humans have learnt from her how to cultivate corn and cereals.
Cybele's sacred symbols are: the Tower and the Lion.
- 1 - 6 march: Matronalia, Fire of Vesta
- 40-10 march: Ludi Megalesi
- march 7: Mars 'Agonalia, Iunonalia
- march 9: Mars' Weapons
- 14 march: Equiria, Mamuralia
- 15-27 march: Megalesia, Anna Perenna
- 17 march : Liberal
- march 19: Mars' Weapons, Great Quinquatria (by 21st march) march 23
- : Tubilustrium
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