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1995 yakatit 27 1719 amshir 27 1424 muharram 02
1924 phalguna 15 1381 esfand 15 211 ventôse
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Julian 2003 Feb 21— FERALIA
— CLAVDVNTVR PARENTALIA — ANTE DIEM IX CALENDAS MARTIS MMDCCLVI
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Explanation
of various calendars
This is the last day of the
Parentalia and the temples would be opened at noon.The Feralia is a religious
holiday sacred to Jupiter, whose surname was Feretrius. On this day the ongoing
celebrations forming part of the dies parentalis and the tempus religiosum
came to a close.
February is a month sacred to the gods Mars
(as Quirinus, or Romulus) and Juno, the wife of Jupiter. Juno (Hera) was the
mother of Mars, called Ares by the Greeks, and sometimes Enyalius. Ares was
often accompanied in his bloody campaigns by Enyo, the murderess goddess of
war who was known as Bellona by the Romans. Ares paid no attention to which
cause was right or wrong and was concerned only with where he could cause
maximum carnage. The Romans held a milder, more honorable view of Mars, honoring
him as the son of Zeus and the father of Romulus.
In Egypt, this was the Day of Nut. She was the
goddess of the sky and the heavens. The Egyptians believed that the world
had been created by a divine act of sex between the earth god Geb and the
sky goddess Nut. Of necessity, the goddess Nut was on top, while Geb reclined..