Some Greek And Roman Ideas of a Future Life
Some Greek And Roman Ideas of a Future Life
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4 There is a difficulty in the use of the dignified and kindly title manes in this formula instead of the more impish lemures or larvae, which would suit with the natural conception of the Lemuria, but it is probably a case of euphemism.
\ OF A FUTURE LIFE 15 think, necessary to suppose, as Mr Warde Fowler does, that the Lemures represent the spirits of the unburied dead. To the primitive tiller of the soil with animistic beliefs the powers that are in the earth are always potentially hostile a...nd may wreck the produce of the ground, and the farther we can go back in Roman religion, the more do we find the natural attitude towards the spirits one of fear and a consciousness of the necessity of placation. The days of the Parentalia 1 in February, which significantly enough do not appear in the oldest Calendar and were regarded even by Roman scholars as of later origin than the Lemuria, show us a very different picture. On these days, apparently, the whole people went, as did individual families on the anniversaries of deaths, to the family tombs; the rites of burial were symbolically renewed, offerings of water, wine, milk, honey and oil were made, and black victims were sacrificed (parentare), the solemn greeting salve et vale was repeated, and petitions were made though probably not before a comparatively late date for the aid of the dead to their living kinsmen.
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4 There is a difficulty in the use of the dignified and kindly title manes in this formula instead of the more impish lemures or larvae, which would suit with the natural conception of the Lemuria, but it is probably a case of euphemism.
\ OF A FUTURE LIFE 15 think, necessary to suppose, as Mr Warde Fowler does, that the Lemures represent the spirits of the unburied dead. To the primitive tiller of the soil with animistic beliefs the powers that are in the earth are always potentially hostile a...nd may wreck the produce of the ground, and the farther we can go back in Roman religion, the more do we find the natural attitude towards the spirits one of fear and a consciousness of the necessity of placation. The days of the Parentalia 1 in February, which significantly enough do not appear in the oldest Calendar and were regarded even by Roman scholars as of later origin than the Lemuria, show us a very different picture. On these days, apparently, the whole people went, as did individual families on the anniversaries of deaths, to the family tombs; the rites of burial were symbolically renewed, offerings of water, wine, milk, honey and oil were made, and black victims were sacrificed (parentare), the solemn greeting salve et vale was repeated, and petitions were made though probably not before a comparatively late date for the aid of the dead to their living kinsmen.
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