Religion:Helernus
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Short description: Archaic Roman deity
Helernus, also known as Alernus, was an Archaic Roman deity.[1] He was a minor god of the underworld, and god of the beans used during the Lemuria festival during May.[2] His sacred grove (lucus) was near the mouth of the Tiber river.[3] Sacrifices were made to him annually on the 1st of February by the Roman Pontiffs, in which a black ox was killed.[lower-alpha 1][1][5] He had one daughter, named Carna, who was goddess of protecting the intestines of children from vampires.[2]
Poultney and others compare Helernus with the similarly (apparently) chthonic deity Hule/Horse/Huřie who shows up a couple times in the Umbrian Iguvine Tablets. [6]
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Notes
Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society 1977, p. 131.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Turcan & Nevill 2001, pp. 63-64.
- ↑ Elsner & Rutherford 2007, p. 24.
- ↑ Scullard 1981, p. 72.
- ↑ Frazer 2012, p. 190.
- ↑ Poultney, J.W. "Bronze Tables of Iguvium" 1959 p. 214 https://archive.org/details/bronzetablesofig00poul/page/n19/mode/2up
Books
- Elsner, Jas'; Rutherford, Ian (2007). Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191566752. https://archive.org/details/pilgrimageingrae0000unse.
- Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society (1977). Talanta: Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society (8-15 ed.). Wolters-Noordhoff. OCLC 1004669.
- Scullard, H.H. (1981). Festivals and ceremonies of the Roman Republic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801414022. https://books.google.com/books?id=bDETAQAAIAAJ.
- Frazer, James George (2012). The Golden Bough. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108047319. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3623.
- Turcan, Robert; Nevill, Antonia (2001). The Gods of ancient Rome: religion in everyday life from archaic to imperial times. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781136058509. https://archive.org/details/godsofancientrom0000turc.
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