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- (2006: pp. 106–107) in The Golden Bough from 1890 charts the various propitiary sacrifices and effigy substitution such as the shadow, states that: Nowhere...
- of local or nature deities to whom transhumant shepherds should make propitiary offers. In Georg Wissowa's terminology, the di indigetes or indigites...
- pig, offered before harvesting). Before the harvest, she was offered a propitiary grain sample (praemetium). Ovid tells that Ceres "is content with little...
- vernisera auguria mentioned by Festus, which should have been a springtime propitiary rite held at the time of the harvest (auguria messalia). The auspex, plural...
- is the mother of the Fratres Arvales, performers of the agricultural propitiary rite of the Ambarvalia, and bestows wealth on her heirs and figurative...