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smokingbootMake love. Have long baths. Buy flowers. Make jokes. Here's to harmony, beauty, friendship and luck. And Love, of course!
APRIL 1st
Roman: CERES. (Brewer, Dict.) "April Fool Perhaps it may be a relic of the Roman 'Cerealia', held at the beginning of April". See also under April 12th.
Roman: CONCORDIA, VENUS and FORTUNA; The Veneralia. (Seyffert, Dict.) "Concordia . . The goddess Concordia was also invoked with Venus and Fortuna, by married women on the 1st of April".
(Ovid, Fasti, IV. 133) "April 1st Duly do ye worship the goddess (i.e. -Venus), ye Latin mothers and brides, and ye, too, who wear not the fillets and long robe (Frazer: 'courtesans'). Take off the golden necklaces from the marble neck of the goddess; take off her gauds; the goddess must be washed from top to toe. Then dry her neck and restore to it her golden necklaces; now give her other flowers, now give her the fresh-blown rose. Ye, too, she herself bids bathe under the green myrtle. . Learn now why ye give incense to Fortuna Virilis in the place which reeks of warm water. All women strip when they enter that place Propitiate her with suplications; beauty and fortune and good fame are in her keeping". (Plutarch, Lives, Numa) on the month of April; "the women bathe on the calends, or first day of it, with myrtle garlands on their heads."
(Montfaucon, Antiq. Suppl. p. 19) on the Calendar of Philocalus annexed to Valentine's illustrations of the months (see under February): "in the Beginning of [April] there is read upon the Calends, Veneralia ludi, Senatus legitimus. Now, it's possible these Veneralia, were feasts in honour of Venus, which they celebrated with publick Sports; which perfectly agrees . . with the Words of Ausonius. Before Venus there stands a Candlestick, with a Wax-taper lighted, in the Flame of which they burnt Grains of Incense. The lines of Ausonius are to this purpose: 'April does Honour to Venus cover'd with Myrtle. With this Month is seen the Light of Incense, with which the beneficent Ceres shines. Nor are those Perfumes wanting which are always issue from the Paphian Goddess'." See also under Ceres.
(Amhlaoibh 0 Suilleabhain (1835), cited by Danaher, The rear in Ireland, p. 84) "April Fools' Day. A barbarous custom from pagan times is still established in Ireland, namely, to make an April Fool of a person. At the time when Venus was worshipped the first day of the month was a festival in her honour, and it was customary to play all sorts of low pranks to do her veneration."
(Perp. Fest. Cal) "April 1st: Aphrodite. Venus. Goddess of Beauty and Harmony". (Fell. of Isis Dir.) "April 1st: Aphrodite. Venus. Laughter, Sport, Friendliness".
APRIL 1st
Roman: CERES. (Brewer, Dict.) "April Fool Perhaps it may be a relic of the Roman 'Cerealia', held at the beginning of April". See also under April 12th.
Roman: CONCORDIA, VENUS and FORTUNA; The Veneralia. (Seyffert, Dict.) "Concordia . . The goddess Concordia was also invoked with Venus and Fortuna, by married women on the 1st of April".
(Ovid, Fasti, IV. 133) "April 1st Duly do ye worship the goddess (i.e. -Venus), ye Latin mothers and brides, and ye, too, who wear not the fillets and long robe (Frazer: 'courtesans'). Take off the golden necklaces from the marble neck of the goddess; take off her gauds; the goddess must be washed from top to toe. Then dry her neck and restore to it her golden necklaces; now give her other flowers, now give her the fresh-blown rose. Ye, too, she herself bids bathe under the green myrtle. . Learn now why ye give incense to Fortuna Virilis in the place which reeks of warm water. All women strip when they enter that place Propitiate her with suplications; beauty and fortune and good fame are in her keeping". (Plutarch, Lives, Numa) on the month of April; "the women bathe on the calends, or first day of it, with myrtle garlands on their heads."
(Montfaucon, Antiq. Suppl. p. 19) on the Calendar of Philocalus annexed to Valentine's illustrations of the months (see under February): "in the Beginning of [April] there is read upon the Calends, Veneralia ludi, Senatus legitimus. Now, it's possible these Veneralia, were feasts in honour of Venus, which they celebrated with publick Sports; which perfectly agrees . . with the Words of Ausonius. Before Venus there stands a Candlestick, with a Wax-taper lighted, in the Flame of which they burnt Grains of Incense. The lines of Ausonius are to this purpose: 'April does Honour to Venus cover'd with Myrtle. With this Month is seen the Light of Incense, with which the beneficent Ceres shines. Nor are those Perfumes wanting which are always issue from the Paphian Goddess'." See also under Ceres.
(Amhlaoibh 0 Suilleabhain (1835), cited by Danaher, The rear in Ireland, p. 84) "April Fools' Day. A barbarous custom from pagan times is still established in Ireland, namely, to make an April Fool of a person. At the time when Venus was worshipped the first day of the month was a festival in her honour, and it was customary to play all sorts of low pranks to do her veneration."
(Perp. Fest. Cal) "April 1st: Aphrodite. Venus. Goddess of Beauty and Harmony". (Fell. of Isis Dir.) "April 1st: Aphrodite. Venus. Laughter, Sport, Friendliness".
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