• Sacerdos Cereris, sacerdos Cerealis or sacerdos Cereris publica was the title of the Priestess of the goddess Ceres in Ancient Rome. It was one of two...
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    The expected afterlife for the exclusively female initiates in the sacra Cereris may have been somewhat different; they were offered "a method of living"...
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    Sacerdos Cereris, and the Temple of Bona Dea by the Priestess of Bona Dea, Sacerdos Bonae Deae. Other Priestesses were the Sacerdos Liberi, Sacerdos Fortunae...
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    include sacerdos, often in relation to a deity or temple, such as a sacerdos Cereris or Cerealis, "priestess of Ceres", an office never held by men; magistra...
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    Empire. High Priestess of Athena Polias Priestess of Hera at Argos Sacerdos Cereris Connelly, Joan Breton, Portrait of a priestess: women and ritual in...
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    Dionysian Mysteries Kykeon Mycenaean Greece Orphism Poppy goddess Sacerdos Cereris Encyclopædia Britannica Martin P. Nilsson, Vol I, p. 470 Dietrich (1975)...
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    Empire. High Priestess of Demeter High Priestess of Athena Polias Sacerdos Cereris Garland, Robert, Religion and the Greeks, Bristol Classical Press,...
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  • consecrare, "consecrated". The sacerdos is "one who performs a sacred action" or "renders a thing sacred", that is, a priest. A sacerdos (plural sacerdotes, a...
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    Nov. Antoni[nus Aug. tota sua] famili[a adsistente celebravit] ieiunium Cereris x[... K. Nov. Fausti]na Aug[usta excessit eodem. die a] senatu diva app[ellata...
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