• black beans. In the Julian calendar the three days of the festival were 9, 11, and 13 May. Lemuria's name and origin myth, according to Ovid, derives from...
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  • Lemuria (/lɪˈmjʊəriə/), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later...
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  • up Lemuria in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lemuria is a hypothetical land mass in the Indian Ocean. Lemuria may also refer to: Lemuria (festival),...
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    has similarities to the exorcism of hostile, vagrant spirits at the Lemuria festival, but is completed when a fish-head is sewn up to "bind hostile tongues...
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  • Roman chthonic goddess identified with Mania by Varro Roman festivals Lemuria (festival) Roger D. Woodard, Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman...
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    Vestalia (category Ancient Roman festivals)
    Vesta cluditur. Roman festivals Carmentalia Floralia Cerealia Fornacalia Opiconsivia Divalia Furrinalia Matralia Lemuria (festival) Matronalia Liberalia...
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  • Feralia (category Ancient Roman festivals)
    rites that lend themselves to another festival of the dead in the month of May, called Lemuria. During Lemuria the dead ancestor spirits, particularly...
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    Beans were used as a food for the dead, such as during the annual Lemuria festival.[citation needed] The ancient Roman family name Fabius and the modern...
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    Kumari Kandam (category Lemuria)
    American scholars speculated the existence of a submerged continent called Lemuria to explain geological and other similarities between Africa, Australia...
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  • minor god of the underworld, and god of the beans used during the Lemuria festival during May. His sacred grove (lucus) was near the mouth of the Tiber...
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  • Lemuria is a symphonic black metal band from Antwerp, Belgium, formed in 1999. Lemuria is the name of a legendary lost continent. The band was conceived...
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    Music Industry, and Andrew Jackson Jihad. Lemuria also became a regular at the Gainesville, Florida based festival, The Fest, playing for the first time in...
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  • celebration for Flora, or the anniversary of one of her temples 9, 11, 13: Lemuria, a festival of the dead with both public and household rites, possibly with a...
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    inauspicious for weddings. Ovid claims that women who wed during the Lemuria festival were expected to not live much longer and that the general public of...
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    which refers to specters or ghosts that were exorcised during the Lemuria festival of ancient Rome. Linnaeus was familiar with the works of Virgil and...
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    of the fragmentary text, but coincided with the period of the Lemuria, archaic festival days on May 9, 11, and 13 for propitiating shades (lemures or...
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    which refers to specters or ghosts that were exorcised during the Lemuria festival of ancient Rome. According to Carl Linnaeus's own explanation, the...
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    "Black Sun". The band toured Lemuria / Sirius B over two years and 106 shows, with its final performance at the ProgPower Festival in Cheltenham, UK on 21...
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    Maximati) and May 13–17 (Ludi Persici). Festivals marked in large letters on extant fasti, represented by festival names in all capital letters on the table...
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    ancestral dead (whom Ovid identifies as Lares). The midnight rites of the Lemuria festival (9, 11, and 13 May), were yet more ancient and obscure; families were...
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  • Ieperfest is a Belgian hardcore music festival held in Ypres (Dutch: Ieper). The summer edition of the festival was first held in September 1992, then...
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  • Hevy Music Festival was a rock festival established by Claire Baker and James that took place annually near Folkestone, Kent, in the UK. It was originally...
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  • Parentalia (category Ancient Roman festivals)
    parentales ([ˈdɪ.eːs parɛnˈtaːleːs], "ancestral days") was a nine-day festival held in honour of family ancestors, beginning on 13 February. Although...
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    Slowdive, OK Go, Eve 6, Thrice, Toadies, Ash, Ride, Veruca Salt, Sleeper, Lemuria, and Treepeople. No music videos were released from Come On Pilgrim or...
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    films in 2008: The Burrowers, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, and released in the United States on DVD in April 2009, and The...
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    MTV, and made it possible for the band to present the album. The song "Lemuria" from the album was used by the organizer of the 2011 World Athletics Championship...
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  • dedicated to their placation in the household practices of Lemuralia or Lemuria. The head of household (paterfamilias) would rise at midnight and cast...
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    "Making Punk Fun Again" tour with The Queers, Bomb the Music Industry!, Lemuria, and Kepi Ghoulie. 2008 also saw the release of "Only God Can Judge Me"...
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    in June 1994 and recorded their debut album, A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria, in just two weeks. Due to label problems, the album was shelved for nearly...
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  • Family Plan Bundle Mount Shasta Heaven's Gate Cult 12 April 2020 168. Lemuria Studios and a Tarantula Millionaire Lemurians Nancy Moyer 19 April 2020...
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