• Sementivae, also known as Feriae Sementivae or Sementina dies (in the country called Paganalia), was a Roman festival of sowing. It was a type of feriae...
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    the Roman pontiffs. These were Compitalia ("Crossroads Festival") and Sementivae ("Festival of Sowing"), which the table below shows on the dates when...
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  • observances in Ancient Rome included Amburbium (precise date unknown), Sementivae (February 2), Februa (February 13–15), Lupercalia (February 13–15), Parentalia...
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  • moveable feasts (feriae conceptivae, "proclaimed festivals") like the Sementivae or Paganalia honoring Ceres and Tellus that varied to allow them to occur...
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  • celebrated also on the 11th 13 (Ides) 24–26: most common dates for the Sementivae, a feriae conceptivae of sowing, perhaps also known as the Paganalia as...
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    as "mothers of produce" at the moveable feast (feriae conceptivae) of Sementivae, a festival of sowing. On December 13, the anniversary of the Temple of...
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    moveable feasts (feriae conceptivae, "proclaimed festivals") like the Sementivae that were dependent on local conditions. Michels suggests this was the...
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  • appellatives" for verbal functions. The rite was held just before the Feriae Sementivae. W.H. Roscher lists these deities among the indigitamenta, lists of names...
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    Tellus) was offered spelt wheat and a pregnant sow, at the movable Feriae Sementivae. This was almost certainly held before the annual sowing of grain. The...
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    oscilla. The festivals at which the hanging of oscilla took place were: The Sementivae Feriae, or sowing festivals, and the Paganalia, the country festivals...
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  • factor, usually the agrarian cycle. They included Compitalia, Paganalia, Sementivae and Latinae (compare the moveable Christian holiday of Easter); imperativae...
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    the book talks about the festival of Concordia (637–650), the movable Sementivae with a prayer for agricultural productivity (655–704), and the feast of...
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