Talk:Parilia

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What an odd ceremony... the article itself is well-written and ordered, as well comprehensive in its account of the ceremony's proceedings. It might be helpful to separate the article into "History" and "Ceremony" sections, as the article is already fairly divided in this manner. The additional separation of rural and urban also makes sections more fitting. From what I checked Rome's traditional founding date was in 753 BC as well, so that's just an easy fix. Besides these points, the sourcing is extensive, and the article seems very cohesive and thorough. -Steven Berger

What's funny is, I actually just saw this festival on a calendar hanging in the Classics Department office... but anyway, the article is very detailed and well sourced. And it made me think about my own topic, roman agriculture, if i can write something to include an internal link about it. Something that could be interesting, if there's information, how widely was it practiced? Was it something that pretty much every farmer would do? I think it would also be helpful to include a little more about the god Pales in the article, like just add that Pales is the god of shepard and livestock. It would save an extra click and makes it clear why Pales should receive such a festival. I really liked the details about how the festival was carried out. It's the perfect type of information for an article about a festival. like Steven said, if you could seperate the article into categories it would be easier to read. The article is kind of long. Oh and some of the links dont link to an article probably.. like Fordicidia. and I was curious about them, so maybe give a little more information about them instead of an internal link. Just little fixes for a fun and interesting article. - Jessica Cheng

You have a lot of good information in this article, I would agree that you should try to break it up into sections. You might want to consider rewording some of your sentences, esp those describing Rural Structure, they make sense but they seem a bit awkward and could probably be put more clearly. Also double check the story of Romulus and Remus because I'm pretty sure that that's a really famous story (maybe emphasize this?). If it's not the story I'm thinking of, it might be good to emphasize that too? Finally, you might want to clarify the section about "under Roman rule," what excatly do you mean by that? Overall, the article is really informative and well organized. Good job! - Leslie Halpern

Traces of primitive religion in the Parilia

Ovid's Fasti (IV, 725 sgg.) are the main source of our knowledge of this festival and its rituals. Ovid here relates the invocation to be recited during the performance of the ritual. It is interesting to note the following content of this invocation in that it gives us some evidence of relics of animistic beliefs in Roman religion:

1)belief in the sacred nature of woods and springs as the dwelling of numerous numina, nymphs, etc. and hints to the existence of unidentified numinous beings. Consequent belief in a taboo and its possible violation (through interfering with the sacred: ie by trenspassing into the sacred space, breaking branches or even by just seeing somebody of godly nature).

2)Need to expiate the deriving fault and its consequences.

3)Extension of this concept of taboo in the belief of the sacred nature of more humanized /less stranger places as fields, linked to the possibility of seeing their gods, here Faunus.Aldrasto (talk) 05:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)