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Mos Maiorum

customs of our ancestors that shaped Roman social values and behavior.

fas

a term referring to what is divine law or permissible according to the gods in Roman society.

nefas

a term indicating what is forbidden or unlawful according to divine law in Roman society.

penates

the household gods of ancient Rome, representing the protection of the family and home.

lares

the guardian deities of the household in ancient Roman religion, associated with the protection of the family and the home.

pentates

a term often confused with "penates," referring to the deities associated with the protection of the household in ancient Roman religion.

genius

the divine spirit or guardian of an individual or place in ancient Roman religion, often associated with personal destiny and protection.

bula

protection amulet for kids - take off during adulthood

lunula

cresent shaped amulet worn by girls

Apotropaic

warding against evil

pharmakos

• scape goat

• religious miasma —> bad —> have to get rid of it

• source of religious miasma

pharmakon

drug/poison

Xenophanes

• if horses could draw gods they would look like horses

• previously believed: gods made us in their image

• X believed: We made the gods to look like us

Thucydides

• the grat plague

• what happens when society breaks down —> gods are not helping

• chaos

• important because it was a historical account

Plublius Claudies Pulcher + Sacred chickens

• Should i satart this war

• if yes - chickens eat, if no - chickens dont

• chickens dont

• thrown overboard

• Soldiers lose

• placebo efect

kledon

an omen that you see or here but you don’ tunderstand its meaning or significance.

Eg) hearing cauneas pears instead of cave ne eas ==> dont go

Augur

• roman

• way to translate the will of the gods

augry

• observing the birds

haruspace/haruspicy

• looking at the entrails of sacrificiual animals specifically

charter myth/ aetiological myth

a myth or legend believed to be true and used to justify or rationalize a continuing custom.

mystery religion

Mystery religions are secret cults that involve initiation rituals and worship of a single god

Tauroctony

Tauroctony is a modern name given to the central cult reliefs of the Mithraic Mysteries in the Roman Empire.

voces magicae

magic words

Evocators

• cal out souls of the dead and bring them back to living

• going agaisnt will of the gods

Kolossos/ kolossoi

Voodoo doll

Katabasis

descent into hell

orphic gold tablet

• to be saved from damnation

• let me remember my life when i die

Apollonius of Tuana

• exorcism - healing of sick

• difficult birth —> sympathetic magic, hera will not allow him to be born - galanthis releases a weasel to make hera open her legs

• exorcism —> religion

Defixio, Deficiones

• a curse tablet

• harmful/malevolent

• binding magic

• voces magicae

• rolled and pierced

• deopisited in grave/spring/crossroads

Prayers for justice

curse tablet with “just cause”

chthonic gods

underowrld gods

• hades persephone demeter nyx