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"O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem which is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written in the early 13th century. It is a complaint about Fortuna , the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman mythology .
The blindfolded depiction of her is still an important figure in many aspects of today's Italian culture, where the dichotomy fortuna / sfortuna (luck / unluck) plays a prominent role in everyday social life, also represented by the very common refrain "La [dea] fortuna è cieca" (latin Fortuna caeca est; "Luck [goddess] is blind"). Fortuna is ...
"O Fortuna" is a movement in Carl Orff's 1935–36 cantata Carmina Burana. It begins the opening and closing sections, both titled "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi". The cantata is based on a medieval Goliardic poetry collection of the same name, from which the poem "O Fortuna" provides the words sung in the movement. It was well-received during its ...
Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images").
Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of tales from myth and legend rewritten for a general readership by the American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, published after his death in 1867. The work was a successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers.
Orbona is a sub deity in Roman mythology. Unlike other deities, her presence is absent in Roman mythology. She was more of a protective figure in rituals related to childbirth and mourning. Her role highlights the everyday realities of child loss in ancient Roman society, even if she doesn’t have extensive stories or myths attributed to her.
Roman worship of Fortuna as the goddess of luck and fortune was common, and multiple versions of her existed with different epithets used to highlight different aspects of the goddess. Fortuna Muliebris is one such variant of the goddess, with the epithet "Muliebris" (Latin for "woman's" or "womanly") referring to her role as a Fortuna ...
According to such mythology, Hawaiki represents the origin of all Polynesian people and where they return after death. [17] Variations, such as Rarohenga, came to be after this traditional mythology dispersed across the numerous islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, whereupon it was adapted and redeveloped into new settings. [17]