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Every year, on the first of March, women held a festival in honour of Juno Lucina called the Matronalia. Lucina was an epithet for Juno as "she who brings children into light". On this day, lambs and cattle were sacrificed in her honor in the temple of her sacred grove on the Cispius. The second festival was devoted to Juno Moneta on June 1.
Hera is the protector of marriage and of the rights of the married women. [15] In some cults she has some functions of the earth goddess. She is occasionally related to warfare as tutelary goddess.
Articles relating to the goddess Juno and her cult. She was considered the protector and special counsellor of the state. She was equated to Hera, ...
The title lucina (from the Latin lux, lucis, "light") links both Juno and Diana to the light of the Moon, the cycles of which were used to track female fertility as well as measure the duration of a pregnancy. Priests of Juno called her by the epithet Juno Covella on the new moon. [1]
Women attended to the cult of Juno Fluonia "because she held back the flow of blood (i.e., menstruation) in the act of conception." [34] Medieval mythographers noted this aspect of Juno, [35] which marked a woman as a mater rather than a virgo. [36] Alemona feeds the embryo [37] or generally nourished growth in utero. [38]
Caecilia Metella was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus, consul in 123 BC. [2] [3]She was possibly married to Appius Claudius Pulcher, a politician of an old, somewhat impoverished, patrician family.
The date of the festival was associated with the dedication of a temple to Juno Lucina on the Esquiline Hill circa 268 BCE, and possibly also a commemoration of the peace between the Romans and the Sabines. On the day, women would participate in rituals at the temple, although the details have not been preserved other than the observation that ...
Gallo-Roman Tutela holding a patera in her right hand, Apollo and Diana in a twinned cornucopia in her left hand, with the twins Castor and Pollux on either side of her head, and bearing on her wings the seven deities of the days of the week (Saturn, Sol, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus), from the Mâcon treasure (AD 150-220)