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Dea Dia Summary (1132 words) |
 | The worship of the Roman goddess Dea Dia was in the hands of a priesthood of twelve, the fratres arvales (Arval brethren), and she possessed a shrine in a grove outside Rome at the fifth (or sixth, depending on the period) milestone on the Via Campana, in the modern suburb of La Magliana. |
| Referring to the cultic evidence, Schilling shows that the name Dea Dia is an emphatic doublet, meaning literally, "the celestial goddess." According to the Arval proceedings, Dea Dia performed her divine function between the periods of sowing and harvesting and was thus the good light of heaven that brought the crops from germination to maturation. |
| In Roman mythology, Dea Dia is the goddess of growth. |
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Bona Dea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (169 words) |
| In Roman mythology, Bona Dea ("the good goddess") was a goddess of fertility, healing, virginity and women. |
| On December 4, secret rites in honor of her were held in the house of a famous Roman magistrate. |
| It was an entirely female affair; even paintings or drawings of men or male animals were forbidden, along with the words "wine" and "myrtle" because Bona Dea had once been beaten by her father with a myrtle stick after she got drunk. |
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