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Jupiter (Deity) - LoveToKnow 1911 (1022 words) |
 | As Jupiter Elicius he was propitiated, with a peculiar ritual, to send rain in time of drought; as Jupiter Fulgur he had an altar in the Campus Martius, and all places struck by lightning were made his property and guarded from the profane by a circular wall. |
| The vintage, which needs especially the light and heat of the sun, was under his particular care, and in the festivals connected with it (Vinalia Urbana) and Meditrinalia, he was the deity invoked, and his flamen the priest employed. |
| Throughout Italy we find him worshipped on the summits of hills, where nothing intervened between earth and heaven, and where all the phenomena of the sky could be conveniently observed. |
| Meditrinalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (215 words) |
| In Roman religion, Meditrinalia was an obscure festival celebrated on October 11 in honor of the new vintage, which was offered in libations to the gods for the first time each year. |
| It was known to be somehow connected to Jupiter and to have been an important ceremony in early agricultural Rome, but beyond that, only speculation exists. |
| Meditrina was a Roman goddess who seems to have been a late Roman invention to account for the origin of Meditrinalia. |
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