Bona Dea

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Ancient Latin goddess of fertility, of women and thus guardian of the community. In Rome, the cult of Bona Dea was a state cult. The traditional dies natalis (foundation day) of her temple on the Aventine was celebrated on the Kalends of May. [1]

The temple had an herbarium dispensary, where the priestesses dipensed herbs, [2]


References

H.H.J. Brouwer "Bona Dea: The Sources and a Description of The Cult"

Notes

  1. Ovid Fasti
  2. Macrobius l.c

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