Prayers to Vulcanus

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It is unethical to use material added by Marcus Horatius Piscinus, ex consul and Pontifex Maximus of Nova Roma, after expelling him and condemning him to "Damnatio Memoriae".
  
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As I wrote earlier, prayers to Vulcanus are scarce in Roman
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If you want to have prayers in this page, please make the effort of adding your own, and not just restoring a previous version of this page.
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literature. However there is mention of a charm where He is invoked
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to ward off fires from a home. It was very common for Roman houses
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to have such charms, so He was more important than our sources
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indicate. I'll have to see if I can recover that. These, however,
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are the only prayers I have found thus far.
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==Grattius Faliscus Gynegetica 437-42==
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Lucia Livia Plauta
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Holy Vulcanus, foremost of those who cherish this place, to You we
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pray for peace. Grant Your ultimate assistance to the tired and
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worn, and, if no one here merits punishment for some noxious crime,
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may You have mercy on all their souls and allow them to reach Your
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purifying fountains. Three times they invoke Your name, three times
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they pour rich incense upon the focal fire, and strew the altar with
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auspicious boughs in Your honor.
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==Martial Epigrammata 5.7.5 To Vulcan==
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Soon, I pray, Vulcan, memories of whispered rumors of disgrace and
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loud quarrels of complaint You will no longer hold against the
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children of Mars; we are also the children of Your sweet wife Venus,
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spare us, Father.
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Revision as of 23:27, 14 May 2014

It is unethical to use material added by Marcus Horatius Piscinus, ex consul and Pontifex Maximus of Nova Roma, after expelling him and condemning him to "Damnatio Memoriae".

If you want to have prayers in this page, please make the effort of adding your own, and not just restoring a previous version of this page.

Lucia Livia Plauta

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