#Etruscan paganism

[oh-my-little-hearth]

Calling all pagans and practitioners!

I have been wanting to do more devotional poetry so if you’d like a poem or prayer about your specific’s deity or practice, send me your request in asks or the comments of this post!

All practices and paths are welcome to request <3

REQUESTS ARE OPEN

[thedansemacabres]

I am not sure if anyone else is deeply interested in apotropatic magic as I am, but it is very easy to invoke protective symbolisms around one's dwelling.

Do you need to keep spoils away? Put a picture of a serpent, especially if hellenic, to invoke the Agathos Daimon. Create rocks and monuments to gods, like Tinia Tular or Apollon Agyieus, invoke the imagery of Herakles who defeats monsters, or Arthur who protects the brythons.

Art is protection. Stained glass with symbols of heroes, cups with eyes, pictures of the harvest for plenty. Imagery of herbs and powers to invoke their likeness--does a mandrake still screech when framed?

[fontinalia]

The Festival of the snake catchers or snake-charmers) (Festa dei Serpari di Cocullo) is an annual festival held on May 1 in Cocullo, Italy in honour of St. Dominic di Sora, patron saint protecting against snakebite and toothache.

Its origins date back to paganism and have roots in an ancient celebration in honour of the Italian goddess Angitia (goddess of snake-charmers). The festival involves a procession carrying the statue of St. Dominic, draped with live snakes, through the streets of the village.

[elvthron]

What I love the most about Etruscan culture is probably the funerary tradition and their necropolis that can be found in various trails in the Tuscia. These places are often so silent and peaceful that is a true joy to spend some time among them.

I’m sure I can’t explain how really these necropolis have a strong “liminal place energy” (I told you I can’t explain it with my words…)

This one I’m posting in particular is the Cavone’s necropolis:

Located along the slope overlooking the Treja river, the necropolis was crossed by the ancient city that led to Falerii Veteres (Civita Castellana).

The funeral site was used from the beginning of the 8th century BC. until the 3rd century BC.

Archaeologists have found wells dug into the tuff, stone or wooden sarcophagi and chamber tombs built during the last period of stay in the necropolis.

My (uselessly included) sweaty face after reaching the hill where the necropolis is situated.

Extra: morels!! 🍄❤️

[wanderingskemetic]

The two kites keen over your body

Their voices lifted in mourning with those of your loved ones

Wepwawet walks in front of you

You follow his great gray form into the Duat

Culsu opens the gates at his approach

Vanth stands beside Wepwawet lighting your way

Her sword outstretched, warding off any that may cause you harm

The Tinas cliniar stand beside you

None will dare harm you with them here

Charun guards your back, his hammer ready

Sokar's wings unfold overhead

He greets your soul

Anpu takes your heart in his hands, ready to weigh it on the scales of Ma'at

Your heart is pure, Wesir and Calu smile at your approach

You are welcomed into their kingdoms

Hetheru comes forward to offer you succor

The field of reeds stretches before you

I stand behind with your body, your khat

The kites cries match my own

[paganimagevault]

Etruscan stamnos of man (Arimaspian?) fighting griffin 360-350 BCE. Ceramic, top. cm 29.8; diam. opening cm 17; diam. foot cm 12.3. Inv. 39568. On the other side a figure of a winged woman, seated on a small column, crowned, wears a simple peplum and her belt. (Unfortunately I couldn't find an image of the other side).

"Aristeas was supposed to have authored a poem called the Arimaspea, giving an account of travels in the far North. There he encountered a tribe called the Issedones, who told him of still more fantastic and northerly peoples: the one-eyed Arimaspi who battle gold-guarding griffins, and the Hyperboreans among whom Apollo lives during the winter.

Longinus excerpts a portion of the poem (Longinus, On the Sublime, tr. W. Rhys Roberts. Chapter 10):

A marvel exceeding great is this withal to my soul— Men dwell on the water afar from the land, where deep seas roll. Wretches are they, for they reap but a harvest of travail and pain, Their eyes on the stars ever dwell, while their hearts abide in the main. Often, I ween, to the Gods are their hands upraised on high, And with hearts in misery heavenward-lifted in prayer do they cry.

Similarly, the Chiliades of Ioannes Tzetzes quotes the Arimaspea. These two accounts form our entire knowledge of the poem, which is otherwise lost."

-taken from wikipedia

[oracleishdiviner]

It's Friday! It's the 1st of December too!

D you know what this means to my practice?

Time to munch on something, clean up my space a bit and light two candles, one is for my Gods, spirits and allies and the other is for my ancestors, to whom I've started to give an offering too.

Want to know what it is? Drum rolls please:

water. It's water, plain, simple, life sustaining water put on the altar dedicated to all my ancestors that already has specific objects to one of them, since this person is one of my very close relative that I love a lot.

I still can't have the space that I'd like to give proper alchol and food offerings, but I can welcome my loved ones weekly, celebrating them even if it's with this little ritual of mine.

I am still building my routine and finding a balance in my practice and slowly finding my pace and place, but I love my Friday lovely devotion time!

P.S: it might be also done to include all the Gods who are making themselves known recently and that I've never worked with before, to know themselves and make them know me better, but hey! Gotta do what we can with the place we are in, right!?

[alephskoteinos]

The wolf of Mars

After asking about Mars and wolves and getting inspired to look around I'm just going to go all on in here on the subject just like on Twitter because by gods the more I think about the subject the more I love it.

Mars apparently was frequently accompanied by wolves, and not just because his offspring were raised by a wolf. Livy apparently described a statue of Mars on the Appian Way in which Mars was accompanied by wolves. Livy also, in The History of Rome, recounted a story where a wolf appeared as a reminder of Mars as the founder of the Roman people and an omen of their good fortune. In Rome there was also a "lupus martius", or "wolf of Mars", that was believed by Romans to be an omen of victory in battle. There is also Roman iconography featuring Mars mounted upon a wolf, or being carried on a chariot driven by wolves. See example from the 2nd century below:

This motif appears to have carried on in later depictions of Mars from well after the Christianisation of Rome and much the European continent. An example here would be "Mars on his chariot pulled by wolves", painted by Claude Audran the Younger in 1673.

Wolves were most definitely the sacred animal of Mars, a connection that is perhaps not entirely separate from the founding myth of Rome, where the sons of Mars are raised by a she-wolf.

I also cannot help but interpret resonances with a broader chthonic context relevant to the larger culture of ancient Italy. Mars, on his own, has his own chthonic context, in that he was regarded not just as a god of war but also of fertility and agriculture, patron of the virtus of the earth. He can also be seen as a descendant of similar Etruscan deities, such as Maris, who were chthonic and vegetative in nature. This link is discussed further in The Issue of Descent of the Deity Mars by Ekaterine Kobakhidze.

More importantly, in Etruscan culture, wolves were inherently chthonic symbols. They were believed to be liminal beings that could pass between presence in this world and in the underworld. Wolves were often seen by the ancient Etruscans as either demons or the spirits of the dead, or perhaps even as representing death itself. Etruscan gods of the underworld, such as Calu, Suri, and Aita, were also strongly identified with wolves. Aita himself, a god very similar to the Greek god Hades, is distinguished by his wearing of a wolf skin cap.

There may also be certain reflections of this association in ancient Greece. The goddess Athena, for instance is sometimes depicted wearing a wolf cap, such as in statues of Athena Albani. This wolfskin cap itself is traditionally worn by none other than Hades, and the Illiad refers to Athena wearing this "cap of Hades" to avoid being seen by Ares. Wolves were also strongly associated with Apollo, and the heads of wolves also featured in necromantic rituals aimed at invocation. To quote Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden:

Greek language lychomancy recipes borrow necromantic procedures. In one, the lamp is set on the (disembodied?) head of a wolf. Chthonic demons are summoned, and Hades is invoked. There are libations of wine, honey, milk, and rainwater, and offerings of flat and round cakes.

Not forgetting about Lupercalia, that Roman festival which revolved around the veneration of a wolf deity, Lupercus, possibly linked to Pan, Faunus, or Apollo, and celebrating the ritual purity of the community by way of the passage of ancestral spirits through the underworld.

The warrior association also invites consideration of the wolves with the bands of warriors academically referred to as "Koryos" or "Mannerbund". In Greece, for instance, adolescent war bands honoured Apollo as the master of the wolves that symbolised their fighting style. The Norse Ulfhednar, who saw themselves as shapeshifting into wolves, are often counted as another example of a similar war band. In Russia, on the steppes at what is now Krasnosamarskoe, there were midwinter rituals where people consumed the flesh of dogs or wolves to become dog-like or wolf-like themselves.

It's kind of difficult to imagine how it all leads together outside of pure UPG. I just happen find whatever thread runs between the wolf symbolism of Mars to be fascinating, though I can see how it mostly just connects to the founding myth of Rome.

[satyrfag]

developing a personal pantheon is fun because sometimes it’s just like “i’m more drawn to the deity who serves this function in pantheon A than i am to the deity who serves this function in pantheon B” or “i know i want to honor a deity of XYZ and that only exists in one of these pantheons so that was easy”

but then sometimes it’s like “oh no i think i might have a completely different idea of how this part of the cosmology works than any of these pantheons”

[qldqueerboy]

It is a day of celebration. Joy fills your heart as you express your intimate feelings for the people in your life. Your confidence to articulate your emotions can’t be stopped because at a deeper level you hold nothing but respect for those around you. It is as if today you want to breakdown all those restrictions that have forced you from supressing how fulfilling and happy these people make you feel.

[ianitos]

not to hype my patron god up but i think he deserves more recognition within polytheistic and pagan spaces so i'm highlighting him

Janus

god/patron of doorways, change, beginnings, transitions, time, prophecy, history, omens, all dualities (ex. war/peace, but also things like beginning/end, life/death, barbarism/civilization, urban/rural, youth/adulthood, the list goes on)

his name derives from ianua which means door or doorway, Janus was an Etruscan and Roman tutelary and domestic deity. but his myths and level of importance varied: some viewed him as the initiator of life, others as a mortal king and son of Apollo, even, who then ascended to godhood, and his commonly accepted role of gatekeeper between our realm and the realm of the gods.

some fun facts:

janus' image was carved on coins! this is because he is legended to be the first to mint coins!

janus has two heads, this is because one faces the future while the other faces the past

janus has many wives! (jana, juturna, camese and sometimes venilia)

one of his most famous temples/holy grounds would signify eras of peace and war depending on if the doors were opened/closed

[elegantshapeshifter]

Is Italian Witchcraft... just Hellenism/Roman Religion?

In the past people asked me why didn't I "just deal with Roman Deities, being Italian".

At first I did not understand how people could not understand that Witchcraft could be a religion, especially Italian Witchcraft, having "new Deities."

The more time passed, however, the more I realized that often the "new Deities" are considered "part" of the pantheon of which they are remnants.

For example, Perchta and Holda are considered part of the Germanic pantheon by many pagans, despite the fact that they are figures who emerged and were present when the Christianization of those peoples had been completed by then.

Similarly, a Hellenist guy recently ranted about the fact that until the early 1800s "saint Demeter" was still worshipped in Eleusis, and he considered this pagan remain in Christian times as part of Hellenism.

Come to think of it, even Leland himself had called his book "Etruscan Roman Remains."

I can understand that Diana and Lucifer might fit in smearily, for example, if Lucifer is understood as an epithet of Apollo (who in fact has Phosphoros as one of his official epithets in the Orphic Hymns themselves)...

But my doubt is, if so, is Madonna Horiente to be considered a Roman goddess?

Is Aradia part of the Roman pantheon?

Are those who worship the Lady of the Game neo-Druids, being in northern Italy, or Hellenists/Religio Romana practitioners, considering that this Deity is now seen as a Roman and now as a Celtic remnant?

Certainly I have a connection with Religio Romana and Hellenism, because of how much of my pantheon I share with them.

From my own personal point of view, I also call myself "Hellenist" (in the sense established by Emperor Julian, thus including the Roman pantheon too).

But as an official classification, regardless of my preferences, I still have doubts about whether Italian Pagan remnants are Hellenism or Religio Romana rather than "Italian Traditional Witchcraft"/"[Region of Italy] Traditional Witchcraft."

It is possible perhaps to divide between:

- Hellenists who also include Greek and/or Italian pagan remnants in the Christian era (or Heathens who also include pagan remnants in the Christian era found in Germanic countries), and

- those who only worship pagan remnants (which I would ONLY call Traditional Witches).

What do you guys think?

[thedansemacabres]

THE 2024-2025 BRONTOSCOPTIC CALENDAR

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Content warning: The brontoscoptic refers to several possibly triggering events, such as death, disease, and abortion. The text also refers to common practices in the ancient world such as slavery and misogyny, which we must acknowledge for the evil it is.

A new year, new dates for the Brontoscoptic calendar! This year is a bit odd for the translation, the new moon in cancer was June 21st—meaning the majority of the “June” month is in July. The calendar picks back up on the next new moon, which is August 4th. Therefore the brontoscoptic month of July is in August. Strange for us to think of, but lunar calendars do not always translate easily into Gregorian.

Supposing that publicly, in all augural teaching, the ancients assumed the moon to be a reference point (for under this heading they classified both thunder and lightning signs), one likewise may correctly select the phase of the moon as a factor for reckoning, so that, beginning with Cancer, we shall make observations of thunder day by day, beginning with the first day of the lunar month, and following lunar months. From this [study] the Etruscans transmitted observations localized according to the regions that are struck from the sky by thunder. — Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice, Jean MacIntosh Turfa

JUNE-JULY 2024

CANCER JUNE 21ST-JULY 22ND

LEO JULY 23RD-AUGUST 22ND

FULL MOON IN CANCER JUNE 21ST, 2024: If in any way it should thunder, there will be an abundance of fruits, with the exception of barley; but dangerous diseases will be inflicted upon bodies.

12:00 JUNE 22ND: If in any way it should thunder, women in labor will have an easy delivery,

but there will be abortion of cattle, yet there will be an abundance of fish.

12:00 JUNE 23RD: If in any way it should thunder, there will be a scorching and drying wind, such that not only grains but even the soft fruits will be parched through and through and shrivel up.

12:00 JUNE 24TH: If in any way it should thunder, the air will be cloudy and rainy, so that out of a moldy dampness the crops will rot.

12:00 JUNE 25TH: If in any way it should thunder, ill-omened for the countryside. Those responsible for villages or towns will be thrown into a state of disorder.

12:00 JUNE 26TH: If in any way it should thunder, just as the crops are maturing, some sort of wild pest that has sunk deep into them will waste them.

12:00 JUNE 27TH: If in any way it should thunder, diseases will infect [men], but not many shall die. And although the cereal crops shall be successful, the soft fruits shall dry up.

12:00 JUNE 28TH: If in any way it should thunder, it indicates wet weather, and ruin of the grain.

12:00 JUNE 29TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be a loss of flocks through being overrun by wolves.

12:00 JUNE 30TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be frequent death, yet prosperity.

12:00 JULY 1ST: If in any way it should thunder, there will be days of heat, burning but harmless; there will be glad festivities in political affairs.

12:00 JULY 2ND: If in any way it should thunder, the same thing as on the preceding day.

12:00 JULY 3RD: If in any way it should thunder, it announces the fall of a ruler.

12:00 JULY 4TH: If in any way it should thunder, the atmosphere shall be burning hot, but there will be abundant harvest and good flow, not the poorest, of the river fish. Bodies, nevertheless, shall be utterly weak.

12:00 JULY 5TH: If in any way it should thunder, the winged creatures shall be injured during the summer, and also the fish shall perish.

12:00 JULY 6TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens not only dearth of the necessities of life, but also war, and a prosperous man shall disappear from public life.

12:00 JULY 7TH: If in any way it should thunder, there shall be days of burning heat and destruction by mice, blind-mice [field mice] and locusts. Still, it brings abundance and at the same time murders to the people.

12:00 JULY 8TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens destruction to the crops [soft fruits]. 

12:00 JULY 9TH: If in any way it should thunder, pests destructive to the crops shall perish.

12:00 JULY 10TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens discord for the community.

12:00 JULY 11TH: If in any way it should thunder, it means there will be a dearth of wine, but an increase in the other crops, and an abundance of fish.

12:00 JULY 12TH: If in any way it should thunder, the hot weather will be especially ruinous.

12:00 JULY 13TH: If in any way it should thunder, it announces good cheer, a putting aside of ills, and an end to disease.

12:00 JULY 14TH: If in any way it should thunder, it announces plenty.

12:00 JULY 15TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be wars and countless ills.

12:00 JULY 16TH: If in any way it should thunder, the winter will be especially harmful to the crops.

12:00 JULY 17TH: If in any way it should thunder, there is danger from the army for the men in power.

12:00 JULY 18TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be a good harvest for the crops.

12:00 JULY 19TH:  If in any way it should thunder, the affairs of the queenly city [Tarquinia] will be improved.

12:00 JULY 20TH: If in any way it should thunder, in a short time there shall be frequent death. 

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2024

LEO JULY 23RD-AUGUST 22ND

VIRGO AUGUST 23RD-SEPTEMBER 22ND

LIBRA SEPTEMBER 23RD-OCTOBER 22ND

12:00 AUGUST 4TH, NEW MOON: Upon the new moon, if in any way it should thunder, there shall be plenty, yet there shall be ruin [“Ruin” or “a falling” (πτῶσις) of the flocks: the connotation of falling down, or away, might have described a particular disease condition.] of the flocks.

12:00 AUGUST 5TH: If in any way it should thunder, the late autumn will be good.

12:00 AUGUST 6TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signals a heavy winter.

12:00 AUGUST 7TH: If in any way it should thunder, the airs will be turbulent, so that of them will be born scarcity.

12:00 AUGUST 8TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be an abundance of grain, yet it is the downfall of a virtuous ruler.

12:00 AUGUST 9TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens death-bearing diseases to the fortunes of slaves.

12:00 AUGUST 10TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be rains harmful to the grain fields.

12:00 AUGUST 11TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies peace for the community, but ruin for the cattle herds, and a dry cough shall infect.

12:00 AUGUST 12TH: If in any way it should thunder, it foretells a vision of the gods and the advancement of many good men.

12:00 AUGUST 13TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be lifesaving river waters.

12:00 AUGUST 14TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signals hot weather and stormy rain and a scarcity of grain.

12:00 AUGUST 15TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be unexpected cold in the summer, because of which the necessities of life will be spoiled.

12:00 AUGUST 16TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will appear the most poisonous reptiles.

12:00 AUGUST 17TH: If in any way it should thunder, it shows one man will come to power over many. But this man is most unjust in state affairs.

12:00 AUGUST 18TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be dissension among the common people and a scarcity of grain.

12:00 AUGUST 19TH: If in any way it should thunder, the king of the East … will be overcome [by?] war …and disease will be received from dry hot weather.

12:00 AUGUST 20TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies the succession of a great ruler.

12:00 AUGUST 21ST: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens a dearth of crops due to rainy weather.

12:00 AUGUST 22ND: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies war and the destruction of the powerful. On the other hand, there will be a plenty of cereals.

12:00 AUGUST 23RD: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens an unhealthy drought.

12:00 AUGUST 24TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be disagreement among the subjects, but not for long.

12:00 AUGUST 25TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signals good things for the affairs of state, but for the bodies, diseases around the head.

12:00 AUGUST 26TH: If in any way it should thunder, the dissension of the common people will come to an end.

12:00 AUGUST 27TH: If in any way it should thunder, it shows the possible misfortune of a powerful man.

12:00 AUGUST 28TH: If in any way it should thunder, it will go badly for a band of youth and also for the crops along with them. It will be a disease-bearing time.

12:00 AUGUST 29TH: If in any way it should thunder, after great plenty there will be famine.

12:00 AUGUST 30TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens subcutaneous eruptions to [men’s] bodies.

12:00 AUGUST 31ST: If in any way it should thunder, there will be a dearth of water and a plague of poisonous reptiles.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 1ST: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies a good harvest.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 2ND: If in any way it should thunder, men bent on vengeance shall slip into the worst kind of treachery.

[AUGUST] 12:00 SEPTEMBER 3RD: If in any way it should thunder, the affairs of the state will be slightly better, and there will be plenty.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 4TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens both diseases and at the same time a dearth of the necessities of life.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 5TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens both [public] trials and debates among the common people.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 6TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be a dearth of foodstuffs for both humans and dumb animals.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 7TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies that the women are the more sagacious.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 8TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be an abundance of honey, yet a lack of both water and the other foodstuffs.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 9TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signals harsh winds and diseases at the same time.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 10TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens harmless disease to the four-footed.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 1TH: If in any way it should thunder, it proclaims good health for men for a full year.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 12TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens bodily pains and wretchedness for the greater part of the people.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 13TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be a good harvest, yet the downfall of reptiles and harm to men.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 14TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be an abundance of cattle fodder and of acorns, but in the first ripening season, it will go badly.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 15TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be plague upon the bodies of both humans and dumb animals.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 16TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signals war for all the people, yet an abundance of crops.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 17TH: If in any way it should thunder, affairs will change for the worse.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 18TH: If in any way it should thunder, it promises a deep peace.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 19TH: If in any way it should thunder, the men of lowly degree shall be gloomy.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 20TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens civil war.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 21ST: If in any way it should thunder, the women and the servile class will dare to undertake murders.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 22ND: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens a plague on the cattle and disorder in the affairs of state.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 23RD: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens at once prosperity and discord among the commons.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 24TH: If in any way it should thunder, affairs will be moderately good for an entire year.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 25TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies that the lightning bolt shall fall, and warns of slaughter.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 26TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens the loss of wellborn youths.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 27TH: If in any way it should thunder, it foretells that during a stormy winter there will be a scarcity of soft fruits.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 28TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signals war.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 29TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens at once wars and treachery.

12:00 SEPTEMBER 30TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens at once wars and treachery.

12:00 OCTOBER 1ST: If in any way it should thunder, it signals both an abundance of crops and a loss by death of cattle.

12:00 OCTOBER 2ND: If in any way it should thunder, it signals no sort of reversal.

12:00 OCTOBER 3RD: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens diseases in the city over which it [the thunder] is cast down.

OCTOBER–NOVEMBER 2024

LIBRA SEPTEMBER 23RD-OCTOBER 22ND

SCORPIO OCTOBER 23RD-NOVEMBER 22ND

12:00 OCTOBER 4TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies both a good harvest and good cheer.

12:00 OCTOBER 5TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be discord among the common people.

12:00 OCTOBER 6TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies heavy rains and war.

12:00 OCTOBER 7TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies the downfall of a powerful man and preparation for war.

12:00 OCTOBER 8TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies an abundance of barley but a decrease in wheat.

12:00 OCTOBER 9TH: If in any way it should thunder, there shall be power among the women greater than [what is] appropriate to their nature.

12:00 OCTOBER 10TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens a disease and out of it, a disaster for the servile class.

12:00 OCTOBER 11TH: If in any way it should thunder, it indicates that those especially powerful will consider crooked dealings in government, but they will not achieve their aims.

12:00 OCTOBER 12TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens that a disease-bearing wind will blow.

12:00 OCTOBER 13TH: If in any way it should thunder, there will be strife in the area in which the thunder is let loose; for another place [it is] not inapplicable.

12:00 OCTOBER 14TH: If in any way it should thunder, the underlings of the wellborn will foment revolution in the state.

12:00 OCTOBER 15TH: If in any way it should thunder, it says that the time of harvest shall be very rainy and there shall be famine.

12:00 OCTOBER 16TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens grave famine.

12:00 OCTOBER 17TH: If in any way it should thunder, it threatens diseases.

12:00 OCTOBER 18TH: If in any way it should thunder, it signifies a wet spell, but at the same time, prosperity.

12:00 OCTOBER 19TH: If in any way it should thunder, it is made known that there will be good sprouting, but [the plants will be] fruitless.

12:00 OCTOBER 20TH: If it thunders, it threatens a lack of the necessities.

12:00 OCTOBER 21ST: If it thunders, it signals both famine and wars.

12:00 OCTOBER 22ND: If it thunders, the fruits of the trees will be successful, but there will be diseases and sedition among the commons.

12:00 OCTOBER 23RD: If it thunders, it threatens the destruction of a famous man and war.

12:00 OCTOBER 24TH: If it thunders, it threatens ills and losses for the people.

12:00 OCTOBER 25TH: If it thunders, it signals prosperity yet a heavy and wet winter.

12:00 OCTOBER 26TH: If it thunders, it foretells a time of need during the winter of the year.

12:00 OCTOBER 27TH: If it thunders, it threatens a drought. There will be an abundant harvest of the hard-shelled fruits [tree nuts?]; around late autumn though, they will be destroyed by storms.

12:00 OCTOBER 28TH: If it thunders, out of civil unrest a tyrant shall be raised up, and he will be undone, but the powerful will be destroyed utterly with insufferable penalties.

12:00 OCTOBER 29TH: If it thunders, a corrupt ruler will be felled by divine decision.

12:00 OCTOBER 30TH: If it thunders, powerful men will work hatred toward themselves, and shall take sides against each other.

12:00 OCTOBER 31ST: If it thunders, there will be signs revealing great things. Beware lest it pour rain upon the fire of joyful elation.

12:00 NOVEMBER 1ST: If it thunders, it threatens a severe drought.

12:00 NOVEMBER 2ND: If it thunders, affairs of state [shall change] from worse to better.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2024

SCORPIO OCTOBER 23RD-NOVEMBER 22ND

SAGITTARIUS NOVEMBER 23RD-DECEMBER 21ST

12:00 NOVEMBER 3RD: If it thunders, it threatens a corrupt tyrant over the affairs of state.

12:00 NOVEMBER 4TH: If it thunders, there will be prosperity but the destruction of the mice of dry land.

12:00 NOVEMBER 5TH: If it thunders, it signifies hurricanes and disturbances by which the trees will be overturned; there will be a great disruption in the affairs of common people.

12:00 NOVEMBER 6TH: If it thunders, the lower classes will have the upper hand over their betters, and the mildness of the air will be healthy.

12:00 NOVEMBER 7TH: If it thunders, there will be a surplus of all the necessities excepting grain.

12:00 NOVEMBER 8TH: If it thunders, appearance of future abundance, yet harvest will be less plentiful and autumn practically empty of fruit.

12:00 NOVEMBER 9TH: If it thunders, pulses will be plentiful but wine less.

12:00 NOVEMBER 10TH: If it thunders, an earthquake with roaring is to be expected.

12:00 NOVEMBER 11TH: If it thunders, it threatens destruction to wild beasts.

12:00 NOVEMBER 12TH: If it thunders, it signifies the downfall of a praiseworthy man.

12:00 NOVEMBER 13TH: If it thunders, it signifies a strange sort of wind will be of service to the pastures.

12:00 NOVEMBER 14TH: If it thunders, there will be prosperity, but wind squalls will oppress.

12:00 NOVEMBER 15TH: If it thunders, commerce [business dealings, contracts] will be good, and prosperity in addition. He who controls the government with heavy hand will not be strong for very long.

12:00 NOVEMBER 16TH: If it thunders, it threatens war and the loss of flocks to death.

12:00 NOVEMBER 17TH: If it thunders, there will be scarcity from a dry and searing wind falling upon the crops.

12:00 NOVEMBER 18TH: If it thunders, men will be weakened in such a manner that they will seem to be unrecognizable.

12:00 NOVEMBER 19TH: If it thunders, good fortune for a rich man and for men wellborn.

12:00 NOVEMBER 20TH: If it thunders, it signifies a plentiful grain supply brought in from foreign lands.

12:00 NOVEMBER 21ST: If it thunders, it warns the downfall of a ruler or the overthrow of a king, but it warns both discord among the common people and abundance.

12:00 NOVEMBER 22ND: If it thunders, it warns there will be a festering wound, and for the many, extreme suffering out of the discord.

12:00 NOVEMBER 23RD: If it thunders, there will be coughing sicknesses and oppression of the heart.

12:00 NOVEMBER 24TH: If it thunders, it threatens for the people, bad conditions and spotted diseases.

12:00 NOVEMBER 25TH: If it thunders, the people will be of marvelously good cheer.

12:00 NOVEMBER 26TH: If it thunders, out of the discord of those in power, the common people will oppress [others].

12:00 NOVEMBER 27TH: If it thunders, there will be heavy misery resulting from misfortunes.

12:00 NOVEMBER 28TH: If it thunders, there will be an increase of animals, but at the same time they will suffer thirst.

12:00 NOVEMBER 29TH: If it thunders, it signifies heavy rains.

12:00 NOVEMBER 30TH: If it thunders, there will be a dearth of the necessities.

12:00 DECEMBER 1ST: If it thunders, a year of serious disease.

12:00 DECEMBER 2ND: If it thunders, it signifies not merely prosperity, but even fewer enemies, and good cheer for the state.

DECEMBER-JANUARY 2024-2025

SAGITTARIUS NOVEMBER 23RD-DECEMBER 21ST

CAPRICORN DECEMBER 22ND-JANUARY 19TH

12:00 DECEMBER 3RD: If it thunders, it signifies discord for the city.

12:00 DECEMBER 4TH: If it thunders, it foretells prosperity.

12:00 DECEMBER 5TH: If it thunders, situations will pertain through which the lower classes will oppress [their] betters.

12:00 DECEMBER 6TH: If it thunders, grain will be better.

12:00 DECEMBER 7TH: If it thunders, it signifies storm for the state, and disease for humans and dumb animals alike.

12:00 DECEMBER 8TH: If it thunders, borers will ruin the grain.

12:00 DECEMBER 9TH: If it thunders, for those who are in the west, both humans and dumb beasts, diseases.

12:00 DECEMBER 10TH: If it thunders, it says gluttony shall come about from menacing diseases.

12:00 DECEMBER 11TH: If it thunders, the common people will be led into misery, but an abundance of daily provisions.

12:00 DECEMBER 12TH: If it thunders, for those in power, it makes an end to their perverted plans. A parching wind will wrack the trees.

12:00 DECEMBER 13TH: If it thunders, men shall give blessings to the god, for the wind shall blow out of the east.

12:00 DECEMBER 14TH: If it thunders, it indicates insomnia for some time for men.

12:00 DECEMBER 15TH: If it thunders, a wealthy yet sickly period threatens, tormenting bodies with internal worms.

12:00 DECEMBER 16TH: If it thunders, poisonous snakes shall somehow be gently undone by the men.

12:00 DECEMBER 17TH: If it thunders, the fish especially plentiful, but it shall plague the water-bound beasts. The commonwealth rather better.

12:00 DECEMBER 18TH: If it thunders, the creation of locusts and field-voles, to the king, danger, and there will be an abundance of grain.

12:00 DECEMBER 19TH: If it thunders, it signifies plentiful fodder for the flocks.

12:00 DECEMBER 20TH: If it thunders, it signifies war and woes for city folk.

12:00 DECEMBER 21ST: If it thunders, welfare of women.

12:00 DECEMBER 22ND: If it thunders, it signifies famine not of long duration.

12:00 DECEMBER 23RD: If it thunders, the mice shall perish; an abundance not merely of grain but also of pasturage, and a plenty of fish.

12:00 DECEMBER 24TH: If it thunders, it signifies a year of well-being.

12:00 DECEMBER 25TH: If it thunders, disease-bearing wind will blow.

12:00 DECEMBER 26TH: If it thunders, the watch post shall complete for the state good service against enemy tricks.

12:00 DECEMBER 27TH: If it thunders, there will be a very dangerous war.

12:00 DECEMBER 28TH: If it thunders, it signifies a civil war and the death of many.

12:00 DECEMBER 29TH: If it thunders, it threatens the same.

12:00 DECEMBER 30TH: If it thunders, many of the councilmen of the wealthier rank shall be ruined utterly by cowardice.

12:00 DECEMBER 31ST: If it thunders, the lower classes will do better, but the hoped-for fruit harvest shall be destroyed.

12:00 JANUARY 1ST: If it thunders, the mortals shall live in a condition more favored by the gods. Naturally, evils [will come] in due proportion.

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2025

CAPRICORN DECEMBER 22ND-JANUARY 19TH

AQUARIUS JANUARY 20TH-FEBRUARY 18TH

12:00 JANUARY 2ND: If it thunders, it signifies a year of well-being according to concord.

12:00 JANUARY 3RD: If it thunders, a plenty of fish and especially of fruits.

12:00 JANUARY 4TH: If it thunders, men will excessively consume their flocks because of a dearth of fish.

12:00 JANUARY 5TH: If it thunders, winter will be heavy, yet [there will be] abundance also.

12:00 JANUARY 6TH: If it thunders, it threatens mangy diseases.

12:00 JANUARY 7TH: If it thunders, the men shall be visited with visions of the faces of the gods, they shall experience a bad outcome.

12:00 JANUARY 8TH: If it thunders, it signifies the same for all.

12:00 JANUARY 9TH: If it thunders, virulent disease; out of it, though, will be an abundance of crops, but a plague on the flocks.

12:00 JANUARY 10TH: If it thunders, there will be the downfall of a famous man.

12:00 JANUARY 11TH: If it thunders, it threatens slaughter for men from diseases, but the fish shall be abundant.

12:00 JANUARY 12TH: If it thunders, heat-bearing shall be the summer season, and plenty imported from foreign lands.

12:00 JANUARY 13TH: If it thunders, it threatens diseases from diarrhea.

12:00 JANUARY 14TH: If it thunders, plenty, yet diseases it threatens.

12:00 JANUARY 15TH: If it thunders, it signifies at the same time civil war and abundance.

12:00 JANUARY 16TH: If it thunders, many will set out for war but few shall return.

12:00 JANUARY 17TH: If it thunders, newfangled affairs for the state.

12:00 JANUARY 18TH: If it thunders, it threatens that small locusts shall be born, yet there will still be plenty.

12:00 JANUARY 19TH: If it thunders, there shall be a heavy war.

12:00 JANUARY 20TH: If it thunders, it threatens prolongation of war.

12:00 JANUARY 21ST: If it thunders, it tells a lack of the necessities.

12:00 JANUARY 22ND: If it thunders, it threatens a hot and disease-making wind will blow.

12:00 JANUARY 23RD: If it thunders, the summer will be hot but plentiful in crops.

12:00 JANUARY 24TH: If it thunders, it signifies a disease for men but a harmless one.

12:00 JANUARY 25TH: If it thunders, it threatens civil wars for the city, and a plague on the beasts of the woods.

12:00 JANUARY 26TH: If it thunders, a movement of troops to war, but it will turn out well.

12:00 JANUARY 27TH: If it thunders, it threatens diseases for the slaves.

12:00 JANUARY 28TH: If it thunders, the king will help many.

12:00 JANUARY 29TH: If it thunders, the hatching of locusts.

12:00 JANUARY 30TH: If it thunders, it signifies the most healthful leanness for the bodies.

12:00 JANUARY 31ST: If it thunders, it signifies a rebellion against the kingdom and, reasonably, war.

FEBRUARY-MARCH 2025

AQUARIUS JANUARY 20TH-FEBRUARY 18TH

PISCES FEBRUARY 19TH-MARCH 20TH

12:00 FEBRUARY 1ST: If it thunders, a fast wind will blow, but not dangerous.

12:00 FEBRUARY 2ND: If it thunders, there will be unlooked-for war.

12:00 FEBRUARY 3RD: If it thunders, it shows after victory, loss for those in the war. Still, there will be plenty.

12:00 FEBRUARY 4TH: If it thunders, the common people will agree to make peace.

12:00 FEBRUARY 5TH: If it thunders, it signals health for the flocks.

12:00 FEBRUARY 6TH: If it thunders, it threatens a coughing sickness, but signifies an abundance of fish and of fruits.

12:00 FEBRUARY 7TH: If it thunders, there will be a slave revolt and recurring illness.

12:00 FEBRUARY 8TH: If it thunders, the ruler of the state shall be in danger from the people.

12:00 FEBRUARY 9TH: If it thunders, the king of the East shall be in danger.

12:00 FEBRUARY 10TH: If it thunders, it signifies rapid movement of wind, and a plenty of grain, but a dearth of other crops.

12:00 FEBRUARY 11TH: If it thunders, it signals famine [reaching] just up to dumb animals.

12:00 FEBRUARY 12TH: If it thunders, men shall be damaged in their faces, but there will be much fodder [for horses/cattle], and a plenty of fish.

12:00 FEBRUARY 13TH: If it thunders, it threatens diseases.

12:00 FEBRUARY 14TH: If it thunders, it threatens need, and the birth of mice, and the destruction of four-footed creatures.

12:00 FEBRUARY 15TH: If it thunders, servile revolt, and punishment for them, and abundance of crops.

12:00 FEBRUARY 16TH: If it thunders, the people shall be oppressed by the king.

12:00 FEBRUARY 17TH: If it thunders, it threatens non-dangerous diseases.

12:00 FEBRUARY 18TH: If it thunders, affairs circulating abroad shall make the people rise up.

12:00 FEBRUARY 19TH: If it thunders, when the king will have victory, then the common people will have the upper hand/stronger position.

12:00 FEBRUARY 20TH: If it thunders, there will be abundance of imported goods, but a coughing disease will afflict bodies.

12:00 FEBRUARY 21ST: If it thunders, the king hated by many shall be the object of a final plot.

12:00 FEBRUARY 22ND: If it thunders, there will be plenty, but also there will be an abundance of mice and of deer.

12:00 FEBRUARY 23RD: If it thunders, it signifies good order for the city.

12:00 FEBRUARY 24TH: If it thunders, it signifies disease following want.

12:00 FEBRUARY 25TH: If it thunders, there will be unrest among the slaves.

12:00 FEBRUARY 26TH: If it thunders, many shall be cut down by a man in power, but in the end he himself [will be killed].

12:00 FEBRUARY 27TH: If it thunders, it signifies nonthreatening diseases.

12:00 FEBRUARY 28TH: If it thunders, the fish of the sea shall be plentiful, but yet the flocks will be ruined by death.

12:00 MARCH 1ST: If it thunders, the condition of the air oppressive, and disease-bearing forall.

12:00 MARCH 2ND: If it thunders, it threatens plentiful death.

MARCH-APRIL 2025

PISCES FEBRUARY 19TH-MARCH 20TH

ARIES MARCH 21ST-APRIL 19TH

12:00 MARCH 3RD: If it thunders, it threatens war and the ruin of wealthy men.

12:00 MARCH 4TH: If it thunders, wheat in less supply, but barley better, and an increase in livestock, but there will be a wasting away of humans.

12:00 MARCH 5TH: If it thunders, there will be civil unrest.

12:00 MARCH 6TH: If it thunders, men shall be troubled not only in visage but also in their very minds.

12:00 MARCH 7TH: If it thunders, there will be a large harvest, a destruction for men.

12:00 MARCH 8TH: If it thunders, destruction of grain supplies and especially barley.

12:00 MARCH 9TH: If it thunders, it threatens destruction though not for long to humans.

12:00 MARCH 10TH: If it thunders, the greatest affair will inflame the state, and also fish will increase and yet dangerous wild beasts shall perish.

12:00 MARCH 11TH: If it thunders, worse the barley.

12:00 MARCH 12TH: If it thunders, the wild beasts shall undo the humans.

12:00 MARCH 13TH: If it thunders, good deliveries [in childbirth] for women.

12:00 MARCH 14TH: If it thunders, it threatens frequent death and unseasonable winds.

12:00 MARCH 15TH: If it thunders, there will be plenty, yet at the same time, political unrest.

12:00 MARCH 16TH: If it thunders, it threatens loss of progeny, and an onslaught of poisonous reptiles.

12:00 MARCH 17TH: If it thunders, the air shall carry plague, creation of both wild beasts and mice.

12:00 MARCH 18TH: If it thunders, to the people, auspicious, but of the powerful ones, bad [will come] out of discord.

12:00 MARCH 19TH: If it thunders, summer will be most fruitful.

12:00 MARCH 20TH: If it thunders, it threatens a heavy wind and eruption of pustules on bodies.

12:00 MARCH 21ST: If it thunders, there will be a throng of reptiles, and in addition, of worms.

12:00 MARCH 22ND: If it thunders, it signifies fine breezes.

12:00 MARCH 23RD: If it thunders, it signifies abundance.

12:00 MARCH 24TH: If it thunders, the air will be disease-carrying but not lethal.

12:00 MARCH 25TH: If it thunders, it threatens deformity for men, but destruction for birds.

12:00 MARCH 26TH: If it thunders, it threatens good health for men, but destruction for both fish and reptiles.

12:00 MARCH 27TH: If it thunders, to those living luxuriously, a reversal. There will be wars, and a heavy storm.

12:00 MARCH 28TH: If it thunders, it threatens hot weather, and a lack of water, and scabs on bodies.

12:00 MARCH 29TH: If it thunders, it signifies unrest among the commons.

12:00 MARCH 30TH: If it thunders, it prophesies abundance, yet at the same time, a disease-giving wind will blow.

12:00 MARCH 31ST: If it thunders, it signifies war and abundance.

12:00 APRIL 1ST: If it thunders, it signifies good things with long duration after great divisions of the people.

APRIL-MAY 2025

ARIES MARCH 21ST-APRIL 19TH

TAURUS APRIL 20TH-MAY 20TH

12:00 APRIL 2ND: If it thunders, for the entire year there will be strife and disagreements.

12:00 APRIL 3RD: If it thunders, it shall end the threatening affairs.

12:00 APRIL 4TH: If it thunders, for the state, discord following famine.

12:00 APRIL 5TH: If it thunders, there will be boundless prosperity.

12:00 APRIL 6TH: If it thunders, the spring will be sunny and the summer fruitful.

12:00 APRIL 7TH: If it thunders, the same and even better.

12:00 APRIL 8TH: If it thunders, a heavy wind will arise, which shall move the affairs of powerful men.

12:00 APRIL 9TH: If it thunders, it signals rains.

12:00 APRIL 10TH: If it thunders, it threatens ruin of man and creation of wild beasts.

12:00 APRIL 11TH: If it thunders, destruction to the four-footed.

12:00 APRIL 12TH: If it thunders, it signifies heavy rain and the creation of locusts.

12:00 APRIL 13TH: If it thunders, a powerful man in politics or a general is endangered; on his behalf, battles will be waged, and the wild beasts shall fall upon man.

12:00 APRIL 14TH: If it thunders, there will be plenty but the wild beasts shall be destroyed and the fish shall increase; and reptiles will trouble habitations but will not be harmful.

12:00 APRIL 15TH: If it thunders, it signals prosperity but threatens a death of men and birth of wild beasts.

12:00 APRIL 16TH: If it thunders, it signals hot spells and drought and a great throng of mice and fish.

12:00 APRIL 17TH: If it thunders, healthful the year, yet lacking in necessities.

12:00 APRIL 18TH: If it thunders, something unexpected will befall the people; ruin upon ruin for men and four-footed beasts.

12:00 APRIL 19TH: If it thunders, it signifies a period of severe rain, and disease, and the birth of locusts, barrenness [of crops] near at hand.

12:00 APRIL 20TH: If it thunders, a very dry summer and destructive.

12:00 APRIL 21ST: If it thunders, man will live with better behavior at the same time as more prosperously.

12:00 APRIL 22ND: If it thunders, it signifies prosperity after wars and hot spells causing destruction.

12:00 APRIL 23RD: If it thunders, destruction of birds, but a plenty of daily supplies.

12:00 APRIL 24TH: If it thunders, it signifies discord.

12:00 APRIL 25TH: If it thunders, it signifies prosperity.

12:00 APRIL 26TH: If it thunders, new affairs are given birth among the people.

12:00 APRIL 27TH: If it thunders, it announces [the] acquisition of imported slaves [prisoners of war]. 

12:00 APRIL 28TH: If it thunders, it signifies abundance imported from abroad.

12:00 APRIL 29TH: If it thunders, there will be a plenty of marine fish.

12:00 APRIL 30TH: If it thunders, the women shall obtain the better reputation.

12:00 MAY 1ST: If it thunders, there will be some powerful, self-possessed man of the kingdom, through whom [will come] good cheer.

MAY 2025

TAURUS APRIL 20TH-MAY 20TH

GEMINI MAY 21ST-JUNE 21ST

12:00 MAY 2ND: If it thunders, it threatens civil discord and the downfalls of fortunes.

12:00 MAY 3RD: If it thunders, sign of justice, bearing prosperity to good men, and paltry things to evil men.

12:00 MAY 4TH: If it thunders, it signifies profit out of a grain supply brought from abroad.

12:00 MAY 5TH: If it thunders, anger it threatens of those more powerful against the upright.

12:00 MAY 6TH: If it thunders, it signals a hot summer early [in the season] but a healthful year.

12:00 MAY 7TH: If it thunders, civil wars will arise.

12:00 MAY 8TH: If it thunders, it signifies all good things and a prosperous season.

12:00 MAY 9TH: If it thunders, it signifies heavy rains bearing disease.

12:00 MAY 10TH: If it thunders, it signifies victory for the kingdom and good cheer for the powerful ones.

12:00 MAY 11TH: If it thunders, of upright men there will be advances.

12:00 MAY 12TH: If it thunders, it signals the same things.

12:00 MAY 13TH: If it thunders, rains and prosperity and ruin of fish it signifies.

12:00 MAY 14TH: If it thunders, for men and for cattle destruction it threatens.

12:00 MAY 15TH: If it thunders, good health and prosperity it signifies.

12:00 MAY 16TH: If it thunders, it signals a plague.

12:00 MAY 17TH: If it thunders, it signifies abundance but at the same time the birth of field-voles.

12:00 MAY 18TH: If it thunders, it signals a plenty of daily supplies.

12:00 MAY 19TH: If it thunders, it signals discord and thoughtlessness of men.

12:00 MAY 20TH: If it thunders, a powerful man in the state shall be deprived at once of both reputation and property.

12:00 MAY 21ST: If it thunders, it signals divine anger.

12:00 MAY 22ND: If it thunders, it signifies good fortune for the crops, yet war for the state.

12:00 MAY 23RD: If it thunders, it will be the destruction of the flies.

12:00 MAY 24TH: If it thunders, it signifies a rain helpful for the sprouting time.

12:00 MAY 25TH: If it thunders, there will be discord among those in power, but their plans will be exposed.

12:00 MAY 26TH: If it thunders, peace during the entire year.

12:00 MAY 27TH: If it thunders, it signifies great hope of fruits and scarcity of harvests.

12:00 MAY 28TH: If it thunders, omens from the sky incredibly shall be revealed.

12:00 MAY 29TH: If it thunders, by shields the people shall be saved.

12:00 MAY 30TH: If it thunders, a zephyrus will prevail.

12:00 MAY 31ST:If it thunders, a shower of good things.

JUNE 2025

GEMINI MAY 21ST-JUNE 21ST

CANCER JUNE 21ST-JULY 22ND

12:00 JUNE 1ST: If it thunders, it signifies flight for the common people and loss of honor.

12:00 JUNE 2ND: If it thunders, it threatens need.

12:00 JUNE 3RD: If it thunders, it signifies abundance imported from abroad.

12:00 JUNE 4TH: If it thunders, the air will be mild and the crops will be plentiful.

12:00 JUNE 5TH: If it thunders, there will be an interchange of hardships in political affairs, and wheat more plentiful than barley. The pulses, however, will be ruined.

12:00 JUNE 6TH: If it thunders, it signifies that crops will ripen in haste and will be ruined.

12:00 JUNE 7TH: If it thunders, there will be abundance of birds and fish.

12:00 JUNE 8TH: If it thunders, ill-omened for the common people.

12:00 JUNE 9TH: If it thunders, it signals plague, but not exceptionally life-threatening.

12:00 JUNE 10TH: If it thunders, it announces storms, heavy rain, heavy floods of the rivers, a throng of lizards and of reptiles.

12:00 JUNE 11TH: If it thunders, abundance to be hoped for both on land and sea.

12:00 JUNE 12TH: If it thunders, there will be destruction of fish.

12:00 JUNE 13TH: If it thunders, it signals an increase in river waters, but diseases for men.

12:00 JUNE 14TH: If it thunders, there will be eastern war and great want.

12:00 JUNE 15TH: If it thunders, it signifies abundance.

12:00 JUNE 16TH: If it thunders, atonement must be made on account of terrible news.

12:00 JUNE 17TH: If it thunders, it signifies rainy weather.

12:00 JUNE 18TH: If it thunders, discord and out of it war and a lack of daily supplies.

12:00 JUNE 19TH: If it thunders, through good will of the people, some man shall be exalted to the height of good fortune.

12:00 JUNE 20TH: If it thunders, for those in the east, prosperity, but for those in the west, not the same.

12:00 JUNE 21ST: If it thunders, atonement must be made on account of terrible news.

12:00 JUNE 22ND: If it thunders, it signals heavy rains and destruction of marine fish.

12:00 JUNE 23RD: If it thunders, it signifies a good and fruitful rain.

12:00 JUNE 24TH: If it thunders, great evils such that those hearkening [to them] shall pass away from grief.

12:00 JUNE 25TH: If it thunders, a hoped-for resting place and slackening of evils.

12:00 JUNE 26TH: If it thunders, good for those working upon the tilled land.

12:00 JUNE 27TH: If it thunders, there shall be prodigies, and a comet shall shine forth.

12:00 JUNE 28TH: If it thunders, it shall be the same.

12:00 JUNE 29TH: If it thunders, it signals northern war, but not dangerous for commerce.

12:00 JUNE 30TH: If it thunders, the sprouting crops will be chilled by the winds.

FULL MOON IN CANCER 12:00 JULY 10TH: Upon the new moon, if in any way it should thunder, there shall be plenty, yet there shall be ruin [“Ruin” or “a falling” (πτῶσις) of the flocks: the connotation of falling down, or away, might have described a particular disease condition.] of the flocks.

References

The Religion of the Etruscans. (2006). In University of Texas Press eBooks. University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/706873

Turfa, J. M. (2012). Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice.

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The Italic Myth of Vertumnus and Pomona:

Pomona was a beautiful and dedicated goddess, entirely devoted to her orchards. She had little interest in romance or suitors, and her primary love was her garden.

Vertumnus, the god of seasons and change, was deeply in love with Pomona. he admired her dedication to her orchards and sought to win her affection. However, knowing that Pomona avoided suitors, he devised a plan to approach her by using his powers of transformation.

Vertumnus took on various disguises to get close to Pomona. He appeared as different figures: a reaper, a farmer, a soldier, but Pomona rejected each one. finally, Vertumnus disguised himself as an old woman, believing that Pomona might be more open to advice from someone she did not perceive as a threat.

In the guise of the old woman, Vertumnus engaged Pomona in conversation, praising her work and discussing the joys of love. He then told her a cautionary tale of a beautiful maiden who rejected love and suffered for it. the disguised Vertumnus encouraged Pomona to accept the love of someone who truly cared for her, pointing out that Vertumnus, as the god of seasons and growth, was well-suited to be her partner.

Moved by the story and the old woman’s words, Pomona began to soften. At this moment, Vertumnus revealed his true form, casting off the disguise. when Pomona saw his divine beauty and realized how much he loved her, she finally accepted his advances.

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Bolsena today 🩶 lots of Roman/etruscan remains and art but,especially, cats 🐈

The view is better in real life though.

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These Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals

Discovered in a dig at a thermal spring in Tuscany, Italy, the well-preserved items offer a glimpse into medical practices from the Etruscan and Roman eras.

An exhibition that opened Friday at Rome’s Quirinal Palace could be described as a classic rags-to-riches story.

Just ten months ago, many of the bronze statues now on show there — artfully spotlighted and captioned — were submerged in layers of thick mud in what had been a sacred pool of thermo-mineral water roughly halfway between Florence and Rome.

Their rediscovery last fall during an ongoing archaeological excavation in a field just below the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni made headlines around the world, propelling the bronzes — via a stint in Italy’s main restoration institute — to the rare honor of being exhibited at the presidential palace.

“It’s an extraordinary discovery,” Luigi La Rocca, the culture ministry official responsible for archaeology, fine arts and landscape, told reporters at the palace on Thursday, praising the variety of the bronzes, their quality and their high degree of conservation.

The artifacts — mostly dating from the second century B.C. to the first century A.D. — were votive offerings collected in the sacred pool of the so-called Bagno Grande, or “large bath,” part of a sanctuary that was in use in various forms for more than 700 years.

Lightning struck the building around the first century A.D., and following the Etruscan tradition of burying objects struck by lightning in a sacred place, the statues and other artifacts were concealed under a layer of terra-cotta tiles along with a bronze thunderbolt, a ritual called “fulgur conditum.”

Successive votive offerings, mostly bronze coins and plants, were deposited until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D. Then, the sanctuary was dismantled, and its offerings were buried once again, which contributed to their remarkable conservation.

The dig that uncovered them began in 2019, but it was only in 2020 that the first artifacts — inscriptions, altars and small bronzes — began to emerge. Last year, the archaeologists dug further down into the sacred pool.

“We thought there could be something here, but nothing like what we found,” said Emanuele Mariotti, the director of the excavation, on a recent hot afternoon as he surveyed the site. “It was like a time capsule waiting to be opened,” he added.

The finds offer insights on ancient medical practices. The waters were considered curative by “Etruscans, Romans, Christians and Pagans,” Mariotti said. “This was a place of healing, meeting of cultures and medical knowledge.”

Many of the bronzes had inscriptions from the territory of Perugia, about 70 kilometers northeast of San Casciano, a considerable distance to travel more than 2,000 years ago. This shows “how complex and nuanced” cultural interaction was at the time, added Jacopo Tabolli, the scientific director of the dig and co-curator of the Quirinal show.

“Gods changed, but the water remained the same,” he added.

Some of the bronzes are still being restored, but many made it to the Quirinal for the exhibition. In one room, bronzes of arms, feet, ears and other body parts are on display, reflecting the various ailments that were treated at the thermal baths.

“These are unique,” Mariotti said, stopping in front of two bronze plaques showing what he said was a “very accurate” depiction of internal organs. Similar terra-cotta examples existed, he said, but bronze versions were hitherto unknown.

Other statues represented gods and goddesses, but also men, women and small children, wrapped in swaddling cloths. Some were sickly and in need of healing. Others appeared to have benefited from the cures.

The thermal springs are still used today for their therapeutic properties, both in the public baths near the archaeological site and at a private resort.

For San Casciano dei Bagni, a picturesque hilltop town, the ancient finds will hopefully bring new economic prospects, especially after the opening of a new museum in the city center.

Earlier this week, at a property deed transfer in Rome attended by various authorities, the culture ministry formally bought a palazzo in San Casciano dei Bagni from local clerics to house the museum (list price 670,000 euros, around $730,000) and Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, pledged to contribute “additional resources.”

Massimo Osanna, the director of Italy’s state museums said Thursday that he hoped one section of the museum would be ready next year. “I’m an optimist,” he said.

“It’s going to be a tremendous opportunity,” said Agnese Carletti, the town’s mayor. Following on from previous administrations, Carletti’s council championed and funded the local archaeological excavations that led to the finds, offering room and board to archaeology students participating in the summer digs.

A new excavation begins next week, and Tabolli said that it would concentrate on expanding the archaeological site to better understand the context around the sacred pool. “We’ve reconstructed the structure of the sanctuary, but there is still much more to know about the overall site which must have been monumental,” he said.

Osanna said that more surprises could be in store. “We don’t know what else the sanctuary has to offer,” he said.

By Elisabetta Povoledo.