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"CEREALIAIS" THE CELEBRATION OF THE ROMAN GODDESS, "CERES", THE GODDESS OF GRAIN, CEREAL CROPS, GROWING PLANTS AND THE LOVE A MOTHER HAS FOR HER CHILD. HER NAME IS DERIVED FROM THE INDO-EUROPEAN STEM "KER" WHICH MEANS TO "GROW, CAUSE TO GROW", OR "NOURISH". THE CULT OF "CERES" APPEARS TO PRE-DATE 600 BC WHEN SHE WAS MOST LIKELY SEEN AS AN EARTH MOTHER. "CERES" WAS THE DAUGHTER OF "SATURN" AND "CYBELE," THE WIFE OF "JUPITER", AND THE MOTHER OF" PROSERPINA. "ALLEGORICALLY, "PROSERPINA "MAY REPRESENT THE SEED, AND "CERES", THE FERTILITY OF THE EARTH. THE SEED REMAINS CONCEALED UNDER GROUND IN WINTER, BUT IN SUMMER IT BURSTS ITS CONCEALMENT, AND PRODUCES THE THE STALK AND EAR, EXPOSING ITSELF TO THE FACE OF THE SUN.

IT WAS "CERES "WHO FIRST TAUGHT MEN TO PLOW AND SOW, TO REAP AND HOUSE CORN, AND TO MAKE BREAD. SHE IS USUALLY DEPICTED AS CROWNED WITH A GARLAND OF EARS OF CORN AND BEARING IN ONE HAND, A LIGHTED TORCH, AND IN THE OTHER A BUNCH OF POPPIES WHICH WERE ALSO SACRED TO HER. SHE APPEARS AS A COUNTRYWOMAN MOUNTED ON THE BACK OF AN OX. SHE WAS A PEACEFUL GODDESS, AND HER BENEFICENCE TO MANKIND MADE HER WELL-RESPECTED.

THE ROMANS PAID HER GREAT ADORATION AND CELEBRATED HER DURING THE EIGHT DAY FESTIVAL OF "CEREALIA. " ON THIS OCCASION, THE WANDERINGS OF THE GODDESS IN SEARCH OF HER DAUGHTER WERE REPRESENTED BY WOMEN DRESSED IN WHITE WHO RAN ABOUT ABOUT WITH LIGHTED TORCHES. GAMES WERE CELEBRATED IN THE CIRCUS MAXIMUM, THE SPECTATORS OF WHICH APPEARED IN WHITE ROBES. IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, PEOPLE OFFER MILK, HONEY, AND WINE ON THE "CERIALIA", PARTICULARLY ON THE FINAL DAY, AFTER CARRYING THEM THREE TIMES AROUND THE FIELDS.

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