Amburbia — An amburbial sacrifice, also known as amburbia or amburbale sacrum, was an ancient Roman religious festival, wherein participants made processions around their city with the beast to be sacrificed.The word is composed of ambio ( I go around ), or … Wikipedia
Ambarvalia — was a Roman agricultural fertility rite held at the end of May in honour of Ceres.At these festivals they sacrificed a bull, a sow, and a sheep, which, before the sacrifice, were led in procession thrice around the fields; whence the feast is… … Wikipedia
LUSTRATIO — Graece Καθαρισμός, inter Initiorum cerimonias maxime necessarias habebatur olim, quam Orpheus ab Aegyptiis acceptam Graecis tradidisse legitur, apud Diod. Sic. l. 4. regnante Athenis Pandione, Cecropis filio, in Epochis Marmor. postquam Sacra… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
Suovetaurilia — так называлось у древних римлян принесение в жертву свиньи (sus), овцы (ovis) и вола (taurus) с целью очищения (lustratio). Этот обряд принадлежал к числу древнейших. Три названных животных (самые главные в обиходе италийского земледельца)… … Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона