April 20, 2019

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   Parilia

   
   

   20 April 2010 06:00 PM

   This event began 04/20/2010 and repeats every year until 04/20/2020

   
   

   In ancient Roman religion, the Parilia is an agricultural festival performed annually on April 21, aimed at cleansing both sheep and shepherd. It is carried out in acknowledgment to the Roman deity Pales, a god of shepherds and sheep of uncertain gender.[1] While the festival seems to have originated before the founding of Rome in 753 BCE, most references note a distinction between the rural and urban forms, illustrating the combination of the ceremony with other aspects of Roman religion in the urban setting. The Parilia is described in Ovid's Fasti, an elegiac poem on the religious calendar of ancient Rome.
    
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