Dea Dia
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In Roman mythology
, Dea Dia is the goddess of growth. She was sometimes identified with Ceres, and sometimes with the equivalent Greek
goddess Demeter
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She was worshiped during Ambarvalia
, a festival to Ceres. Every May, her priests, the Fratres Arvales, held a three day festival in her honor.
Roman mythology
Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans...
, Dea Dia is the goddess of growth. She was sometimes identified with Ceres, and sometimes with the equivalent Greek
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
goddess Demeter
Demeter
In Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, and the seasons . Her common surnames are Sito as the giver of food or corn/grain and Thesmophoros as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society...
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She was worshiped during Ambarvalia
Ambarvalia
Ambarvalia was a Roman agricultural fertility riteheld at the end of May in honor 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 supposed to have taken its name, ambio, I go...
, a festival to Ceres. Every May, her priests, the Fratres Arvales, held a three day festival in her honor.