PALES
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V20,
Page 600
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
PALES
, an old See also:Italian goddess of flocks and shepherds
.
The festival called Parilia (less correctly Palilia) was celebrated in her See also:honour at See also:Rome and in the See also:country on the 21st of See also:April
.
In this festival Pales was invoked to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant See also:protection and increase to flocks and herds; the shepherds entreated forgiveness for any unintentional profanation of See also:holy places of which their flocks might have been guilty, and leaped three times across bonfires of See also:hay and See also:straw (See also:Ovid, See also:Fasti, iv
.
731–805)
.
The Parilia was not only a herdsmen's festival, but was regarded as the birthday celebration of Rome, which was supposed to have been founded on the same See also:day
.
Pales plays a very sub-See also:ordinate See also:part in the See also:religion of Rome, even the See also:sex of the divinity being uncertain
.
A male Pales was sometimes spoken of, corresponding in some respects to See also:Pan; the See also:female Pales was associated with See also:Vesta and See also:Anna Perenna
.
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