Juno februata biography examples in urdu

Log In. Juno Februtis is an aspect of that great Roman Goddess as a purifier and fertility Goddess, who was especially connected with the month of February and the festivities in its latter half. She would seem to be related to Juno Lucina as a childbirth Goddess. February was the month of purification to the Romans because in their early calendar it was the last month of the year and so considered an appropriate time to get rid of the bad, stale, or unclean in preparation for the new year.

The references to Juno Februtis are few, however, and much of the information about Her would seem to be of more recent derivation.

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February takes its name from the Latin februa, meaning "religious purification" and so means "the month of purification" or "the cleansing month" referring to the numerous festivals of that theme held then, especially the Lupercalia. In the early days of the lunar calendar, March, as the month when spring takes hold, had been thought of as the first month of the year; and so many holidays in the last half the waning half of February centered around the theme of endings, including the Terminalia on the 23rd, honoring Terminus, the God of boundary stones.

The 23rd for whatever reason had a ritual significance as the last day of the year, even though the month mostly held 28 days; in a lunar calendar the months are aligned with the moon phases, but since the lunar cycle fits real imprecisely into the solar one it is off by 11 days , every other year or so, depending on the system, an entire extra month is added to keep it more or less in synch, and the Terminalia had been the traditional time for doing so.

The Lupercalia, held on the 15th, was a very ancient and very popular holiday that included rituals to purify the city of Rome and bring fertility to it. The celebrations were centered on the Palatine Hill, where the twins Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, were said to have originally settled.

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On this day a goat or goats and a dog were sacrificed. From the skin of the goats were made loincloths, which were the only clothing worn by certain groups of young men who ran the bounds of the city carrying whips, also made from the sacrificed goats' skin; with these they hit the people they came across. This act was thought to not only drive away the bad but also to draw in the good in the form of fertility for the people and the city in general, and it is said that women hoping to get pregnant or looking for an easy time in childbirth would deliberately put themselves in their way so they could be hit.

Plutarch, who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, when the Lupercalia was in full swing, said that because the Lupercalia was so heavily involved with purification the day was called februata or dies februata "the day of purification". Incidentally in the same passage he mentions a Greek ritual of purification called periskylakismos, in which the person to be purified was rubbed all over with puppies, apparently because puppies absorb bad vibes.

Though he doesn't say so the unlucky little guys were probably thought of as scapegoats and sacrificed later to Hekate or somesuch, which is no good at all, no sir! But I don't see why periskylakismos couldn't be revived in a more modern form without the sacrifice.