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Roman festival of the dead
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parentalia
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In ancient Rome , the Parentalia or dies parentales (, "ancestral days") was a nine-day festival held in honor of family ancestors, beginning February 13. Although the Parentalia was a holiday on the Roman religious calendar , its observances were mainly ...
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Lastly, the same kind of feeling which added Parentalia to Lemuria developed the vague general notion of the Di Manes, not the deified spirits of the dead, but peaceful and on the whole kindly divinities holding sway in the world of dead spirits, yet accessible to the prayers of the living.
The cake of rice and honey borne in the dead hand for Cerberus, the periodical offerings to the ghosts of the departed, as at the festivals called Feralia and Parentalia,41 the pictures of the scenery of the under world, hung in the temples, of which there was a famous one by Polygnotus,42 all imply a literal crediting of the vulgar doctrine.