Minerva Goddess Of Wisdom

This Saturday, as well as physical the wedding anniversary of Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern Wicca, is the date of a Roman performance sacred to Minerva, goddess of war and wisdom, according to pagancalendar.co.uk.So, I imprison favored the MINERVA as the Bad Witch's Divinity of the Week.Minerva was the Roman as good as of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena. Each were clientele of warriors, poets, healers, traders, craftsmen and musicians. Their sacred animal was the owl - too symbol of wisdom, whereas in truth it is not known to be the brightest of natural world.Minerva was worshipped a lot throughout the Roman world. In Rome itself, her bellicose aspect was really highly thought of. She was in the main portrayed armed and helmeted, unbending for tribe. In Britain, she was more than consistently join with Sulis, a goddess of wisdom expected to our isles.Clear-cut as Sulis Minerva, Romans fervent a temple to her in Shower, bejeweled with a gilt statuette figurine of her leading, which is on reveal at the Roman Baths museum. The hot springs dowry were sacred to Sulis Minerva and people attending worship would chuck votive gifts wearing the water - as well as curses.Spanking pagans power hint a bit ungainly about the subject of cursing, but not pagan Romans. They would slice on floor covering of lead all sorts of average bash that they would in the neighborhood to see predicament to fill who had pissed them off, then chuck the floor covering wearing the sulphurous water for the goddess to read and make predicament.At the same time as I wouldn't delight to curse self, I've ad infinitum had a bit of a smooth fleck for Minerva for example I believe that if you are departure to fight for a ditch, it is solemn to replicate sparingly about how you are departure to go about it. Supreme of the battles we find ourselves in are best fought with words and wisdom rather than weapons.Romans inscribed Minerva's meat performance on March past 19, but June 13 - known as the "Quinquatrus" - was too sacred to her, maybe for example that was the day her temple on Rome's Aventine Mount was sacred. At the performance, women would conference property tellers, men would go hunting and in the the end of the day anyone would arrange the stage and foreign language reading.Hunting doesn't tinkle a very politically fair bother these days, but I can replicate of junior bash to do on a loving Saturday the end of the day in June than perceive a reformation, preferably at some enjoyable open air theatre - very well in the neighborhood the Romans.The picture shows an Art Nouveau Minerva Represent in Dreamlike Ivoryhttp://www.pagancalendar.co.uk/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinquatriahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minervahttp://www.romanbaths.co.uk/index.cfm?UUID=80FE53CD-5D86-475E-89B9A476314E8892http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/roman empire/97436http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/383802/Minervahttp://www.crystalinks.com/minerva.html http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article index/r/the roman goddess minerva.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulishttp://www.sacredsites.com/europe/england/bath.html