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Dumézil considers this peculiar feature of Angerona's statue to hint to a prerogative of the goddess which was well known to the Romans, i.e. her will of requesting silence. He remarks silence in a time of cosmic crisis is a well documented point in other religions, giving two instances from
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and the god who kills Fenrir, Viðarr, is defined the "silent Ase": Silence must be associated with his exceptional force and his feat as savior of the world. Angerona too discharges the function of saving the sun in danger, thanks to her silence and the concentration of mystical force it
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and the sun. Then Viðarr defeats Fenrir permitting the rebirth of the world with a female sun, the daughter of the disappeared one. The eschatological crisis in which Fenrir devours the sun is seen as the "Great Winter"
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considers Angerona as the goddess who helps nature and men to sustain successfully the yearly crisis of the winter days. These culminate in the winter solstice, the shortest day, which in Latin is known as
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designates a space of time considered as disgracefully and painfully too short. Angerona and the connected cult guaranteed the overcoming of the unpleasant
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According to ancient authorities, she was a goddess who relieved men from pain and sorrow, or delivered the Romans and their flocks from
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In Vedic religion silence is used in another crisis of the sun, that of the eclipse: When the sun was hidden in the demonic dark,
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can be explained as the pleasure that derives from a fulfilled desire, the achievement of an objective. Thence the description
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took place on December 21 – the day of the winter solstice. On that day the pontiffs offered a sacrifice to the goddess
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was an old Roman goddess, whose name and functions are variously explained. She is sometimes identified with the goddess
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to discharge the function of helping worshipers to overcome a particular time or condition of crisis: instances include
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and a cult to the gods through "nude worship", i.e. with a force from within and no uttered words.
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Goddess who relieves pain and sorrow, prevents angina, protects Rome and its sacred name
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Dumézil pointed out that the Roman goddesses whose name ends with the suffix
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A late antique source suggests the sacred name of the city was Amor,
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does not refer to ‘pleasure’ in the carnal sense of the later word
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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who allows the Roman to wade across war in the best way possible,
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have also been put forward as candidates for the secret name.
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p. 73 F. Jónsson (1931), cited by Dumézil (1977) p. 298.
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Dumézil cites a description of the turn in the year by
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Dumézil (1956) proposes that the association between
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Modern scholars regard Angerona as a goddess akin to
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Index

moth
genus
Angerona (moth)
Angerona, West Virginia

sculptures in the Schönbrunn Garden
Divalia
Roman religion
Feronia
quinsy
Ops
Acca Larentia
Dea Dia
Divalia
Angeronalia
Volupia
Faesulae
Georges Dumézil
Bellona
Orbona
Pellonia
Fessonia
Varro
Volupia
Macrobius
Ovid
Viðarr
Thor
Dusk of the gods
Fenrir

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