# Furrinalia

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{{Short description|Roman festival}}
In [ancient Roman religion](/source/Religion_in_ancient_Rome), the '''Furrinalia''' (or '''Furinalia''') was an annual [festival](/source/Roman_festivals) held on 25 July to celebrate the rites ''([sacra](/source/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion))'' of the goddess [Furrina](/source/Furrina). [Varro](/source/Varro) notes that the festival was a public holiday ''([feriae publicae dies](/source/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion))''. Both the festival and the goddess had become obscure<ref>[Varro](/source/Varro), ''De lingua latina'' 5.84.</ref> even to the Romans of the [Late Republic](/source/Roman_Republic); Varro (mid-1st century BC) notes that few people in his day even know her name.<ref>''Nunc vix nomen notum paucis'': Varro, ''De lingua latina'' 6.19.</ref> One of the fifteen ''[flamines](/source/flamen)'' (high priests of official cult) was assigned to her, indicating her archaic stature,<ref>Varro, ''De lingua latina'' 6.19: ''cuius deae honos apud antiquos, nam ei sacra instituta annua et flamen attributus''.</ref> and she had a [sacred grove](/source/sacred_grove) ''([lucus](/source/lucus))'' on the [Janiculum](/source/Janiculum), which may have been the location of the festival.<ref>[Ken Dowden](/source/Ken_Dowden), ''European Paganism: The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages'' (Routledge, 2000), p. 239.</ref> Furrina was associated with water, and the Furrinalia follows the [Lucaria](/source/Lucaria) (Festival of the Grove) on 19 and 21 July and the [Neptunalia](/source/Neptunalia) on 23 July, a grouping that may reflect a concern for summer drought.<ref>Robert Schilling, "Neptune," ''Roman and European Mythologies'' (University of Chicago Press, 1992, from the French edition of 1981), p. 138. This was the earlier view of [Georg Wissowa](/source/Georg_Wissowa).</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Lucus_Furrinae.html Lucus Furrinae] entry in ''[Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome](/source/Platner's_Topographical_Dictionary_of_Ancient_Rome)''

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Category:Ancient Roman festivals
Category:July observances
Category:Summer holidays (Northern Hemisphere)
 

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