@civilwarbore It was part of a Roman festival called the Lemuria in May when angry spirits entered the home. It was a way to placate them.
@civilwarbore yes exactly, I thought that was so interesting. The gendered landscape, in the words of Lisa Bitel
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@AdmiralHip to be fair the land brings forth crops from her body, which would easily correlate to the feminine back then. -
@civilwarbore yeah, that was probably it. Outside writers like to say that paganism and wilderness was feminine, in a bad way
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