. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . y the Fauns of the rocks, was in its origin proper tosuch sacred hymns as those of the Salii and the Arvalian brothers,which latter Marini thought were embraced by the general termcarmina Saliaria. As to the bucklers, there is room for much doubt about theiractual form. Lanzi^ gives a drawing of three or five, which lookbean-shaped carried on a pole by slaves, from a Florentine gem, 1 .g., Salve radix, salve porta, Ex qua mundo lux est god of gods, the divum dius here adored, is said to be Janus,
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . y the Fauns of the rocks, was in its origin proper tosuch sacred hymns as those of the Salii and the Arvalian brothers,which latter Marini thought were embraced by the general termcarmina Saliaria. As to the bucklers, there is room for much doubt about theiractual form. Lanzi^ gives a drawing of three or five, which lookbean-shaped carried on a pole by slaves, from a Florentine gem, 1 .g., Salve radix, salve porta, Ex qua mundo lux est god of gods, the divum dius here adored, is said to be Janus, whom the Saliicalled Janes or Eanus, calling themselves too after him, Janes or Eani. The fratres^rvales also had a common formula : Jano patri Arietes II (? to Janus, second cf theMars-ian fathers) which was attributed to the Salii as well. (Vossius : Inst. Oral, iv, i,7 ; Marini : Atti, &c. ii, 366, ?86.) See also what is said on Janus. 2 Wallis Budges Babyl. Life and Hist. 131. ^ Atti, &c. 11, • Sa^gio, II, iv, I. See also Guhl and Koner : La Vie Antique, ii, 7i6 The Night of the Gods. {Dancing. which is here retraced. But this scarcely accords with a silverdenarius (which I also sketch) struck under Augustus.^ In thelatter the ancilia have some resemblance to zodiacsjoined by an oval piece which bears the hand andarm rings. In the centre we have the apex head-dress. As to the motto P. Stolo III Vir, Stolowas a surname in the gens Licinia. The description given by Festus is tantalizing : E coelo cecidisse fertur Ancile, id est scutumbreve, quod ideo sic appellatum-est quia ex utroquelatere erat recisum, ut summum infimumque ejuslatus medio pateret. Festus p. 131 (ed. Miill.) Creuzer conjectured that the bucklers may well have had anastronomical and calendaric sense ; and Johannes Laurentius Lydiaseems to have made this certain by saying that the twelve Salii ofNuma celebrated Janus after the number of the Italic months.^The tunics of the anciliae-bearers or slav
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