- Navigium Isidis
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The Navigium Isidis or Isidis Navigium (trans. the vessel of Isis[1]) was an annual ancient Roman religious festival in honor of the goddess Isis.[2] The festival outlived Christian persecution by Theodosius (391) and Arcadius' persecution against the Roman religion.[3]
In the Roman Empire, it was still celebrated in Italy at least until the year 416.[4] In Egypt, it was suppressed by Christian authorities in the 6th century.[4]
Modern carnival resembles the festival of the Navigium Isidis,[1] and some scholars argue that they share the same origin.[5][6][7][8][9]
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References
- Alföldi, Andreas (1937) A Festival of Isis in Rome under the Christian Emperors of the IVth Century, Budapest
- Forrest, M. Isidora (2001) Isis magic: cultivating a relationship with the goddess of 10,000 names
- Griffiths, J. Gwyn (1975) The Isis-book: Metamorphoses, Book 11, chapter Commentary pp.111-346
- di Cocco, Giampaolo (2007) Alle origini del Carnevale: Mysteria isiaci e miti cattolici (Florence: Pontecorboli)
- Haase, Wolfgang and Temporini, Hildegard (1986) Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Volume 16, Part 3
- Rudwin, Maximilian J. (1919) The Origin of the German Carnival Comedy in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jul., 1919), pp. 402-454
- Valantasis, Richard (2000) Religions of late antiquity in practice
Further reading
- Brady, Thomas A. (1938) Reviewed work(s): A Festival of Isis in Rome under the Christian Emperors of the Fourth Century by Andrew Alföldi, in The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 28, Part 1 (1938), pp. 88-90
- Rademacher, Carl (1932) Carnival in Hastings ERE 3, pp.225-9
Categories:- Ancient Roman religion
- Hellenistic Egyptian deities
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