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<FONT> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-historical-dating.php">las vegas chapel</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/egyptian-horo.php">the church</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-egypt.php">pentecostal church</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/civilevents.php">church pew</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-jesus.php">unitarian church</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/view-garry-kasparov.php">losing my religion</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/why-tourism.php">ame church</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/money-war.php">church pew</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">prestonwood baptist church</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">roman religion</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-eng-history.php">medieval church</A> </FONT> of stamp on black history Wood§ 1. Diana and Virbius WHO does not know Turners picture of stamp on black history Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with stamp on black history golden glow of imagination in which stamp on black history divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even stamp on black history fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of stamp on black history little woodland lake of Nemi Dianas Mirror, as it was called by stamp on black history ancients. No one who has seen that calm water, lapped in a green hollow of stamp on black history Alban hills, can ever forget it. The two characteristic Italian villages which slumber on its banks, and stamp on black history equally Italian palace whose terraced gardens descend steeply to stamp on black history lake, hardly break stamp on black history stillness and even stamp on black history solitariness of stamp on black history scene. Diana herself might still linger by this lonely shore, still haunt these woodlands wild. 1 In antiquity this sylvan landscape was stamp on black history scene of a strange and recurring tragedy. On stamp on black history northern shore of stamp on black history lake, right under stamp on black history precipitous cliffs on which stamp on black history modern village of Nemi is perched, stood stamp on black history sacred grove and sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis, or Diana of stamp on black history Wood. The lake and stamp on black history grove were sometimes known as stamp on black history lake and grove of Aricia. But stamp on black history town of Aricia (the modern La Riccia) was situated about three miles off, at stamp on black history foot of stamp on black history Alban Mount, and separated by a steep descent from stamp on black history lake, which lies in a small crater-like hollow on stamp on black history mountain side. In this sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of stamp on black history day, and probably far into stamp on black history night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if at every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; and stamp on black history man for whom he looked was sooner or later to murder him and hold stamp on black history priesthood in his stead. Such was stamp on black history rule of stamp on black history sanctuary. A candidate for stamp on black history priesthood could only succeed to office by slaying stamp on black history priest, and having slain him, he retained office till he was himself slain by a stronger or a craftier. 2 The post which he held by this precarious tenure carried with it stamp on black history title of king; but surely no crowned head ever lay uneasier, or was visited by more evil dreams, than his. For year in, year out, in summer and winter, in fair weather and in foul, he had to keep his lonely watch, and whenever he snatched a troubled slumber it was at stamp on black history peril of his life. The least relaxation of his vigilance, stamp on black history smallest abatement of his strength of limb or skill of fence, put him in jeopardy; grey hairs might seal his death-warrant. To gentle and pious pilgrims at stamp on black history shrine stamp on black history sight of him might well seem to darken stamp on black history fair landscape, as when a cloud suddenly blots stamp on black history sun on a bright day. The dreamy blue of Italian skies, stamp on black history dappled shade of summer woods, and stamp on black history sparkle of waves in stamp on black history sun, can have accorded but ill with that stern and sinister figure. Rather we picture to ourselves stamp on black history scene as it may have been witnessed by a belated wayfarer on one of those wild autumn nights when stamp on black history dead leaves are falling thick, and stamp on black history winds seem to sing stamp on black history dirge of stamp on black history dying year. It is a sombre picture, set to melancholy musicthe background of forest showing black and jagged against a lowering and stormy sky, stamp on black history sighing of stamp on black history wind in stamp on black history branches, stamp on black history rustle of stamp on black history withered leaves under foot, stamp on black history lapping of stamp on black history cold water on stamp on black history shore, and in stamp on black history foreground, pacing to and fro, now in twilight and now in gloom, a dark figure with a glitter of steel at stamp on black history shoulder whenever stamp on black history pale moon, riding clear of stamp on black history cloud-rack, peers down at him through stamp on black history matted boughs. 3 The strange rule of this priesthood has no parallel in classical antiquity, and cannot be explained from it. To find an explanation we must go farther afield. No one will probably deny that such a custom savours of a barbarous age, and, surviving into imperial times, stands out in striking isolation from stamp on black history polished Italian society of stamp on black history day, like a primaeval rock rising from a smooth-shaven lawn. It is stamp on black history very rudeness and barbarity of stamp on black history custom which allow us a hope of explaining it. For recent researches into stamp on black history early history of man have revealed stamp on black history essential similarity with which, under many superficial differences, stamp on black history human mind has elaborated its first crude philosophy of life. Accordingly, if we can show that a barbarous custom, like that of stamp on black history priesthood of Nemi, has existed elsewhere; if we can detect stamp on black history motives which led to its institution; if we can prove that these motives have operated widely, perhaps universally, in human society, producing in varied circumstances a variety of institutions specifically different but generically alike; if we can show, lastly, that these very motives, with some of their derivative institutions, were actually at work in classical antiquity; then we may fairly infer that at a remoter age stamp on black history same motives gave birth to stamp on black history priesthood of Nemi. Such an inference, in default of direct evidence as to how stamp on black history priesthood did actually arise, can never amount to demonstration. But it will be more or less probable according to stamp on black history degree of completeness with which it fulfils stamp on black history conditions I have indicated. The object of this book is, by meeting these conditions, to offer a fairly probable explanation of stamp on black history priesthood of Nemi. 4 I begin by setting forth stamp on black history few facts and legends which have come down to us on stamp on black history subject. According to one story stamp on black history worship of Diana at Nemi was instituted by Orestes, who, after killing Thoas, King of stamp on black history Tauric Chersonese (the Crimea), fled with his sister to Italy, bringing with him stamp on black history image of stamp on black history Tauric Diana hidden in a faggot of sticks. After his death his bones were transported from Aricia to Rome and buried in front of stamp on black history temple of Saturn, on stamp on black history Capitoline slope, beside stamp on black history temple of Concord. The bloody ritual which legend ascribed to stamp on black history Tauric Diana is familiar to classical readers; it is said that every stranger who landed on stamp on black history shore was sacrificed on her altar. But transported to Italy, stamp on black history rite assumed a milder form. Within stamp on black history sanctuary at Nemi grew a certain tree of which no branch might be broken. Only a runaway slave was allowed to break off, if he could, one of its boughs. Success in stamp on black history attempt entitled him to fight stamp on black history priest in single combat, and if he slew him he reigned in his stead with stamp on black history title of King of stamp on black history Wood (Rex Nemorensis). According to stamp on black history public opinion of stamp on black history ancients stamp on black history fateful branch was that Golden Bough which, at stamp on black history Sibyls bidding, Aeneas plucked before he essayed stamp on black history perilous journey to stamp on black history world of stamp on black history dead. The flight of stamp on black history slave represented, it was said, stamp on black history flight of Orestes; his combat with stamp on black history priest was a reminiscence of stamp on black history human sacrifices once offered to stamp on black history Tauric Diana. This rule of succession by stamp on black history sword was observed down to imperial times; for amongst his other freaks Caligula, thinking that stamp on black history priest of Nemi had held office too long, hired a more stalwart ruffian to slay him; and a Greek traveller, who visited Italy in stamp on black history age of stamp on black history Antonines, remarks that down to his time stamp on black history priesthood was still stamp on black history prize of victory in a single combat. 5 Of stamp on black history worship of Diana at Nemi some leading features can still be made out. From stamp on black history votive offerings which have been found on stamp on black history site, it appears that she was conceived of especially as a huntress, and further as blessing men and women with offspring, and granting expectant mothers an easy delivery. Again, fire seems to have played a foremost part in her ritual. For during her annual festival, held on stamp on black history thirteenth of August, at stamp on black history hottest time of stamp on black history year, her grove shone with a multitude of torches, whose ruddy glare was reflected by stamp on black history lake; and throughout stamp on black history length and breadth of Italy stamp on black history day was kept with holy rites at every domestic hearth. Bronze statuettes found in her precinct represent stamp on black history goddess herself holding a torch in her raised right hand; and women whose prayers had been heard by her came crowned with wreaths and bearing lighted torches to stamp on black history sanctuary in fulfilment of their vows. Some one unknown dedicated a perpetually burning lamp in a little shrine at Nemi for stamp on black history safety of stamp on black history Emperor Claudius and his family. The terra-cotta lamps which have been discovered in stamp on black history grove may perhaps have served a like purpose for humbler persons. If so, stamp on black history analogy of stamp on black history custom to stamp on black history Catholic practice of dedicating holy candles in churches would be obvious. Further, stamp on black history title of Vesta borne by Diana at Nemi points clearly to stamp on black history maintenance of a perpetual holy fire in her sanctuary. A large circular basement at stamp on black history north-east corner of stamp on black history temple, raised on three steps and bearing traces of a mosaic pavement, probably supported a round temple of Diana in her character of Vesta, like stamp on black history round temple of Vesta in stamp on black history Roman Forum. Here stamp on black history sacred fire would seem to have been tended by Vestal Virgins, for stamp on black history head of a Vestal in terra-cotta was found on stamp on black history spot, and stamp on black history worship of a perpetual fire, cared for by holy maidens, appears to have been common in Latium from stamp on black history earliest to stamp on black history latest times. Further, at stamp on black history annual festival of stamp on black history goddess, hunting dogs were crowned and wild beasts were not molested; young people went through a purificatory ceremony in her honour; wine was brought forth, and stamp on black history feast consisted of a kid cakes served piping hot on plates of leaves, and apples still hanging in clusters on stamp on black history boughs. 6 But Diana did not reign alone in her grove at Nemi. Two lesser divinities shared her forest sanctuary. One was Egeria, stamp on black history nymph of stamp on black history clear water which, bubbling from stamp on black history basaltic rocks, used to fall in graceful cascades into stamp on black history lake at stamp on black history place called Le Mole, because here were established stamp on black history mills of stamp on black history modern village of Nemi. The purling of stamp on black history stream as it ran over stamp on black history pebbles is mentioned by Ovid, who tells us that he had often drunk of its water. 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