![]() ![]() "Roman Festivals and Their Significance". Rape or romance? : sexual violence and the lust for power in Ovid's Fasti (rmaster thesis). Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature. The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner. Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia. The Ancient Roman Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead. Plutarch, who describes Tacita as a Muse, states that Numa Pompilius credited Tacita for his oracular insight and taught the Romans to worship her. Goddesses Mutae Tacitae were invoked to destroy a hated person: in an inscription from Cambodunum in Raetia, someone asks "ut mutus sit Quartus" and "erret fugiens ut mus" ("that Quartus be mute" and that he "wander, fleeing, like a mouse"). ![]() In this guise, Dea Tacita was worshipped at a festival called Larentalia on 23 December. Jupiter was angry with her because she told the nymph Juturna to flee from him because he planned to rape her. According to Ovid this occurred because Dea Tacita had her tongue ripped off by Jupiter. Dea Tacita is the same as the naiad Larunda. Ovid's Fasti includes a passage describing a rite propitiating Dea Tacita in order to "seal up hostile mouths / and unfriendly tongue" at Feralia on 21 February. In Roman mythology, Dea Tacita ("the silent goddess") also known as Dea Muta or Muta Tacita was a goddess of the dead. ![]()
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