Carmentalia

[shanmonster]

I'm going to be out of town this week, so my observances of the Roman holidays will likely grind to a stand-still for the time being. However, today is the first day of Carmentalia, a festival celebrated primarily by women and devoted to Carmenta, goddess of childbirth and prophecy.

I prophesy I shall never give birth, except in character.

It was forbidden to wear leather or other forms of dead skin in her temple, so I have taken off my watch, which has some leather detailing.

Pictures of Carmenta are exceedingly difficult to find, and the one I've included seems to show a scene from the Lupercalia, which, as you can see, is a pretty exciting holiday.

If I can find some hunky young men wielding whips while wearing blood and dead sheep, I think I will have one hell of a party.