Pagan Lore, June 30
Day of Aestas. The ancient Roman corn-Goddess of Summer is honored each year on this sacred day. Corn bread is traditionally served at Wiccan gatherings.
This day is sacred to the Pagan and Native American Goddesses Ceres, Changing Woman, Chicomecoatl, the Corn Mothers, Demeter, Gaia, Ge, Hestia, Iatiku, Oraea, Pachamama, Spider Woman, and Tonantzin.
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… if that’s corn as in maize I really, really doubt that there was a roman goddess of it, what with corn not being known in Europe until about the 15th century.
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Not my department to handle. Pagans get yours.AH, yes. Just like the Celtic Potato Goddess. It is so good to know there is a Roman corn Goddess.
Where does this shit come from? Some sort of alternate reality where there was Atlantic trade in the classical era?
An alternate reality where corn meant grain. Oh actually its not an alternate reality, its reality. This is why the free grain given out in Rome to citizens was called the corn dole. Here’s an article on corn dollies which are probably pre-Christian and made of a whole range of not maize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_dolly#Materials_used
I promised myself I wouldn’t say anything because it’s not my department.
Okay but like.
Some of those Goddesses are not Roman, like not even fudge pumpkin slice remotely in the realm of Roman. Like they have their own legends and their own holidays [I assume] which are not based on June 30′s date.
Furthermore, “corn bread” leads me to believe it’s corn bread. As in.
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/cornbread/8990e15c-fc1d-4a8d-b8b3-4b37f45eca49
from corn meal. Decidedly corn-maize based bread.
Not as in bread, as in from any grains that were called corn.
Secondly, on the list of Ceres [The only other Roman Goddess of Grain there?] I can’t remember if GG actually named her or Aestas as one of the alternates name for the British Isle Deity. Iffin member serves Ceres is absent from the list of alternative names of the Great Mother of the British Isles. So. Not sure about this corn bread and if it’s just regular bread.HOLD THE PHONE EVERYONE.
THIS SHIT IS OUT OF BOOK:
It’s literally copypasta’d from the EveryDay Wicca book.
Okay everyone go home. We’re done here.
I was really just commenting on the existence of the Roman corn goddess because I spent a large part of yesterday being told off by Wiccans for appropriating Beltane from them (context - its being revived as a semi secular festival here and was celebrated as a secular holiday for over a thousand years after Christianisation) and am not in the mood for people calling something historically inaccurate while they’re the ones being historically inaccurate.
The rest of the post is historically inaccurate and culturally problematic to say the least and I’m not arguing against that.
I think the problem is specifically that the use of corn bread lead to maize-corn not grain corn. Which now we know is an issue of terminology.
But either way this is copied from text, we shouldn’t have even got to this point, tbh.
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there’s a Roman Corn goddess now too?
Can we add this to casual curses?
“May your cornbread be stale as if it were from ancient Rome!”
Do you think the Roman Corn Goddess and the Celtic Potato Goddess were friends?