Navigium Isidis

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Procession in Honor of Isis (1902), the Navigium Isidis as illustrated by Frederick Arthur Bridgman

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] held on March 5.[3] The festival outlived Christian persecution by Theodosius (391) and Arcadius' persecution against the Roman religion.[4]

In the Roman Empire, it was still celebrated in Italy at least until the year 416.[5] In Egypt, it was suppressed by Christian authorities in the 6th century.[5]

Modern carnival resembles the festival of the Navigium Isidis,[1] and some scholars argue that they share the same origin (via carrus navalis - meaning naval wagon, ie. float - later becoming car-nival).[6][7][8][9][10] Many elements of Carnival were in turn appropriated in the Corpus Christi festival, most prominently in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).[11]

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Valantasis (2000) p.378
  2. ↑ Haase and Temporini (1986) p.1931
  3. ↑ Michele Renee Salzman, On Roman Time: The Codex Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 1990), p. 124.
  4. ↑ Alföldi (1937) p.47
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Valantasis (2000) p.370
  6. ↑ Rudwin (1919)
  7. ↑ di Cocco (2007)
  8. ↑ Alföldi (1937) pp.57-8
  9. ↑ Forrest (2001) p.114
  10. ↑ Griffiths (1975) p.172
  11. ↑ Ruiz, Teofilo F. (2012) A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain, ch.8, pp.359-ff

References

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
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