capite velato*, and recites these words:}
HIC ET NVNC IVNO MEA
{she touches her forehead with her right hand, and continues:}
PRAESENS EST IN ME
{She again touches her breast with her right hand, and says:}
SUB SPECIE VENERIS**
SALVE VENVS:**
{She performs the Adoratio***, and continues:}
TE PRECOR QUAESOQVE
VTI DIES MIHI
{touching breast)
PROPITIA.
ET TIBI OFFERO HOC VINUM ET HOC THVS:
{The supplicant offers now wine in libation into a little patera,
ITA EST! ILLICET.
{The rite is ended}
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Nota Bene: *capite velato: with the head veiled
** In this prayer one's Iuno is first addressed in the Latin genitive case.
Each woman has her own Iuno, but this Iuno is not so much the invisible
One's Iuno is to be chosen in meditation, ideally as an inner realization
This offering prayer is also performed on a daily basis among regular
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The first way consists of stretching out the right arm and hand straight ahead of you (similar to the Fascist salute) towards a statue or picture of the deity and then immediately bringing the hand back to then kiss the fingertips of that right hand, and then thrust the hand and arm back out again towards the deity. Then as you do so you wave that arm and hand back and forth (left to right), twisting your body left and right as well in union with the arm. If you happen to be praying at an altar or the Lararium you should be grasping the altar with your left hand as you make the adoratio with your right arm and hand! The second adoratio can be simply performed by repeating the first gesture, EXCEPT when after the salute part and you bring the hand back you join the index finger and thumb together to make a hole or circle and kiss the tips of the index finger and thumb and then thrust out your arm and hand as you blow the kiss. Then you wave the arm and hand, twisting as before. In relation to any Roman act of prayer, especially at the Lararium, it is NECESSARY that one grasp or touches the altar as you pray for any prayer or sacrifice to be valid! This is according to our Mos Maiorum in order to create a proper link and contact with the Numina!
VALETE! |
We thank Gaius Iulius Iulianus for providing this Rite.
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