Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1928, Page 74

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 23; 1928—PART 7. that this occaslon was observed with|nalia, the greatest of all pagan fes- | business suspended, and every schoolboy | though the entire week was regarded | with the finger tips. Her position in Early Surgery. the greatest faithfulness and reverence | giyals, was instituted. got & holiday. It was & festival which [in a general sense as devoted to the the life of the people was closely con- \ . ected with that d she | T'REP. a b | HE DAY OF SATURN among the Saxons for a very Jong time. | L b TUC e eenfure of the Satur- | looked backward to the Sowing of the | Saturnalla, three festivals were really ¥ot worshiped i the i x m.',‘g,‘:;g’:“:"“‘i“:fi e ‘Although universally worshiped in the | nalia as a festival in historical times | seed and forward to its sprouting, back- | celebrated. The Saturnalia proper, the | him at the west end * th e North, Saturn was nowhere honored as | was the temporary dissolution of the | ward to the shortening days of the old | Opalia, in honor of Ops, wife 'of Saturn | Forum. The statue of Saturn in this enosugge?hes '%?nsw:;‘.:\mméfly:z sv'x:: THE seventh day of the week was, special feast was served in memory of | In Italy. He was a_supergod among | ordinary conditions of society when the | year and forward fo the new light of | and goddess of field labor (from opus, temple was hollow and filled with ol | lage on the Swedish island of Gothland 4" sacred to the divinity of Snl,um.l the naming of Saturday for Saturn. | these people and, in fact, so fiwmflt Jistinetions of rank disappeared or were | a new year. The joys and peculiar | work), and the Sigillaria, in which | to denote the fertility of Latium in| in the Baltic Sea, which thrived during or Seater, as he was known to the | The most important Saxon festival to {hat Tialy itself was often called Satur- | Socrc i Slaves were permitted to | customs of this festival are to & great | sigilla or little earthenware figures were | olives, while symbolic of his skill in|the stone age, Dr. Gustaf Nihlen Saxons, and was called Seater's-Daeg, | the god, however, was the Spring cele- hia. the land of Saturn, Saturnus o | wear the pilleus, the badge of freedom, | extent repeated in the sports of the | exposed for sale and purchased as chil- | vine culture, Saturn held a crooked ' archeologist of Stockholm, has found, or Saturday. Saturn occupied a place | bration, when the people felt it thelr gl ‘meaning power, but reaping | and to sit at the banquet table in their modern Christmas and of the Italian ' dren’s toys. The Opalia was for a very | pruning knife in his hand. The temple | upon examining numerous human of pre-eminence among the deities of | sacred duty to visit one of his temples, | 8s well as sowing belonged to Sfl“'m masters’ clothes while the latter waited | carnival long time coincident’ with the Satur- | itself was used as the treasury of the | skeletons, conclusive proof that experi- olden times and was worshiped through- | invoking the god's watch and care over v(hflse commonest symbol Was the | on them. Al classes devoted them- | Originally the date of the Saturnalia | nalia, the two together lasting five |statc, and many records were deposited | enced physicians eisted sh that b Qut ancient Europe. He was the god | their crops and asking his personal | sickle. Selves to feasting and mirth, presents | was December 19, but with the reform | days, while the sixth and seventh days in it. Neat round holes : were dmm,m?:d 3 of agriculture, to whom the people | blessings throughout the year. One can | Agriculture, vine culture and the rais- | were interchanged among friends, wax | of the calendar by Julius Caesar in 46 | of the celebration were devoted to the | —_—— several skulls, showing that the art of Jooked for the protection of their crop: T anpine what an arduous task | ing of trees are said to be gifts for | tapers being the common offering of | B. C., the festival fell on December 17, | Sigillaria. Users of air transportation in Alaska | operating on the SIaiil as . cure for and for the preservation of the fer-| this must have been, since it was often | mankind which he brought from Greece | the more humble to their superiors, and | a change which brought much confu- In addition to being the protectress b 2 o Siity of the soll. Every Saxon city of | necessary for the peasant class to make | to Ttaly. ' His reign was that “golden | crowds thronged the, streets, shouting, (sion. As a compromise the Saturnalia | of agriculture, Ops was also the god- | calculate that journeys which, by other c;;“;pe“r‘;tgx f;;g;‘“r;rylgfgr*l‘:sfll 391:5 or drills were used, and it appears that in ‘the ‘majority of cases the patient survived. 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