Hail Janus Curiatus!
Hail Juno Sororia!
Hail Fides!
Hail Honos!
Hail Jupiter Tigillus!
Hail Mars!
Hail Quirinus!
Today we declare our faith and honour honour himself.
We ask for expiation from our wrong-doings
And seek to live in honour to the beauty of nature
And in gratitude to the harvest we enjoy of life!
We also on this day make oath to the unity of our community.
We further honour the lord who supports our world.
Salve Iane Curiate!
Salve Iuno Sororia!
Salve Fides!
Salve Honos!
Salve Iuppiter Tigille!
Salve Marte!
Salve Quirine!

 

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The Kalends of October are an important and nefastus commemoration in the Roman festal calendar. There are expiation rites conducted by passing under a beam, the tigillum sororium, the ‘sister’s beam’, perhaps a representation of the axis mundi. In Rome, this appeared as a small connecting-beam across a narrow street ad compitum Acili. The legend attached to the rite includes the triplet Horatii, the triplet Curiatii and a sister of Horatii, but these could be emblematic of the di indigites, namely, Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus, Janus, Saturnus, Consus and the terra mater.  In a further rite of the day, the flamen Dialis, the flamen Martialis and the flamen Quirinalis, the respective priests of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus, come to the Capitol in a covered wagon and, with the fingers of their right hands wrapped in white bands, sacrifice to Fides to commemorate the oath of unification.