I was high priest, augur, one of the Fifteen for the performance of rites, one of the Seven of the sacred feasts, brother of Arvis, fellow of Titus, and Fetial.
Now we're supposed to have the once-sacred feast gobbled up in time for friends and family to push back their chairs and jump in the minivan to hit the sales?
First among equals, as is true more often than not regarding matters culinary, is Italy, where there are so many feasts, sacred and not, lighting up the skies that every day somebody is celebrating somewhere.
Similar figures, bearing baskets on their heads, are called canephores (from kanēphoroi, "basket carriers"); they represent the maidens who carried sacred objects used at feasts of the gods.
Many other familial feasts (for the sacred children, for the poor, for particular ancestors) as well as initiations and funerary rituals occur throughout the year.
Members of the royal families of the U.K., Denmark, Monaco, Japan, and Thailand visited Tonga for the $3 million event, which featured a military parade, formal balls, a fireworks display, an international rugby match, a series of feasts, and a sacred kava festival.
Our Lady of Guadalupe inhabits a revered place in Mexican identity, and her feast day is a sacred occasion.
(Only the chickens and rats survived; the chicken replaced the pig as the sacred animal for ritual offerings and feasts).
Because such days or periods generally originated in religious celebrations or ritual commemorations that usually included sacred community meals, they are called feasts or festivals.
