A Wisdom Archive on Lemures

In Roman religion, the Feast of the Lemures, called the Lemuralia or Lemuria, was a feast during which the ancient Romans performed rites to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes. The unwholesome and malevolent specters of the restless dead (lemures) were propitiated with offerings of beans. On those days, the Vestals would prepare sacred mola salsa (salt cake) from the first ears of wheat of the season. Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta ... Including:

• Feast of the Lemures - Sources

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Jupiter Mars Quirinus Vesta Juno Fortuna Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Lares The Flamens Penates Genius Manes Larvae Lemures Terminus Lares (pl.) (also called ... Including:

• Lares - House spirits in other cultures

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Microcebus Mirza Allocebus Phaner Cheirogaleidae is the family strepsirrhine primates that contains the various dwarf and mouse lemurs. Like all other lemurs, cheirogaleids live exclusively on the island of Madagascar. This is the only family in the Cheirogaleoidea superfamily. Cheirogaleids are smaller than the other lemurs and, in fact, they are the smallest primates. They have a soft, long fur colored grey-brown to reddish on top with a generally brighter und ... Including:

• Cheirogaleidae - Classification

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Godinotia Adapis Adapoides Leptadapis others The adapids, members of the extinct family Adapidae, are prosimian primates that lived during the Eocene epoch. Adapids are believed to have been generally lemur-like, and are considered by many to be the probable ancestors of modern lemurs and lorises. See also. Omomyidae ...

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In Roman mythology, the Di Penates or briefly Penates were originally patron gods (really geniuses) of the storeroom, later becoming household gods guarding the entire household. They were related to the Lares, Genii and Larvae. Category: Roman mythology Other related archivesCeres, Flamens, Fortuna, Genii, Genius, Juno, Jupiter, Lares, Larvae, Lemures, Manes, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Quirinus, Roman mythology, Terminus, Venus, Vesta, Vulca

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Lemuria may refer to: In Roman religion Lemuria is the Feast of the Lemures, during which the unwholesome and malevolent spectres of the restless dead (lemures) were propitiated. Lemuria is the name given by 19th century geologist Philip Sclater to a hypothetical land mass in the Indian Ocean that was required, before the understanding of plate tectonics, to account for similarities between fauna in India and Madagascar. The name derived from the lemurs that are endemic to Madagascar, who received their na

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