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    Mater Matuta was an indigenous Latin goddess, whom the Romans eventually made equivalent to the dawn goddess Aurora and the Greek goddess Eos. She was...
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    connection with the sea, and who in turn was assimilated to the Roman Mater Matuta, a goddess of the morning and of childbirth." Unlike Eos in the Greek...
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    with Mater Matuta. In his relationship to the goddess he takes the place of the king of Veii. Camillus's devotion to female deities Mater Matuta and Fortuna...
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  • December 11 is in correspondence with the Matralia of June 11, dedicated to Mater Matuta, considered the goddess of dawn and, in the ritual, the aunt of the sun...
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  • maior; lover of Venus; one of the Dii Consentes. Greek equivalent-Ares. Mater Matuta, goddess of dawn and childbirth, patroness of mariners. Meditrina, goddess...
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    temple of Mater Matuta was spared a second time. After this, we[who?] hear of this town only in connection with the temple of Mater Matuta. Antonio Nibby...
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    contains altars and the sites of the temple of Fortuna and the temple of Mater Matuta. An earlier archaic-period temple underlies these two, dating itself...
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    Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, Book V, Latin deity Mater Matuta "spreads the rosy morning" (roseam Matuta ... auroram differt), and the author poetically...
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    represent the child's body in its entirety. For example, at the temple of Mater Matuta in Satricum, archaeologists discovered votive models of wombs, figurines...
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    discussion of the Matralia in which Ovid explains the origin of the cult of Mater Matuta who as Ino journeyed to Italy and was made a goddess (473–569). This...
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