Furrina
Roman · deity · regal · Recorded classification
Furrina is the best illustration in Roman religion of ritual outliving meaning. Her cult was old enough that she had one of the fifteen flamens, a priesthood reserved for the most ancient gods, and her festival was still being kept on 25 July in the late Republic — by which time, as Varro's generation admitted, nobody could say what she was for. Modern reading makes her a goddess of springs, from a name connected with moving water. Her grove on the Janiculum is remembered chiefly because Gaius Gracchus died in it.
Domains
- springs
Sources
- Furrina is an archaic Roman goddess of springs, one of the fifteen deities served by their own flamen, whose festival the Furrinalia was still kept on 25 July after her function had been forgotten.: Reference treatment of Furrina, the antiquity of her cult, the flamen Furrinalis and the Furrinalia. (secondary)