Fontus or Fons ( pl. : Fontes , "Font" or "Source") was a god of wells and springs in ancient Roman religion . A religious festival called the Fontinalia was held on October 13 in his honor. Throughout the city, fountains and wellheads were adorned with garlands.
10-517: Fontus was the son of Juturna and Janus . Numa Pompilius , second king of Rome , was supposed to have been buried near the altar of Fontus ( ara Fontis) on the Janiculum . William Warde Fowler observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons, and the Tempestates , all having to do with sources of water. As a god of pure water, Fons can be placed in opposition to Liber as
20-558: A god of wine identified with Bacchus . An inscription includes Fons among a series of deities who received expiatory sacrifices by the Arval Brothers in 224 AD, when several trees in the sacred grove of Dea Dia , their chief deity, had been struck by lightning and burnt. Fons received two wethers . Fons was not among the deities depicted on coinage of the Roman Republic . The gens Fonteia claimed to be Fontus' descendants. In
30-522: Is 1.9 ha. The lake is separated from sea by a 40 to 57 m wide strip of land, and drains by way of a 260 m long stream flowing into the sea west of Rish Point. It is surmounted by Ritli Hill on the east. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers . The feature is named after Juturna , a Roman deity of springs and streams, daughter of Volturnus . Juturna Lake is centred at 62°40′14″S 60°55′37.5″W / 62.67056°S 60.927083°W / -62.67056; -60.927083 , which
40-473: Is named after the deity. Juturna In the myth and religion of ancient Rome , Juturna , or Diuturna, was a goddess of fountains, wells and springs , and the mother of Fontus by Janus . Juturna was an ancient Latin deity of fountains, who in some myths was turned by Jupiter into a water nymph – a Naiad – and given by him a sacred well in Lavinium , Latium , as well as another one near
50-491: Is named after the deity. Juturna Lake Juturna Lake ( Bulgarian : езеро Ютурна , romanized : ezero Yuturna , IPA: [ˈɛzɛro juˈturnɐ] ) is the roughly triangular lake extending 220 m in west-east direction and 150 m in north-south direction at the east extremity of South Beaches on Byers Peninsula , Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands , Antarctica . Its surface area
60-555: The cosmological schema of Martianus Capella , Fons is located in the second of 16 celestial regions, with Jupiter , Quirinus , Mars , the Military Lar , Juno , Lympha , and the Novensiles . Water as a source of regeneration played a role in the Mithraic mysteries , and inscriptions to Fons Perennis ("Eternal Spring" or "Never-Failing Stream") have been found in mithraea . In one of
70-507: The fountain/well next to the lake in the Roman forum. It was here in Roman legend that the deities Castor and Pollux watered their horses after bringing news of the Roman victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 496 BC (Valerius Maximus, I.8.1; Plutarch, Life of Aemilius Paulus, 25.2, Life of Coriolanus, 3.4). A temple was erected in her honour after the first Punic war . Holloway has argued that
80-574: The goddess shown carrying a winged helmet on early Roman coinage is Juturna, but her iconography is largely unknown. A later altar relief from the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum may depict her. A Roman festival was held in her honor on January 11, when she was given sacrifices and honored by the fontani (the men who maintained the fountains and aqueducts of Rome). Juturna Lake in Antarctica
90-516: The scenes of the Mithraic cycle, the god strikes a rock, which then gushes water. A Mithraic text explains that the stream was a source of life-giving water and immortal refreshment. Dedications to "inanimate entities" from Mithraic narrative ritual, such as Fons Perennis and Petra Genetrix ("Generative Rock"), treat them as divine and capable of hearing, like the nymphs and healing powers to whom these are more often made. Fontus Lake in Antarctica
100-588: The temple to Vesta in the Forum Romanum . Her original home was said to be on the mythological river Numicius . The pool next to the second well was called Lacus Juturnae . A local water nymph or river-god generally presides over a single body of water, but Juturna has broader powers which probably reflect her original importance in Latium, where she had temples in Rome and Lavinium, a cult of healthful waters at Ardea, and
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