Fawn

Fawn Fawn was kind, cheerful and active God of forests, groves and fields. He vigilantly guarded the cattle herd from predators, for which the shepherds worshiped him under the name of the God of Luperca (defender from wolves)(1) and for his propitiation the sacrifice of goats and goat. Every year on February 15 the whole of Rome celebrated the Lupercalia, sacred, established, according to legend, by Romulus and even Remus, who in infancy had been reared by a wolf and Sami grew up among the shepherds. Sanctuary Fawn - Lupercal - was at the grotto on the Palatine hill, where a shepherd had found the infants Romulus and Remus. Began the celebration of Lupercalia with the sacrifice of goats and goats, and near the altar stood two young men, the foreheads of which the priests - luperci touched coated with the blood of the sacrificial knife and immediately washed those bloody strips of goat's hair dipped in milk. The boys had to laugh. Having finished the ritual sacrifices and sacred feasts, the priests, cut from the skins of sacrificed goats loincloth - aprons and belts, which were called, Februa(2), with shouts and noise ran out of Lupercal and raced around the Palatine hill, striking all the counter belts. It was an ancient purifying and expiatory rites, and the Romans willingly substituted under blows of the Holy belt, as if relieving them from all the filth that had accumulated over the year.