Fordicidia
In ancient Roman religion, the Fordicidia was a festival of fertility, held April 15, that pertained to farming and animal husbandry. It involved the sacrifice of a pregnant cow to Tellus, the ancient Roman goddess of the Earth, in proximity to the festival of Ceres (Cerealia) on April 19.
On the Roman religious calendar, the month of April (Aprilis) was in general preoccupied with deities who were female or ambiguous in gender, opening with the Feast of Venus on the Kalends. Several other festivals pertaining to farm life were held in April: the Parilia, a feast of shepherds, on April 21; the Robigalia on April 25, to protect crops from blight; and the Vinalia, one of the two wine festivals on the calendar, at the end of the month. Of these, the Fordicidia and Robigalia are likely to have been of greatest antiquity. William Warde Fowler, whose early 20th-century work on Roman festivals remains a standard reference, asserted that the Fordicidia was "beyond doubt one of the oldest sacrificial rites in Roman religion."
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Eye for an Eye
by: VirtuocityEven now in heaven
there were angels carrying savage weapons
An eye for an eye...(for an eye...)
a tooth for a tooth...(for a tooth...)
Run, run, run,
but you sure can't hide...(hide... hide)
An eye for an eye...(for an eye...)
a tooth for a tooth...(for a tooth...)
Run, run, run,
but you sure can't hide...(hide... hide)
Is that room been fit to earth?
doesn't help the to grow sunshine?
is this darkness all you'll take?
have you'd passed through this life?
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...(hide, hide...)
Where you're going you're not coming back from
Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...(hide, hide...)
An eye for an eye...(for an eye...)
a tooth for a tooth...(for a tooth...)
run, run, run,
but you sure can't hide...(hide... hide)
An eye for an eye...(for an eye...)
a tooth for a tooth...(for a tooth...)
run, run, run,
but you sure can't hide...(hide... hide)
This grain evil
where is it come from?
had it still the end of the world?
who's doing this?
who's killed us?
marking us with the sign of the holy mighty man
Run, run, run...(run, run...)
run, run, run...(run, run...)
An eye for an eye...(for an eye...)
a tooth for a tooth...(for a tooth...)
run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...(hide... hide)
An eye for an eye...(for an eye...)
a tooth for a tooth...(for a tooth...)
run, run, run,
but you sure can't hide...(hide... hide)
(an eye for an eye...)
are you righteous?
(a tooth for a tooth...)
kind?
(run, run, run but you sure can't hide...)
do you come for?
(an eye for an eye...)
are you loved by heart?
(a tooth for a tooth...)
do you imagine your suffers will be last?
(run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...)
because you loved to be truth
an eye for an eye...
a tooth for a tooth...
run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...
run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...(hide, hide...)