Lemuria (festival)
The Lemuralia or Lemuria was a feast in the religion of ancient Rome during which the Romans performed rites to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes. The unwholesome spectres of the restless dead, the lemures or larvae were propitiated with offerings of beans. On those days, the Vestals would prepare sacred mola salsa, a salted flour cake, from the first ears of wheat of the season.
In the Julian calendar the three days of the feast were 9, 11, and 13 May. The origin myth of this ancient festival, according to Ovid, who derives Lemuria from a supposed Remuria was that it had been instituted by Romulus to appease the spirit of Remus (Ovid, Fasti, V.421ff; Porphyrius). Ovid notes that at this festival it was the custom to appease or expel the evil spirits by walking barefoot and throwing black beans over the shoulder at night. It was the head of the household who was responsible for getting up at midnight and walking around the house with bare feet throwing out black beans and repeating the incantation, "I send these; with these beans I redeem me and mine" (Haec ego mitto; his redimo meque meosque fabis.) nine times. The household would then clash bronze pots while repeating, "Ghosts of my fathers and ancestors, be gone!" nine times.
Lemuralia (EP)
Lemuralia is a 7-track bonus disc released by English-Irish singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, which accompanied the release of his fifth studio album, Lupercalia. It contains previously unheard audio, remixes and tracks in demo stages.
Availability
Lemuralia is only available for purchase from Wolf's official online store, as a bonus disc to the Lupercalia CD or as part of the Super Bundle box set.
Track listing
The track listing for Lemuralia was released on June 11, 2011.
All songs written and composed by Patrick Wolf.
Track information
Official information regarding the EP states that "You will be able to hear some of the album tracks in their demo stages and various sonic experiments, collaborations and sketches that never made it to the final cut of Lupercalia. Straight from the heart of Patrick's home studio and dusty depths of the Lupercalia tapes and project hard drives."
Wolf says of "Oil Slick" that it "is a section of the symphony I wrote in the year 2000. entrance piece for the composition degree I never finished!"
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