Carmen Arvale

The Carmen Arvale is a hymn of the Roman priestly college of the Arval Brothers ( Arvales fratres ) in ancient Latin , with which the dance for Dea Dia and the growth god Marmar were accompanied. The first five lines of verse are repeated three times each.

The text says:		Translation:
enos Lases iuvate neve lue rue Marmar sins incurrere in pleoris satur fu, fere Mars, limen sali, sta berber semunis alterni advocapit conctos enos Marmor iuvato triumpe triumpe triumpe triumpe triumpe.		Help us, Laren! And don't let ruin fall on many, Marmar (= Mars)! Be fed up, wild Mars! Jump over the threshold! Stand there! Call on all the seed gods in turn! Help us, marble (= Mars)! Triumph Triumph Triumph Triumph Triumph!

After invoking the Laren , the help of Mars is asked to defend the borders, so that the fields do not dry out, so that one can be satisfied and dance. In addition, the seed goddess is asked for help and a rich harvest.

Part of the text has only survived in fragments from an inscription from the year 218 . There it is already preserved in an ancient form and was probably no longer fully understood at the time. So the sound change to lares was not carried out and the word was handed down in its original form lases . The precise translation is not clear even for classical scholars.

The Carmen Arvale was revived as a Wiccan chant by Gerald Brousseau Gardner .

literature

• Eduard Norden : From ancient Roman priestly books, Lund / Leipzig 1939, 109–280, 286–293.