Liber
Liber (often also Liber pater ) is the Roman god of vegetative and animal fertilization, he was also worshiped as the god of wine that frees worries and toil. Bacchus , known today as the Roman god of wine, was originally just a nickname for Liber pater . In ancient times he was equated with the Greek Dionysus .
Liber is the son of Ceres and brother of Libera , together with them he forms a trinity of gods ( Aventine Triassic ). In honor of Libers, the Romans celebrated the Liberalia on March 17th , on this occasion the toga virilis (men's toga ) was put on the young people for the first time as a sign of coming of age.
literature
- Manfred Wacht, Franz Rickert: Liber (Dionysus). In: Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity . Volume 23, Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7772-1013-1 , Sp. 67-99
- Georg Wissowa : Liber . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Sp. 2021-2029 ( digitized version ).
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