Nefas piaculum
Nefas Piaculum (also NP days ) marked special public holidays in the Roman calendar on which an atonement ( piaculum ) was made, the term nefas in Latin literature since Plautus in the third century BC. Is known and denotes the divine moral declaration of no objection for Fas actions.
Fas stands in connection with the Nefas Piaculum for the permission for a planned project confirmed by a divine proposition. In this respect, the religious term Nefas Piaculum stands for a morally harmless expiatory sacrifice, which was qualified as a sacred act through a previously made divine ordinance. The divine refusal is called accordingly Nefas est Piaculum , which in essence means a sacrifice of atonement against the divine proposition of moral harmlessness .
In the Roman calendar, the Nefas Piaculum with the abbreviation "NP" were noted in the Fasti as Feriae . All monthly ids were automatically "NP days", since the ids were for the deity Jupiter .
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literature
- Jörg Rüpke : Calendar and Public. The history of the representation and religious qualification of time in Rome (= Religious- historical experiments and preparatory work. Vol. 40). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1995, ISBN 3-11-014514-6 (also: Tübingen, University, habilitation paper, 1994).