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Roman deity of chastity, fertility, and healing; brought from Magna Græcia during the early/middle Republic; her rites let women use strong wine and do blood-sacrifice (things otherwise forbidden to women); men were barred from her mysteries.

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Uso de bona dea en inglés
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The Romans kept serpents in the Temples of Bona Dea and Æsculapius.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
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She is sometimes said to be another name for Bona Dea.
A Wiccan Bible
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Bona Dea, the name of the Mysteries of Rome, 625-u.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
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But we must not profane the mysteries of Bona Dea.
Lothair
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Here is the Bona Dea, the divinity of the mountains, the great mother of Syria!
The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul
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Bona Dea, a Roman divinity of fertility.
Legends of Charlemagne
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"Please, take these as an offering to the Bona Dea," he pleaded.
Cleopatra's Moon
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The ken-no has a more ancient source, and perhaps the custom may be derived from the secret rites of the Bona Dea.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
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'Beloved Bona Dea,' replied Jove, 'calm yourself!'
The Infernal Marriage
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He does outrage to a bona Dea: she to the monasticism of the Court of Law: and he and she awaken unhallowed emotions.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2
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In Rome these mysteries took another name and were called "the rites of Bona Dea," which was but another name for Ceres.
The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion
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The ceremonies connected with the phallus, and those observed in the worship of the Bona Dea, were of a nature that no virtue could withstand.
Imperial Purple