🪷 August 5this the Feast of #Hygeia/#Salus daughter of #Aesculapius. She is the goddess of cleanliness, not only bodily but environmentally. Depicted with a serpent which #Hygiea feeds. Worshipers offer locks of hair to #Hygieia seeking her blessing. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/02/on-feast-day-of-hygeia-we-honor-our.html 🪷

🪷 26 Feb is the Feast of #Hygeia/#Salus daughter of #Aesculapius. She is the goddess of cleanliness, not only bodily, but environmentally. Depicted with a serpent which #Hygiea feeds. Worshipers offer locks of hair to #Hygieia seeking her blessing. 🪷

🪷 26 Feb is the Feast of #Hygeia/#Salus daughter of #Aesculapius. She is the goddess of cleanliness, not only bodily, but environmentally. Depicted with a serpent which #Hygiea feeds. Worshipers offer locks of hair to #Hygieia seeking her blessing. 🪷

#Sirona is in fact a Gaulish #Goddess associated with thermal baths and healing. Her name means something like "Divine Star," and was also spelled Đirona, Θirona, or Serona.

She was often worshipped alongside #Apollo ~ #Grannos, Solar Gods Who were also of healing and thermal baths.

Her iconography was represented by Roman artists as #Hygeia, a Greek Goddess of health and hygiene.

More on the Etruscan bronze statues.

Starting in 2020, funded by the San Casciano dei Bagni municipality, archaeologists unearthed a large marble pool of an ancient #Etruscan sanctuary. It was decorated with fountains and altars to the gods #Apollo, his son #Asclepius and Asclepius' daughter #Hygeia.

Archaeologist Emanuele Mariotti says that finding so many objects in their original site provides a unique historical context.

#archaeology #art #AncientArt

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1138904735/italy-ancient-bronze-statues-discovery-tuscany