In ancient Roman religion, Antevorta was a goddess of the future, also known as Porrima or Prorsa (a contracted form of Proversa). She and her sister Postverta (or Postvorta) were described as companions or siblings of the goddess Carmenta, sometimes referred to as "the Carmentae".[1] They may have originally been two aspects of Carmenta, namely those of her knowledge of the future and the past (compare the two-faced Janus).
Antevorta and Postvorta had two altars in Rome and were invoked by pregnant women as protectors against the dangers of childbirth.[2] Antevorta was said to be present at the birth when the baby was born head-first; Postverta, when the feet of the baby came first.
^Ovid, Fasti, I. 633; Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XVI. 16; Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 7
^Varro, cited by Aulus Gellius in his Attic Nights, XVI. 16
In ancient Roman religion, Antevorta was a goddess of the future, also known as Porrima or Prorsa (a contracted form of Proversa). She and her sister...
goddess of the past and one of the two Carmentes (along with her sister Antevorta, or Prorsa, a contracted form of Proversa). They were companions of the...
Hypolimnas antevorta is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-eastern Tanzania. The habitat consists of sub-montane forests at altitudes...
Camenae include: Carmenta, or Carmentis Egeria, or Ægeria, or Aegeria Antevorta, or Porrima, or Prorsa Postverta, or Postvorta The last two were sometimes...
Porrima may refer to: Antevorta, a goddess in Roman mythology Gamma Virginis, a star in the constellation Virgo Schinia, a genus of insects known as flower...
the divine personification of the grain supply to the city of Rome. Antevorta, goddess of the future and one of the Camenae; also called Porrima. Apollo...
atop the Capitoline Hill. Carmenta was invoked in it as Postvorta and Antevorta, epithets which had reference to her power of looking back into the past...
Horae Kairos Moirai Atropos Clotho Lachesis Moros Aeternitas Anna Perenna Antevorta, goddess of the future, one of the Camenae Janus Parcae Decima Morta Nona...
offering of dowries Agenoria BCh Agonius Aius Locutius Alemona BCh Altor Ag Antevorta BCh Arculus, tutelary god of chests and strongboxes (arcae) Argentinus...
traditional name Porrima derives from Ancient Rome: Porrima, also known as Antevorta, was one of the Camenae or goddesses of prophecy. In 2016, the International...
presides over the dies lustricus. At some point in time the two Carmentes (Antevorta and Postverta), had something to do with children's fates as well. In...
the indigitamenta: in relation to Janus, Macrobius cites instances of Antevorta and Postvorta, the personifications of two indigitations of Carmentis...
Agenoria Alala Alemona (Alemonia) Angerona Angitia Anna Perenna Annona Antevorta Arachne Aura Aurora Bellona Bona Dea Britannia Bubona Camenae Candelifera...
Focillopis but where transferred to Catada by Martin Lödl in 2001. Catada antevorta (Viette, 1958) Catada dichroana (Viette, 1958) De Prins, J. & De Prins...
and like Janus has two opposed faces, Prorsa and Postvorta (also named Antevorta and Porrima), of Iuturna, who as a gushing spring evokes the process of...
Global Information