Quirinus
Quirinus is a Roman god, considered at the traditional period as a warlike god, near to Mars and it has as a woman the goddess Hora.
Quirinus was with the departure a divinity which incarnates in the triad “précapitoline” the third Indo-European function, i.e. the function of production and reproduction, at the sides of Jupiter for the first function (sovereignty) and of Mars for the second (war). Later, it was compared to Romulus divinized after its death. It does not have clean mythology, if it is not that of Romulus, but one of the hills of Rome, the Quirinal, bears its name.
The word Quirinus is a derivative of the Latin name quiris , “citizen” (especially in the plural quirites ), which could come from old a Co-viri , “men together”, “union of the men”. This etymology, although contestable, approaches the functional direction of the former Italic divinity.
Its festival, organized the February 17th, is called Quirinalia and is organized by the prétre Flamen Quirinalis.
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