abruzzo | Ritual Goddess

November 2: All Souls Day—Moving Ancestors Through a Portal of Fire—Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Oct 23, 2022 | Strega and Italian-Americana

Samhain/Halloween is October 31. All Saints Day is November 1. All Souls Day is November 2. In Italy, All Souls Day is a day to remember the ancestors and visit their graves. To anyone who is Catholic it is also a day where one can pray souls out of purgatory. This is...

September 23: The Goddess Ceres — Grain and Harvest Festa (Autumnal Equinox)—Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Sep 18, 2022 | Goddess, Strega and Italian-Americana

A celebration of grain, all things cereal and The Harvest. In the Northern Hemisphere at Autumn Equinox, we begin the movement into darkness. Equinoxes are days of equal light and dark. After today, days will get shorter as we descend into the dark time, beginning...

August 2: Festival of Ops: Celebrating the Goddess of Abundance. Praise Her Name. — Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Jul 31, 2022 | Goddess, Strega and Italian-Americana

The Goddess Ops has her roots in pre-Roman Italy. Her name is from Opis which is latin for plenty. She is often correlated with the earth and fertility, fruitfulness, riches and prosperity. She is often depicted with a crown on her head and called a Queen. Wiki tells...

May 5: Celebration of the Italian Snake Goddess Angitia — Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Apr 27, 2022 | Goddess, Strega and Italian-Americana

“On the first Thursday in May the most pagan of Christian festivals takes place in Cocullo (AQ) in honor of San Domenico Abate, whose statue is carried through the village covered with live snakes; the old snake rites connected to the goddess Angitia were passed on to...

Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Jan 23, 2022 | Strega and Italian-Americana

I was not born in the Abruzzo. I was born in Keene, NH, the daughter of a second generation Italian American. I am not Italian but half of my ancestors are all from the same village in the Abruzzo: Torre de’ Passeri. My journey back to the roots of my Italian lineage...