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en-wikipedia-org-5974		Secular Games - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2369	344	70	The Saecular Games[1] (Latin: Ludi saeculares, originally Ludi Terentini) was a Roman religious celebration involving sacrifices and theatrical performances, held in ancient Rome for three days and nights to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next. According to Roman mythology, the Secular Games began when a Sabine man called Valesius prayed for a cure for his children's illness and was supernaturally instructed to sacrifice on the Campus Martius to Dis Pater and Proserpina, deities of the underworld. The Senate decreed that an inscribed record of the Games should be set up in the Tarentum, a site in the Campus Martius.[18] This inscription has partially survived,[19] and offers information about the ceremonies.[20] The night-time sacrifices were made not to the underworld deities Dis Pater and Proserpina, but to the Moerae (fates), the Ilythiae (goddesses of childbirth), and Terra Mater (the "Earth mother").	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5974.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5974.txt