In Roman mythology, Semonia was the goddess of sowing. She belonged to a group of agricultural deities which also comprised Setia (or Seja) and Segetia. Their names are derived from the same stem as the Latin verb sero "to sow".
This ancient deity, associated with crops and sowing, is of possible Roman or Sabine origin and worship. She is usually attested with the epithet Salus Semonia.
Her possible male counterpart is Sabine god Semo Sancus, whose traits merged with Dius Fidius's.
Semonia and Sancus appear together with other agricultural/crop deities Seia and Segetia.
References
- Pliny, Naturalis Historia, XVII, 2.2
- Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 16
- Augustine, De civitate Dei, IV. 8
- Winning, William Balfour. A Manual of Comparative Philology. London: Printed for J. G. & F. Rivington. 1838. p. 255-256.
- Yancey, P. H. Origins from Mythology of Biological Names and Terms: Part III, O-Z. In: Bios. Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1945). pp. 268-282.
- Axtell, Harold Lucius. The deification of abstract ideas in Roman literature and inscriptions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1907. p. 13.
- Woodard, Roger D. Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult. Univsersity of Illinois Press. 2006. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-252-02988-2
- Woodard, Roger D. Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity. Cambridge Univsersity Press. 2013. pp. 212-213. ISBN 978-1-107-02240-9
- MacClement, W. T. Some protective devices among plants. Canada, Kingston: Publishing Committee of Queen's Quarterly, Queen's University. 1909. p. 60.
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