Prayer to Carmenta
Carmenta
Grant her the strength, Carmentis, to whom I ask, to whom I pray; extend your assistance to her. Bring with you every herb for ending pain, and soothing songs to sing over her; from across the ocean, from distant shores, bear such herbs as will cure her most severe ills, or whatever else she may most fear. Rack this girl no longer with pain, nor cruelly delay her birthing.
Fons · Source
AuthorAnonymous
WorkRitus Carmentis
Sectionchildbirth prayer
PeriodArchaic
Occasiondifficult childbirth
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formpersonal
DeitiesCarmenta
Functionspetition · invocation
Spherefamily · healing