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This is not in the cited source, nor is it in Heinrich Brouwer's Bona Dea, the sources and a description of the cult. There might be a somewhat tenuous Cerean connection, according to Barbette Spaeth in The Roman Goddess Ceres. I'll take a look around, and see what turns up. Haploidavey (talk) 00:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
The Bona Dea connection seems to come from the redoubtable but not infallible Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, based on a passage from Macrobius with which you will be all too familiar by now (Saturnalia 1.12) and Servius, note to Aeneid 7.750. Macrobius doesn't mention Angitia; Servius does. I haven't looked at it closely, but I'm guessing there's some kind of commutative property going on here: Servius connects A to B, and Macrobius connects B to C, so therefore A[ngitia] must be connected to C (=Bona Dea). That's what I'm guessing anyway; those seeking The Truth make these kinds of leaps, one finds. The Dench material is interesting; I've only added some of it. She mentions the inscription where Angitia is described with cerialis, or such. Cynwolfe (talk) 01:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
