Cardea
Ancient Roman goddess of the hinge / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Cardea?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
For other uses, see Cardea (disambiguation).
Cardea or Carda was the ancient Roman goddess of the hinge (Latin cardo, cardinis), Roman doors being hung on pivot hinges. The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph. Ovid's conflation of the goddesses is likely to have been his poetic invention,[1][2] but it has also been conjectured that Carna was a contracted form of Cardina,[3] and at minimum Ovid was observing that their traditions were congruent.[4]