IN WHAT ANCIENT FESTIVAL DID MASTERS TEMPORARILY SERVE THEIR SLAVES?
SATURNALIA.
IN ANCIENT ROME, AT THE END OF THE VINTAGE HARVESTING, THEY WOULD HONOR SATURN- THE GOD OF AGRICULTURE.
AS PART OF THE FESTIVITIES, THE MASTERS WOULD SERVE THEIR SLAVES.
IT WAS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE EQUALITY OF RANK AND LACK OF CLASS DISTINCTIONS WHICH EXISTED DURING THE GOLDEN AGE.
THE GOLDEN AGE WAS SUPPOSEDLY RULED OVER BY SATURN.
THE OBSERVANCES ALSO INCLUDED THE EXCHANGE OF GIFTS, THE OFFERING OF SACRIFICES AND UNRESTRAINED MERRYMAKING.
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