On the second and principal day of the festival the ceremonies were conducted in the grove of the Dea Dia.
The settler who went into the woods might know neither the name nor the sex of the indwelling numen; " si deus si dea," " sive mas sive femina," ran the old formulae.
But as Wykeham was of the party of the Black Prince and his widow Joan of Kent, no dea ex machina was needed.
Most of the books mentioned under Gold Coast also dea!
When you say " we turned from Dea ", are you referring to some distant ancestress of contemporary maid?
