The three major flamens " ( flamines maiores ) " were the Flamen Dialis, the high priest of Volcanus ( Vulcan ), Volturnus, and two whose names are lost.
22.
In the view of Dum�zil, these prohibitions mark the Flamen Dialis as serving a heavenly god, with his attributes of absolute purity and freedom, but also wielder of lightning and kingship.
23.
Julius Caesar was nominated to be Flamen Dialis in 84 BC . Many scholars think he was not installed, although it seems unlikely that the Romans would allow a nominee to wait years without inauguration.
24.
Gaius Stern asserts that Tacitus is probably correct, meaning that Maluginensis became Flamen Dialis while Lepidus was Pontifex Maximus ( 16 / 15 BC ), so that Lepidus had to supervise his inauguration at Augustus'direction, possibly unwillingly.
25.
The office of Flamen Dialis, and the offices of the other " flamines maiores ", were traditionally said to have been created by Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, although Numa himself performed many of the rites of the Flamen Dialis.
26.
The office of Flamen Dialis, and the offices of the other " flamines maiores ", were traditionally said to have been created by Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, although Numa himself performed many of the rites of the Flamen Dialis.
27.
He held the office of " Flamen Dialis " ( high priest of Jupiter ), and wore the " flamen "'s cap at all times, unlike the other " flamines " who only wore it while performing sacrifices.
28.
He created the Fratres Arvales, a sacred brotherhood devoted to agricultural rites of propitiation, the three flaminates i . e ., the three flamines maiores, the flamen Dialis, the flamen Martialis and the flamen Quirinalis each devoted to the cult of a major deity.
29.
Canto XCVII draws heavily on Alexander del Mar's " History of Monetary Systems " in a survey ranging from Fortuna together with Greek forms of solar worship and the Flamen Dialis that is intended to integrate gold and silver as attributes of coin and the divine.
30.
The encounter between the heavenly and political, legal aspects of the deity are well represented by the prerogatives, privileges, functions and taboos proper to his " flamen " ( the " flamen Dialis " and his wife, the " flaminica Dialis " ).
