Carna
- a goddess, previously called Crane, guardian of doorhinges (i. e. of domestic life) and the life of man, Ov. F. 6, 101 sq.; Macr. S. 1, 12.
or Carnea, a Roman divinity, whose name is probably connected with caro, flesh, for she was regarded as the protector of the physical well-being of man. It was especially the chief organs of the human body, without which man cannot exist, such as the heart, the lungs, and the liver, tliat were recommended to her protection. Junius Brutus, at the beginning of the commonwealth, was believe to have dedicated to her a sanctuary on the Caelian hill, and a festival was celebrated to her on the first of June, which day was called fabrariue calendae, from beans (fabae) and bacon being offered to her. (Macr. 1.12; Varro, apud Nonium, s. v. Mactare ; Ovid, Ov. Fast. 6.101, &c., who however confounds Cardea with Carna.) [L.S]
CARNA (Κάρνα), the capital of the Minaei, a tribe of Arabia Felix (Strab. 16. p. 768), mentioned also by Ptolemy (Ptol. 6.16) as an inland town; probably the same as Pliny's Carnon( 6.28. s. 22).
[G.W]A Roman divinity, whose name is probably connected with caro, “flesh,” for she was regarded as the protector of the physical wellbeing of man. Her festival was celebrated on June 1, and was believed to have been instituted by Brutus in the first year of the Republic. Ovid confounds this goddess with Cardea (q.v.). See Macrob. Sat. i. 12.