Modern scholars have proposed the town of Currium or Curria, Quirinus, "*quir(i)s" or "*quiru", the Sabine word for spear and curia. The *quiru- would design the sacred spear that gave the name to the primitive curiae. The discovery at Sulmona of a sanctuary of Hercules "Curinus" lends support to a Sabine origin of the epithet and of the cult of Juno in the curiae. The spear could also be the "celibataris hasta" (bridal spear) that in the marriage ceremonies was used to comb the bridegroom's hair as a good omen. Palmer views the rituals of the curiae devoted to her as a reminiscence of the origin of the curiae themselves in rites of "evocatio", a practice the Romans continued to use for Juno or her equivalent at later times as for Falerii, Veii and Carthage. Juno Curitis would then be the deity evoked after her admission into the curiae.