The Secret Name of Rome

According to a widespread tradition in antiquity, a city had three names: a sacred one, a public one and a secret one.

The public name of Rome was joined by the religious name of Flora or Florens, used on the occasion of certain sacred ceremonies, the secret one has remained unknown.

The reason and the need for this secrecy goes back to another tradition widespread among the ancients (but also in some non-Western contemporary cultures) and which is also found in the history of the origin of writing: the name of an object or entity it expressed the essence and energy of the object or entity it defined.

Naming something was equivalent to making it alive and existing and knowing the name meant, in practice, having the power to influence, for good or bad, the object of which one possessed the knowledge.

The name of the City of Rome had to remain secret, it was sacrilege to pronounce it. The reason, for the Romans, was attributable to the ancient rite of the Evocatio. The Evocatio was a rite for which the patron god of a city was invoked (e-vocare means “to call from a place”), pronouncing its name, in front of its walls during a siege. Knowing the name of the god was equivalent in the idea to taking possession of the essence of the besieged city and subduing it.

This name was probably known only to the highest pontiffs.

Tacita

it has to do with silence
SHHHH
"the silent one"
you cant speak the secret name of Rome because its SILENCE
its also a title given to Lupa
the secret name is born from silence
Angerona is the protector of the secret name... and its born out of one who is silent.

“The Silent One” – Tacita literally means "the silent (female) one" in Latin, from tacere, to be silent.

SHHHH – Her defining trait is silence; she is invoked in hush and secrecy.

You can't speak the secret name of Rome – It was believed the true tutelary name of Rome (its magical, divine name) had to be kept secret or risk destruction. Tacita is closely associated with keeping that name unspoken.

A god called "the silent one" – Again, Tacita. Ovid speaks of her in Fasti (Book 2), where she’s honored in rites of silence.

Title given to Lupa / Acca Larentia – There are mythic overlaps between Acca Larentia, the she-wolf/nurse of Romulus and Remus, and Tacita/Dea Muta. Some traditions equate them or fold them together in cultic syncretism.

Angerona as protector of the name – Angerona is the goddess who protects the secret name of Rome by keeping silent. Some identify her with Tacita or see Tacita as her epiphany.

So the answer is Tacita –
The secret name, the silence, the unspoken mother.
She is Rome's hidden voice, and in that hush... is power.

In Roman mythology, Tacita, also known as Dea Tacita or Dea Muta, was the goddess of silence, secrecy, and the underworld. She was associated with discretion and was a silent witness to both mortal affairs and the secrets of the gods. Tacita was also considered a goddess of the dead and presided over funeral cults, symbolizing the passage from death to new life.

Tacita was revered for her silence, which was considered a virtue in Roman society. She was the guardian of secrets and ensured discretion in both human and divine matters

Tacita was considered a muse, drawing people towards silence and confidentiality, reflecting the importance of discretion in Roman culture

Amor

Roma spelled backwards is Amor

Some scholars and antiquarians, like have proposed "Amor" (love) as the secret name of Rome.

The poet and Latinist Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), in his Hymn to Rome, claims that the secret name of Rome was his palindrome, Amor, that is love. According to Pascoli, who talks about it in the ode Inno a Roma, the secret name of Rome was its palindrome, Amor, that is love, which meant the secret dedication of the city to Venus, goddess of love and beauty, thus reconnecting to the cult of Venus the parent, mother of Aeneas and of the Roman lineage. Many historians have agreed with this hypothesis.

Other ideas

Other names like Hirpa, Evouia, and Valentia have been suggested as potential secret names of Rome

The existence of a secret name, and its precise meaning, remains a matter of debate among scholars. While the concept is intriguing, there is no definitive answer to what the secret name was or what it symbolized

From the livestreams

[00:26:37.480 - 00:26:42.720] "...just heard the name the secret name of Rome you'll understand we brought a Nas..."

ammon:
"from a place of weakness to a place of strength"
"for those who just heard the secret name of rome"

Which is what Lupa did for Romulous and Reamus. Lupa's secret name is Tacita.

[00:30:59.760 - 00:31:06.720] "...say Venus on purpose because you children of Rome you'll know what I mean did anybody find the secret name of Rome..."