Anonymous ID: 6b6535 Feb. 13, 2022, 12:06 p.m. No.15618911   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8931 >>9135 >>9210 >>9291 >>9346 >>9355 >>9364

St Valentine's Day: How Did a Tradition of Blood and Fertility Become a Celebration of Love?

 

Valentine's Day is viewed by many as a "non-holiday" created by vendors to peddle flowers, chocolate, pink cards, and teddy bears, but the day has a bloody and ancient history.

 

When it comes to holidays, scary stories filled with blood are typically associated with Halloween, but delve into the history of St. Valentine's Day and you might learn something that will shock you.

Love and Romance? More Like Fertility and Blood

 

Many believe that what we know today as St. Valentine's Day, celebrated on 14 February, was initially the pagan festival of Lupercalia. The day was celebrated in the Roman Empire on 15 February and dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus.

 

The ancient Roman festival was about female fertility rather than romantic love – and there wasn't a piece of chocolate or a rose in sight. Tradition dictated that priests would gather at the entrance to the sacred cave where Romulus and Remus were believed to have been nurtured by a she-wolf.They would then sacrifice a goat (for fertility) and a dog (for purification).

 

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