Lupercalia!
Warren Ellis writes:
"Always remember: Valentine's Day is a Christian corruption of a pagan festival involving werewolves
, blood and fucking."
And actually - what we learn from Plutarch:
"Lupercalia, Of which many write that it was anciently celebrated by shepherds, and so has some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea. At this time many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. And so many women of rank purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant Thus will be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy . Find
I MUCH better than our stupid prescribed by the greeting card and flower industry, Valentine's Day and advocate the reintroduction of Lupercalia. Everyone would benefit.
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