Is Valentine's Day, the invention of Fleurop a worldwide conspiracy of the florist, or was St.. Valentin originally did a werewolf in sheep's clothing?
"La Lupa" is the saint of the Roman she-wolf legend
the nurse of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
Lupas temple priestesses were called lupa.
Rome's history of seduction begins the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia by Mars.
She gave the twins Romulus and Remus life.
The children were exposed, found by a shepherd, his wife Acca
Larentia her foster mother.
The direct meaning of the word lupa = wolf girl
led over time to a considerable mess.
The Roman Lupercalia became the Feast of the Great Goddess Lupa
in their aspect of Juno Februata,
the goddess of "love fever".
"The annual festival of Lupercalia celebrated the Roman women across the country in the grotto of the she-wolf named Lupercal *; in Rome was the cave at the foot of the Palatine, to find one of the seven hills of Rome.
The lupa wrote their names on papyrus strip and drag these little letter and let young men together in great spiritual sensibility, the service celebrated goddesses.
(? Whatever that means)
After they had taken part in the ceremony, which walked naked youths who Luperci, through the cities, to bless this "
source. Matriarchat.net
Later the matter was then probably reinterpreted a bit, but the connection
reflected by wolves and fertility is also clearly in the festival of the wolf god Faunus, who led the nickname Lupercus ("Wolf defenders") and continue on 15 February was celebrated.
Faunus, who appears often in the form of a large number of fawns was seen as particularly greedy.
Félix Vallotton
His priest (Luperci = wolves) were at the party, dressed in a goatskin to the Palatine and beat them with belts to the passers-by. Childless women hoping for fertility by such shocks.
was not until the Christianization of the 14th February to the dedicated St. Valentine, a Christian martyr, which was just chopped off the head during the Lupercalia. However, obviously an insecure patron. The early martyrologies of the 4th Century recorded three different St. Valentine, in the course of the centuries were inextricably mixed together. Although since the antiquity of the St. Valentine was revered as a martyr in Rome and as bishop of Terni, the historical evidence seems so uncertain and complicated that it is the Saints since 1972 no longer are in the official church calendar.
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"La Lupa" is the saint of the Roman she-wolf legend
the nurse of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
Lupas temple priestesses were called lupa.
Rome's history of seduction begins the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia by Mars.
She gave the twins Romulus and Remus life.
The children were exposed, found by a shepherd, his wife Acca
Larentia her foster mother.
The direct meaning of the word lupa = wolf girl
led over time to a considerable mess.
The Roman Lupercalia became the Feast of the Great Goddess Lupa
in their aspect of Juno Februata,
the goddess of "love fever".
"The annual festival of Lupercalia celebrated the Roman women across the country in the grotto of the she-wolf named Lupercal *; in Rome was the cave at the foot of the Palatine, to find one of the seven hills of Rome.
The lupa wrote their names on papyrus strip and drag these little letter and let young men together in great spiritual sensibility, the service celebrated goddesses.
(? Whatever that means)
After they had taken part in the ceremony, which walked naked youths who Luperci, through the cities, to bless this "
source. Matriarchat.net
Later the matter was then probably reinterpreted a bit, but the connection
reflected by wolves and fertility is also clearly in the festival of the wolf god Faunus, who led the nickname Lupercus ("Wolf defenders") and continue on 15 February was celebrated.
Faunus, who appears often in the form of a large number of fawns was seen as particularly greedy.
Félix Vallotton
His priest (Luperci = wolves) were at the party, dressed in a goatskin to the Palatine and beat them with belts to the passers-by. Childless women hoping for fertility by such shocks.
was not until the Christianization of the 14th February to the dedicated St. Valentine, a Christian martyr, which was just chopped off the head during the Lupercalia. However, obviously an insecure patron. The early martyrologies of the 4th Century recorded three different St. Valentine, in the course of the centuries were inextricably mixed together. Although since the antiquity of the St. Valentine was revered as a martyr in Rome and as bishop of Terni, the historical evidence seems so uncertain and complicated that it is the Saints since 1972 no longer are in the official church calendar.
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