http://everydaysaholiday.org/lupercalia/ why wait to celebrate? Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:33:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://everydaysaholiday.org/lupercalia/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Love in the Time of V.D. (Valentine’s Day) « Everyday’s a Holiday Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:45:48 +0000 http://everydaysaholiday.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-128 [...] Lupercalia commemorated the She-wolf that suckled the babies Romulus—founder of Rome—and his brother Remus in a cave on the site of the future capital. On February 15 each year a group of priests known as the Brotherhood of the Wolf, or Luperci, would strip to their birthday suits and sacrifice a dog and goat at the cave. Then they’d put on loincloths of the goat’s skin and go about the streets of Rome smacking women on their backsides with an animal skin lash. This was intended to promote fertility and ease the pangs of childbirth.  [...] [...] Lupercalia commemorated the She-wolf that suckled the babies Romulus—founder of Rome—and his brother Remus in a cave on the site of the future capital. On February 15 each year a group of priests known as the Brotherhood of the Wolf, or Luperci, would strip to their birthday suits and sacrifice a dog and goat at the cave. Then they’d put on loincloths of the goat’s skin and go about the streets of Rome smacking women on their backsides with an animal skin lash. This was intended to promote fertility and ease the pangs of childbirth.  [...]

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