Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day.
One theory of the origin of this tradition is forwarded by Professor Jack Oruch.
In Ancient Rome, February 15 was Lupercalia, an old fertility rite, which was celebrated by shepherds years before. Noble youths and magistrates ran through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. Many women also purposely got in their way believing this would help them get pregnant.
The word Lupercalia, of course, comes from lupus, or wolf, so the holiday may be connected with the legendary wolf that mothered Romulus and Remus. The Festival of Juno [Zeus] Februa, meaning “Juno the purifier “or “the chaste Juno,” was celebrated on February 13-14.
Considering that Tony Vahl and Damian Hospital had already linked The Wolf to Type IV [The Romantic/Individualist] Enneagram Personalities in their Animalgram theory, we are not surprised.
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