VALENTINES DAY ORIGINS
- ParrisVstefanow
- Feb 14
- 3 min read
Valentine's Day - is a pagan festival that encourages love and physical lust.
It is celebrated precisely 13 days after Imbolg, thus imprinting upon it the number '13', Satan's number of extreme rebellion.
While most people view this day as the day to honor your wife or your lover, this celebration is steeped in paganism
Consider the camouflaged occult gods in Valentine's Day:
1. Cupid, the son of Venus, is really Tammuz, son of Semiramis
2. Venus, daughter of Jupiter, is really Semiramis herself. Jupiter is the head deity, a sun god - Nimrod, Semiramis' husband, is considered a sun god in the Babylonian Mysteries.
Listen to a pagan author describe February, the month in which Valentine's Day falls.
"The name of this month comes from the Roman goddess Februa and St. Febronia (from Febris, the fever of love). She is the patroness of the passion of love;
....... Her orgiastic rites are celebrated on 14 February - still observed as St. Valentine's Day - when, in Roman times, young men would draw billets naming their female partners.
This is a time of clear vision into other worlds, expressed by festivals of purification.
On 1 February is the celebration of the cross-quarter day, or fire festival (Imbolc) a purificatory festival.
It is followed on the 2nd by its Christian counterpart, Candlemas, the purification of the Virgin Mary."
["The Pagan Book of Days", Nigel Pennick]
Valentine's Day is a day of "orgiastic rites" in which the pagans encouraged the flow of lustful passion.
Valentine's Day (Feb. 14): Ancient Roman (and likely pre-Roman) Lupercalia celebration (Note: Lupus is Latin for wolf, Lupae means 'she wolves').
At first an ancient Roman priesthood fertility ritual, which was later turned into the the Roman Catholic St. Valentine celebration.
"February occurred later on the ancient Roman calendar than it does today so Lupercalia was held in the spring and regarded as a festival of purification and fertility.
Each year on February 15, the Luperci priests gathered on Palantine Hill at the cave of Lupercal.
Two naked young men, assisted by the Vestals (the virgin holy female priests of Vesta), sacrificed a dog and a goat at the site.
The blood was smeared on the foreheads of the young men and then wiped away with wool dipped in milk.
Roman armies took the Lupercalia customs with them as they invaded France and Britain.
One of these was a lottery where the names of available maidens were placed in a box and drawn out by the young men.
Each man accepted the girl whose name he drew as his love - for the duration of the festival, or sometimes longer.
As Catholicism began to slowly and systematically dismantle the pagan pantheons, it frequently replaced the festivals of the pagan gods with more ecumenical celebrations.
It was easier to convert the local population if they could continue to celebrate on the same days, they would just be instructed to celebrate different people and ideologies.
Lupercalia, with its lover lottery, had no place in the new 'Christian' order.
In the year 496 AD, Pope Gelasius I did away with the festival of Lupercalia, citing that it was pagan and immoral.
He chose Valentine as the patron saint of lovers, who would be honored at the new festival on the 14th of every February."
"The festival began with the sacrifice by the Luperci (or the Flamen Dialis) of two male goats and a dog.
Next two patrician young Luperci were led to the altar, to be anointed on their foreheads with the sacrificial blood;
....... which was wiped off the bloody knife with wool soaked in milk, after which they were expected to smile and laugh;
....... the smearing of the forehead with blood probably refers to human sacrifice originally practiced at the festival.
The sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims, which were called Februa;
....... dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city;
....... the line of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two bands, striking the people who crowded near.
Girls and young women would line up on their route to receive lashes from these whips.
This was supposed to ensure fertility, prevent sterility in women and ease the pains of childbirth.
This tradition itself may survive ('Christianized', and shifted to Spring) in certain ritual Easter Monday whippings."