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PAGAN PILLS | San Valentino, il santo della cooperazione tra fedi diverse
PAGAN PILLS | San Valentino, il santo della cooperazione tra fedi diverse
Nel 496 E.C. papa Gelasio I elimina la festa romana della fertilità dei Lupercalia e la rimpiazza con quella di San Valentino, vescovo di Terni, martire e santo cristiano. La sua attribuzione agli innamorati sarebbe arrivata a posteriori. Già comunque all’inizio del Medioevo ci sono le prime associazioni della festa con l’amore. In realtà ci sono almeno due storie differenti sulla sua morte. La…
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The following BPAL offerings have had a good run, but as any goth will remind you: nothing lasts forever! Consider this your LAST CALL, everything linked here will vanish this Thursday, June 6th.
LUPERCALIA 2019 - We couldn’t be any prouder of these blends celebrating everything licentious, lascivious, and libidinous. Take one more scroll down memory lane, you may find yourself shocked by something you missed on the first pass.
HEXENNACHT - Our tribute to annual Night of the Witches revelries: “German fir and forest herbs, incense and bonfire smoke, broom straw, and the wet, glimmering scent of skin warmed by dance.”
LILITH’S WINTER TRAVELOGUE - A rare second set of Lilith perfumes, inspired by a wealth of wintry European vacation memories, both cheerful and somber, like this one: “Lilith surrounded by the ghosts of six million Parisians: damp black moss, grey sandalwood chips of bone, and winding sheets of balsam, ambergris, nagarmotha, and frankincense.”
VERNAL EQUINOX FULL MOON - The Solstice is almost upon us, which means it’s definitely time to relax our grip on springtime fancies and make way for new attractions. With a backup bottle, you can always return to that special time of year! Our blend: “Fossilized amber resin releasing a cascade of crocus and daffodil petals, glory-of-the-snow, graceful iris, radiant life everlasting, and a rainbow burst of tulip.”
DUETS - Our new collection of two-note perfumes will resurface occasionally with Lunacy releases, and then recede just as quickly. This is your last chance for these four blends:
Those looking for the origins of Valentine’s Day inevitably encounter the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia. The Lupercalia festival is described in sometimes conflicting details by classical and Christian writers, so we have some idea of what went on at it, but there’s even more about it we don’t know. For example, we don’t know:
1. which god was celebrated,
2. exactly how/where the Lupercalia was celebrated, or
3. what its origins were.
Lupercalia is one of the most ancient of the Roman holidays (one of the feriae listed on ancient calendars from even before the time Julius Caesar reformed the calendar). It is familiar to us today for 2 main reasons:
1.It is associated with Valentine’s Day
2. It is the setting for Caesar’s refusal of the crown that was made immortal by Shakespeare, in his Julius Caesar. This is important in two ways: the association of Julius Caesar and the Lupercalia gives us some insight into the final months of Caesar’s life as well as a look at the Roman holiday.
The name of the Lupercalia was talked about a lot in the wake of the 2007 discovery of the legendary Lupercal cave – where, supposedly, the twins Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf.
read more here:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/socialcustomsdailylife/a/010908Lupercal.htm
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