Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s to you all! Saint Valentine’s Day embraces a time of year that is historically associated with love and fertility. There is a lot of debate around the origins of what we now know as Saint Valentine’s Day on February 14th. The association of middle of February with love and fertility goes back to ancient times. Ancient Athenians celebrated it as the month of Gamelion to celebrate the marriage of Greek Gods – Zeus and Hera. The ancient Romans celebrated festival of Lupercus, the god of fertility. The 14th was the day on which young girls’ names were written on slips of paper and thrown into jars to be picked out by the boys. Chooser and chosen would then be partnered for the duration of the Lupercalia festival.
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