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Lupercalia, also
known as Lupercal, was a
pastoral festival of
Ancient Rome
observed annually on
February 15 to
purify the city,
promoting health and fertility...
- century, some
seven hundred years after celebration of
Lupercalia is
believed to have ceased.
Lupercalia was a
festival local to the city of Rome. The more...
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Lupercalia is the
fifth studio album by
English singer-songwriter
Patrick Wolf,
released on 20 June 2011 by Hideout, a
subsidiary of
Mercury Records. Formerly...
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ongoing debate about a
connection to the
ancient Roman festival of the
Lupercalia. In Gr**** mythology, Apollo's
mother Leto is
reported to have
given birth...
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certainly not
introduced by Pope
Gelasius to
suppress the
excesses of the
Lupercalia," (referencing J.P. Migne,
Missale Gothi****, 691) The 1911 Encyclopædia...
- Valentine's Day was
created as an
attempt to su****de the
pagan holiday of
Lupercalia (mid-February in Rome). This idea has
lately been
dismissed by academics...
- in 541
before slowly spreading west. The
ancient Romans celebrated the
Lupercalia in mid-February, in
honor of Lupercus, the god of
fertility and shepherds...
- Luperci, the
priests of Faunus,
celebrated certain ceremonies of the
Lupercalia at the cave, from the
earliest days of the City
until at
least 494 AD...
- animals.
Every year on 15
February in
honor of him, the
Romans held the
Lupercalia. He was an
ancient Italian god,
worshipped by
shepherds as the promoter...
- sole
source for
identifying Inuus as the form of
Faunus for whom the
Lupercalia was celebrated: "naked
young men
would run
around venerating Lycaean Pan...
