Lupercalia: Rome's Oldest Festival #history



Lupercalia was an ancient Roman annual festival related to the founding of the city by its young male outcast brothers and the outlaws they recruited. This reflects the ancient Indo-European koryos tradition and the midwinter dog sacrifice. See the whole video now: https://youtu.be/alRlPt1zvg4?si=dFMfefLk_BwCTAoY

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19 thoughts on “Lupercalia: Rome's Oldest Festival #history”

  1. How many of these ancient festivals are really just homoerotic entertainment? I'm not judging. People can do whatever they want. That's cool. But you notice kind of a weird trend of a lot of weird sexual behavior involved with these rituals.

    Who knows maybe clothing is propaganda and we just don't know it.

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  2. Very interesting video. The Vatican is not near the Palatine Hill though, so I imagine it was done somewhere in between the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus maybe, that's the southeast side of the hill.

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  3. The boys also had whips bathed in sacrificial blood they used to whip passerbys. Women who were pregnant and wished for a safe delivery or women wishing to become pregnant would purposedly get in the way of the " luperci" so they would be hit with the sacred blood.

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