Paganism
Saints, love, chocolate, and goatskins: How we got from Lupercalia to Valentine’s Day
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We review the Pagan and not-so-Pagan history of the Valentine’s Day holiday, right down to the goat-skin loin clothes.
The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/rome)
We review the Pagan and not-so-Pagan history of the Valentine’s Day holiday, right down to the goat-skin loin clothes.
New archeological research shows that Rome’s conversion to Christianity was a more gradual process.
Researchers find Roman temples in modem-day Germany with a sacrificial space that raise questions about the nature of offerings to the gods and spirits.
Io Saturnalia! The holiday is well underway in many quarters including the UK and and especially in Rome.
Archeologists find 2,000 year-old graves in Paris during the building of a train station expansion near Notre Dame Cathedral.