Valentine's Day and Lupercalia: the Roman Spanking Festival!
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- Happy Valentine's, Galentine's, Palentine's, or whatever the heck else kind of Alentine's you may be celebrating! Love and roasting goat flesh are in the air as we look at how St Valentine became a patron saint of lovers, when and what St Valentine's Day has been over the centuries, and what it has to do with Romulus and Remus, Satan, and whipping pregnant women with the shredded flesh of a goat!
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Jimmy - "And tomorrow is..."
Me - "Half-priced chocolate day!"
Jimmy - "Lupercalia!"
I'll just take it as the Romans celebrating half-priced chocolate day. Who knows what a group of priests drunk on wine would have been up to... Probably binging half-priced chocolate/sweets.
I can get behind that 100%
I was just in the supermarkt. No half-priced chocolate anywhere. Outrageous!
@@DanielledeVreede Terrible! I went to the bakery and bought half-priced day old heart shaped chocolate cookies. Maybe try a bakery?
A Lupercalia poem:
Sticks and stones
May break my bones;
But whips and chains
Turn me on.
---Lupercalia Priesthood
S&M - Rihanna
Ah yes, That classic stanza written in 47BC by Fentia Rihanna
Seconded, motion carries❣
@@cypherfuncmore like 247 CE
I'm sorry editing Jimmy is feeling stressed, Give yourself some chocolates; nothing wrong with showing yourself some love. 💝 🐺🐐👬
The secret outro… 🤣, Max Miller for Tasting History just did Lupercalia on his Chanel too, he’s got some more cool history stuff about that if anyone is interested.
You beat me to it! I was going to suggest Max's channel, too. 🤗🖖❤️
I lve max's stuff. I would love if jimmy could do a collab on some traditional welsh food, maybe he could do the history talking section so he wouldn't have to fly over.
I just scrolled down to the comments to see if any satanists had left any comments. 'Share and share alike..." I can't be the only curious one, lol!
New camera is looking good ! Somehow makes your eyes pop more than the old one, or it might just be the lighting ? In any case, eyes good.
Also, Claudius is looking *fine* on that coin. Often times paintings and profiles and human representations look almost inhuman, you can clearly see it's a face, but you struggle to make the shapes correspond to an actual flesh and bones human face. But every once in a while you stumble upon this portrait that just oozes humanity, where the shapes are true are recognizable as being someone, just like all the people we've seen in our lives. And the profile on this coin looks just so human.
Edit : congratulations on the 40k ! It seems like only yesterday that baby Jimmy was toddling on these grounds, getting his first thousand subscribers *wipes away tear*
Here's to 40k more !
I thought he did something to his eyebrows, but your explanation makes more sense! It does look good
"It's a bit confusing. A lot of it is made up" Ah, yes. My favourite part of history.
I was so surprised when I realised I knew of lupercalia. I had a "wait a minute, this sounds familiar"-moment. Turns out Lupercalia was a thing that my DM (Dungeons & Dragons) took inspiration from when she made up a festival in a fantasy culture for a game we played once.
Here in Finland we do Friend's Day instead of Valentine's. So happy late friend's day wishes!
Let's bring back the spanking holiday. Sounds like the best way to get banned from the outback steakhouse.
Eff christian martyrs, bad poetry, commercialism, waxy over packaged chocolate, the diamond industry, out of season flowers flown overnight across the world, and the implication that if you’re not in a relationship you’re missing out…
I’m going to continue to celebrate Heart-shaped pancakes day. Because even if they’re lopsided, they’re still pancakes :)
Just say they're more like an anatomical heart!
@@AstheCrowTries Excellent plan!
Sometimes I wonder how super-Christian saints like Valentine would feel about their names being post-mortem-ly attached to a whole bunch o' pre martial banging. I guess at least people remember you!
I mean, pre-martial banging sounds quite interesting 😉 More interesting than premarital banging, I'll tell you that.
@CrisSelene definitely more in line with mediaeval self scourging practices approved by the Church.
TST satanist almost a year late but Lupercalia is one of our holidays so I’ll share a little about it. I’m not sure if anyone else has so far but oh well. Lupercalia is the first religious holiday of the year celebrated on February 15th. It’s a celebration of bodily autonomy, sexual liberation, and reproduction, also known as a hail yourself day. The 13th and 14th are feast days leading up to the holiday, and on the 15th, you celebrate yourself! For most people that would mean sex, as it’s part of the holiday, but as I’m asexual, I really just do whatever I enjoy doing to treat myself
Talk about miracles! St Valentine not only cured Julia's blindness, but she gained literacy along with her eyesight! Oh, those saints :) Miraculous for being....well, miraculous.
" . . . for men who ere to CRAP at poetry to write their own . . . " - The Welsh Viking
"I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" - Elizabeth Bennet.
Honestly, props to Valentine for sticking to his guns of religious conviction and having the balls to tell the ROMAN EMPEROR to change his religion
His argument was not illogical . . . which is a miracle in its own right!
Yeah, looks totally not invented by a later christian scholar. Great guy, five out of five crosses!
@@dariuslateralus7128 I don't care. A ballsy guy is a ballsy guy, fictional or real.
There's no perhaps it's a curse upon him just like it's a curse upon all Christians who rebelled and hate the real gods for a fake one false god name yahweh and all his all his Sshiittttt
@@timothyissler3815buddy you're going to have to care because it affects you and it puts you in your place if you get proved wrong you'll get exposed and put to shame and broken and torn down into fire like every idiot out there so you best care or else you're going to be smashed and destroyed.
sending love to editing Jimmy, because everyone should have some. especially editing Jimmy.
It is Sts Cyril and Methodius. There’s a limerick that goes around my Czech Catholic circles every years that goes “Violets are blue, Roses are odorous, will you be my Cyril and Methodius?”
Aaaah I love this!
I'm so confused. My hometown parish church had St. Valentine as one of its patrons and the big celebration was always around Feb 14.
@@Celebrinthal A lot of Czechs immigrated to my part of Texas and Sts. Cyril and Methodius are a big deal to Czechs and other Slavs on account of they played a big part in converting them to Christianity, brought written language by creating the predecessor to the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy into Old Church Slavonic.
Happy Valentines Day everyone :) Lupercalia sounds like a blast! I'm sure there are plenty of people looking for getting their bee hinds whipped tonight after a nice dinner. Might as well make tomorrow a holiday too!. I'm sure Hallmark will be more than eager to make a card or two for the occasion ;)
Looks like history written by church to give merits for its pillaging
I had to come on and say I like the little anatomically correct hearts in your thumbnail. Here in New Zealand it's already the 15th and I have a day off work, so now all I have to do is track down a goat, shouldn't be too tricky.
There's this quaint old Danish February tradition - fastelavnsris - where people will make whips out of bunches of young branches and decorate them. It started as a fertility ritual with some actual whipping happening but these days it's just fun for the kids.
I never knew anything about Roman Festival Lupercalia which sounds like fun! 😉 it could be something that could be very popular in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. 😮😂
You’ve never actually been to New Orleans?
Spanking is a part of bayou Mardi Gras. Very ancient. Whips are a Saturday night in NOLA.
@@elizabethclaiborne6461 oh but I have been to Mardi Gras many times in years past and participated and marched in many of the parades. I am also aware of various traditions in some places in SE La in some communities which have evolved different traditions including horseback riders, chickens, and also young kids getting chased by Masked Mardi Gras Revelers (in good fun of course) and yes there are also lots of risqué and adult activities surrounding the Mardi Gras celebrations in and around the New Orleans area. “Laissez les bons temps rouler"
*books flights immediately*
When he explained Lupercalia, it immediately reminded me of the Carnaval in La Vega in the Dominican Republic, where a distinctive part of the celebrations are the costumed devils whipping everyone with animal bladders, in the name of 'beating the evil out of them'. Also most years the dates of this fall in February.
Similarity is not necessarily mean causation, but I wonder......
@@caneidances8929 In PR we have a very similar thing with the Vejigantes. It apparently came frome a medieval Spanish folk celebration but I wouldn't be surprised if it's derivative of the Lupercalia, given how widespread and popular it was in the empire.
One can see why they are constantly confused. They are both about fertility, getting laid, just in somewhat different ways.
I need some cards with naked dudes with whips to send for valentine's day. Hallmark is missing an opportunity here.
Claudius Gothicus - one of my fave Emperors, mostly due to the name! Lupercalia is also always super fun to hear about. Thank you for making this!! Much love to you and especially to Editing Jimmy! ♥
Honestly if someone just gave me that name without any explanation or limitation stating it's a real person and I had to guess who he is I would have considered him some dude from Warhammer 40k... Some planetary govener or ecclisiarch xD
For myself and my husband, our only Valentines tradition is to recite Chaucer, and other Middle English, together because we're nerds like that
oke but "get naked get whipped" is going to be stuck in my head for at least a weak now.....
Running around naked this time is year seems like a bad idea, from my Nordic perspective, as it seems like a good way to get frostbite and/or gravel burns on your tender bits (my local area currently feels like I've massive gritted ice field)...
It seems much more appealing in the Roman setting 😄
Was thinking the same thing. It's 11 degrees here in Upstate NY. Fahrenheit.
I love when the school of Jimmy is open! Thank you again.
Tomorrow is my favourite holiday too!
It's discount on all of the chocolates day!
‘The Goth Claudius’ - damnit Jimmy, now I’m imagining he looked like Derek Jacobi in mascara. 😝
“The Hallmark Holiday we all know and love” - speak for yourself, sincerely someone that’s never received a Valentine’s card. 😛
~7:19 - damnit again Jimmy, was just trying to think up a Horus Lupercal joke and you go and beat me to it. 😆
Mwahaha
In the Roman Catholic Church Calendar Feb 14 is the Feast of Sts. Cyril & Methodius.
Heya. Been subscribed for I think over a year now. You have legit one of THE most informative channels here on YT regarding history. specifically the subjects I happen to find most interesting. And the quality of your channel is getting a lot better without taking away from the humble vibe you give. Keep at it. Your fans aren't going anywhere. But the end of this video here, I thinks you have been into your medieval Scandinavian ale recipe a bit heavy there lol. I haven't been brave enough to try making any of my own yet. I like my meads and liquors (yes home distillation is perfectly legal in Canada so long as you don't sell it, gifting it is okay, and it is legal to accept a gift of cash, why American laws will imprison a person for life, cease their home, vehicles, and bank accounts just for distilling personal amounts of liquor is beyond me).
Holy cow! These Lupercalia traditions sound very familiar. I recently met a Slovak woman who told me about an Easter tradition in her village, where all the boys make whips and lash the women to give them health and youth. The women, in gratitude for being whipped, present the men with cakes. Perhaps this is a relic of Lupercalia?
In parts of Scandinavia Valentine's day is called "all hearts day" which is much more inclusive that the partner-version. In Finland it's more a celebrated of friendships in general. I must say I love these takes ^^
(apologies if it's been mentioned already, I skimmed and didn't see it but I can have missed!)
I loved this. thank you Jimmy and good luck Editing Jimmy. Feel better soon.
"Go and get whipped naked around the hill..." That look as your brain asks, "Wait... what is my mouth saying right now?"
Valentine, if he existed, has as little to do with the current holiday as St. Nicholas to Christmas. Celebrate if you choose, but don't fall for the religious aspect!
You do know St nick is a big Christmas thing in the low countries right?
@@darnokthemage170 I do, but he threw some money over the wall for dowries.Splain me little children?
Hairy goat whips! I'll stick with chocolates. Wine sounds good though.
I am a practicing Satanist but not in the Atheistic sense I don't really have any loyalty to any church other then my own. I have adopted Lupercalia loosely into my practices but I relate it to the mythical werewolf and just wolves in general.
Valentine's Day being over just means it's one day closer to Halloween. Another wonderfully fun video. Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours, Jimmy.
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️ i always find your videos very interesting and comforting, keep on going :)
last time I was this early, caesar was being offered some kind of crown
Wheyyyy!
What you are seeing over my shoulder is my tardigrade stuffy.
Dear Jimmy (& Editing Jimmy 😉)
I love your videos so much & this was a much needed bit of fun. Had a good giggle at the get naked & whipped bit, I’m sure there is a bit of that going on every Valentine’s Day anyway… 😁
as ancient Roman isn’t (yet) my area of study I didn’t know about Lupercalia, it’s very interesting & it makes sense that it would be a fertility festival (there are a lot of those in Spring).
It’s was cool hearing where February comes from, I love finding out those historical tidbits. Sending you lots of love & hope the stress eases.
I just sat through the jurassic park trailer to earn this knowledge 💛 I hope u know how much we love u and ur channel jimmy/editing jimmy (even if the swishy ponytail is gone) lol
Jimmy in very tight close-up 😳 Thanks for another entertaining and informative video.
Awww, I’m sad that Editing Jimmy feels no love. :( Sending you plenty of platonic parasocial love Editing Jimmy!
Your 😄 openning grin reminds me of my (now adult) son when he was age 4 and up to no good but trying to look cute and innocent. 🤣🤣🤣
Jimmy when are you doing your destruction of “Vikings” Valhalla. I’m struggling with it already, not just from the absolute fantasy world the vaguely historical characters inhabit, but the terrible writing.
New camera looks absolutely lovely!
Valentines day is simple. It's a day we set aside to appreciate British ww2 infantry tanks.
Tildas!!
I prefer Saint Dwynwyn’s Day, January 25th - also Robbie Burns Day
Well.. Cupid does rhyme with stupid. 😉Thank you once again for making sure those retroactive convenient rewriters of history get a sound spanking. 😂🥰👋
Stupid is the guy who denies Cupid. 😊
I remember reading once that The Parliament of Foules could have actually been in May, the feast day of St. Valentine of Genoa. May also sounds more suitably spring-y, so it is a possibility, but a rather funny one I think, if it's been interpreted and popularised in February for the last, oh, 600-odd years, just because someone got their Valentines mixed up.
Thanks for the video, and I hope Editing Jimmy's stress lessens!
Wait, what good would a note do? If Julia had been blind, when did she have time to learn to read? Guys this sounds a bit dodgy
Oh so that's the reason kids in Denmark are using birch branches to smack grown-ups on the day before Lent.
Everyone discussing Lupercalia on the youtubes is using the *MAGICAL* Aldborough wolf mosaic as an image, which is fantastic.
Although to celebrate Valentine's Day in our house, we hang a be-flower crowned fake skull in our kitchen as an homage to the man himself (and webcomics). And then we don't take it down.... uh... everyday is St. Valentine's Day?
Thank you for sharing, as always. May Editing Jimmy have found time for well deserved rest. This was hilarious 😆
He got some down time before he was put back on the Wheel of Pain!
@@TheWelshViking was thinking of trying my hand at making a video myself, but the thought of editing makes me cringe lol
Sounds fun, but I really don't want to increase my fertility at this point. 😅
It's very funny that once again dealing with folklore, we can see that when finding the original story we find more then one person named after the main character of the folklore. Love it. Well done on this video man, myself and the wife loved it.
Does anyone else think that Jimmy forgot about Valentine’s Day -and had to dash to the local BP garage to get a cheap card, some yesterday’s bucket flowers and an ‘on-sale’ Terry’s Chocolate Orange…. 😉
Oh mate, I'm a master of the subtle art of ordering stuff a month ahead;)
And the Choc orange is a Christmas leftover!
That is absolutely hilarious! Thank you for the history lesson. Lupercalia sounds like good times! xD
Ah! So now's the time for rumpy-pumpy? I shall get right on that.
This was absolutely wonderful, thank you! ♥♥♥
Rad video. Absolutely love ur content. Much respect 💚✊💚
Thanks Robb, that is super nice of you!
@@TheWelshViking jeepahs creepahs!! I never thought You’d reply!!! Thank you! Just found ur channel last fall and love ur content. One of the best channels out here. Thank you for the work, mixing humor with history is rad. Appreciate what u r doing.
new camera looks great! the lighting is making your bookshelf in the background look especially cozy. I hadn't actually even heard of Lupercalia before, so this was super informative!
You had me at spanking.
I thought you said lupercallia had nothing to do with valentine's day! Running around naked with whips then getting hammered does that not describe valentine's day. PS if you're going to do the running around naked bit Jimmy you are banned from Orkney 🤣🤣
I never knew that; thank you.
I’m learning so much here, amazing❣️
But I did get truffles already so I’m good, ha!! ❤️ have a lovely Valentine’s Day Jimmy, you deserve all the best🥰
I legit thought you said "Punification festival" instead of "purification" and I was like "I don't think the Lupercalia was Carthaginian tho???" RIP my audio/verbal comprehension
Your Italian is very good! great job. PS: love you too, love you all.
I used to work at a jewelry counter… Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day were the WORST! Mostly because we’d be super busy, but higher management never had the foresight to flippin’ PLAN for it! And customers would be really upset when we sold out of the jewelry they wanted… when they were trying to buy the evening before or sometimes even the DAY OF Valentine’s Day. I also got SOOOO tired of ringing up chocolate, stuffed animal, flowers, and cards and sometimes a piece of jewelry. Every. Single. Man. (and sorry, it was always men) bought this combo.
But! Not trying to be super negative. I actually love Valentine’s Day and just wish I had someone to spend it with. ❤
The lighting in this one is so warm and pretty; the new camera is definitely doing good things!
Anyway, thanks for the lovely message.
Fun links:
St. Valentine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine
Sts Cyril & Methodius en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_Cyril_and_Methodius
USCCB calendar www.usccb.org/resources/2022cal.pdf
Roman Martyrology en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Martyrology
Enjoy your roasted goat tomorrow everyone!
On February 24th, in Romania, we have a local love festival called Dragobete. Chaucer placing St Valentine's one week later pinged in my head "that sounds familiar"
I heard the funniest story on tumblr about someone who believed that the story of St. Valentine was about a gay polycule. They understood the phrase "marrying all the young" men in the direct way and not the performing marriages for young men and their sweeties. :)
You love us! (Ref to description) bringing us Lupercalia (and a little doubt for Valentine's) our faves :)
LOVE FOR EDITING JIMMY! (And all the Jimmies... Jimmys?)
The new camera looks good; as soon as the video started rolling I was wondering what new equipment you were using. Everything looks more well-defined. Shout-out to editing Jimmy for putting that camera model note in!
I knew bits and pieces of the history of (St.) Valentine's Day, but learned a lot--thank you! Lupercalia is always fun to hear about (except when people are insisting that Valentine's was come up with to replace Lupercalia...)
gEt NaKeD, gEt WhiPeD, gEt nAkeD, gEt WhIpEd, LUPERCALIA
This was great. The more I learn about history and see the myths get debunked, the less I realise I know about the world
the first day of spring is early Feb, Imbolc. Ostara, the Equinox, is mid-spring. Solarally speaking. :)
I got distracted by the Theodosius coin... is that an ANIME EYE???????? The romans did basically invent everything, i see
Seeming Spring starts the beginning of February, all of February is the first month of Spring and thus the beginning of Spring.
Not quite sure what Police Scotland would make of Lupercalia celebrations around Arthur's Seat...! Maybe save it for Beltane ;-)
You said Luperci and a line from The Happy Wanderer sprang to mind: Luperci, Luperca, Luperci, Luperca-ha-ha-ha-ha-lia. Completely unrelated until now, you're welcome. Also, your scronched up face of side-eye suspicion is wonderful.
When the "*metal riff" note popped up, I though of Ex Deo, naturally. But they haven't written a song about Lupercalia to my knowledge. Not yet...
If you don't know about Ex Deo they're a metal band that instead of songs about Vikings, they do songs about romans. Of course, they certainly wear silly "Roman" costumes on stage. I think they're neat.
12:38 *hits 'pause' and rushes outside, tearing her clothes off* whoop! ^o^
12:39 *staggers in, covered in red welts, and hits 'play'* aw, what?! >.
"All Completely wrong, but it catches on" - Pretty much every traditional festival
Naked and whipped on a hillside...tell me more about these Romans! Happy Lupercalia Jimmy. :)
Minute 1:34 “don’t worry, there’s nothing over your shoulder-except that thing, you should get that thing seen to” ; cue my books randomly falling 😂
valentines: the hallmark holiday we all know and.... HATE! I think hate was the word you were looking for! ;)
RE: start of spring and calendars, in fairness, Irish tradition marks Imbolc (Feb 2nd) as the start of spring.
Central European here! Men whip women by willow whips adorned with ribbons on Easter for health, beauty and fertility. And they like to dunk us in the water or use parfumes as a substitute.
According to our head of Comparative religions department, people in Ancient Greek cult dedicated to Artemis used to do the same! Difference - the guys were whipped, not women. To be potent, of course. Heard that in Norway people get whipped by bunch of wheat on some spring festival.
So, today I can slap people to celebrate lupercalia? Sounds like a lot of fun!
Watching this on Lupercalia/discount chocolate day.
Bit cold round here to follow your suggestions :p but that's probably part of the point : p
Love you :D
My Birthday is on Lupercalia!
Jimmie: "it's 700 lines long."
Me: "fkn Chaucer smh"
I feel like Washington DC would be a good place to begin the ritual purification.
Happy Valentine's day and Lupercalia, and don't forget the rum and whip!
To paraphrase a certain Doctor - I think that last sentence got away from you a bit! ^*^
Awww we love you too Jimmy! Keep up the good work (and the very good looking new setting)