"And took off their clothes, some sources say that they fashioned loin cloths from the hides of the sacrificed goats" This got really weird. I like it.
+Marcel Deslongchamps or a dog.. or the poor child that has to witness elderly men completly nude charging around smaking people with a whip while they are all drunk off their a$$e$
In Spain we have a similar tradition! we don't go naked, but dress with grotesque clothes, and "whip" children too, but with foam or sponge maces and whips, so they can't hurt. It is amazing how many of those traditions are kept after obscuring their original meaning.
We have a similar festival called "Perchtenlauf" here in Austria. People put on demon costumes for it and hit peasants with twigs. (it actually hurts tho)
"Kurentovanje" is old slovenian festival, and right now I'm convinced that Lupercalia is it's spiritual predecessor. Only the "Kurents" are clothed in heavy sheeps skins with belts, not naked- but it makes sense, as February in Slovenia is colder thatn february in Rome.
And you clearly dont know the latin and its implications which are nothing like modern day understanding. Genitalia is not perverted there or then and even still in some cornersw of italy its not bad at all.
wowow, in my country, dominican republic, in carnaval times people go around hitting people not wearing costumes with whips and balloons made out of cow stomach, I wonder if it comes from this?! Anyway, ... damn that sounds like fun
Might be loosely related, in many western European countries we still bang pots and pans on New Years which is a practice that dates back to Lemuria, another ancient rite the Romans would perform in May to ward off evil spirits. So some practices remain, but differently nowadays like on a different holiday and without sacrifices lol Sadly all this stuff is dying out fast, my mom's generation was probably one of the last to actually take the old rituals seriously, most people nowadays just don't anymore, when i was a kid new years was an event, you'd need to wear special clothes, hold money in one hand and eat 12 raisins at midnight with the other whilst standing on a chair and then you needed to get pots and pans and bang them around the neighboorhood, it was quite fun, but those days are long gone nowadays, no one does that anymore.
Pausing at 1:57 to bring special attention to that dog again. I don't know enough about Roman religion to say for sure--most of what I've learned about Republican Rome comes from this channel, honestly, so thank you very much--but in Greek myths, the dog was Ares's animal. And if Romulus and Remus were descended from Mars, then this once-yearly sacrifice to Mars's descendants makes sense to me in that spirit, as well.
According to a certain myth it's also said that a dog was being offered because it failed in warning the sleeping Hercules against a demigod in its attack against him. Supposedly Hercules won the fight nevertheless.
Thanks for the video! Just giving you a heads up that another youtube user, Scarlet Ravenswood, has recently taken the content of this video and represented it almost word for word as her own in a video called "All about Lupercalia: The Pagan Origins of Valentine's Day," with a request for people to donate to her own Patreon. I don't know if it bothers you or if there's even anything you can do, but I wanted to let you know it was happening.
This festival sounds hilarious! I could actually see myself as a drunk pesant trying my damndest to not try too hard to get hit by a whip. By a crazy AND drunk old man no less!
In the Czech Republic and some other western Slavic countries men make whips from osier and "whip" women on their bottom on Easter Monday for fertility. Alcohol is of course included. This is crazy similar.
conor henderson WHAT HERESY! THE EMPEROR IS THE EMBODIMENT OF MAN! HE IS OUR PROTECTOR AND OUR GUIDE! YOU WILL NOT SLANDER HIS NAME! YOU WILL LEARN YOUR PLACE, HERETIC! YOUR PLACE ON THE BURNING STAKE!
Romans did had another weird festival conmemorating the first gallic invasion and it's plunderng on rome. Where they would sit a goose in cushions (the one that alerted from gallics the capitol and saved it) and crucify a couple dogs in front of him (the ones that failed to alert the attack).
Als Südwesten der Vereinigten Staaten wird eine Region der Vereinigten Staaten bezeichnet. Die Abgrenzung zum Mittleren Westen, der Westküste, den Mountain States und den Südstaaten ist unscharf, je nach Verwendung werden unterschiedliche Teile der USA zum Südwesten gerechnet.
With the exception of those guys being naked, this sounds pretty much like how Krampus is celebrated in rural Austria (and yes, the hits hurt. A lot. But it's a blast anyway xD)
Wait... In Costa Rica we have something similar to this... I mean, we use pig bladders inflated like balloons to run people trying to hit them. It doesn't hurt but the smell and texture of the blader scare the people, especially children.
Have you ever heard of Saturnalia? a Roman holiday celebrating Saturn, from around 150 A.D. can you do a video about it, I don't know much but from what I heard it was pretty wild
Seems like any goat or dog sacrificed during that holiday would have had a much better life than they do generally today, the gods didn't like scraps they wanted the best available.
Such mixed information on what they wore, or didn't wear, from the time it was actually celebrated seems to obviously mean it varied. Whether by the individual or the location or something, it clearly wasn't set in stone that they had to be either naked or in loincloths.
Reminds me a bit of how we celebrate Easter in Slovakia. Typically men go around whipping women and drinking whilst doing so, usually getting a shot of homemade liquor as a sort of reward. Younger boys also do this, however they are rewarded with sweets or money in some cases. It is also common for women to be dunked in water or have water thrown on them in some fashion. No, I am not making this up, look it up if you must. Source: me (I've had an interesting childhood).
Also, from my version of "Plutarch's Lives" (from which you are getting this info), it says(seems pretty clearly to read) that *only the two consecrated youths* (representing Romulus and Remus) run around in loincloths whipping people -which, indeed, makes far more sense: why would RANDO'S, priests or not, present power and fertility to those they encountered? As opposed to those hit by (the stand-ins for) Romulus and Remus? Your interpretation is definitely way more fun, but makes less sense 🤔.
I thought you would just use a small square instead of a baby.
"And took off their clothes, some sources say that they fashioned loin cloths from the hides of the sacrificed goats" This got really weird. I like it.
Seiban Imagine the ancient Romans seeing some of the things that we do, I'm sure that would have seemed just as weird to them
Yeah, pretty much.
Shut up edgy athiedt
@@bl1tz533 shut up thiedt
Lol
Lupercalia just sounds like good clean fun.
+Yossi Lipton unless you're a goat
+Marcel Deslongchamps or a dog..
or the poor child that has to witness elderly men completly nude charging around smaking people with a whip while they are all drunk off their a$$e$
Yossi Lipton "you ever see a grown man naked?"
scipio barca what makes you think Roman priests were elderly?
dimes- Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
"You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse. WAS THIS AMBITION??"
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. And, sure, he is an honorable man.
HEY MARK! Where the fuck did you "just happened" to find a crown?
@@koatam did you just happen to find it on the ground or did you bring one from home?
Let's adopt this to modern society! It can be our new valentines day!
Weird... That's how we do it in England.
+Adam Collins (Test) O_o
Chris Yes please. Being single won't hurt so much.
Don't act as if we Cheeseheads are not notorious for our kinky ways.
THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!!! I DO LOVE A GOOD CHASE!
We had this exact same ceremony when I pledged my frat in college.
including the dog?
@@eliteexpression I was there, we used two dogs just to dunk on the romans
This needs to be brought back, would at give the proud people of Rome a piece of lost culture and would most likely attract tourists.
+Dean Goldenstar tourists or terrorists?
+The Uncommon Nightingale Sorry, but I don't follow..
And Mardi Gras down in NOLA is that much different? Same crazy shit, different venue.
Hypersensitive PETA would make a fake Cooking Mama game to disagree
Psionic Mango Skip the dog and just have the goats come fresh from slaughter houses.
From slideshow-like squares to smooth, well-animated squares. Amazing.
better then being chased by a bloodthirsty bull
In Spain we have a similar tradition! we don't go naked, but dress with grotesque clothes, and "whip" children too, but with foam or sponge maces and whips, so they can't hurt. It is amazing how many of those traditions are kept after obscuring their original meaning.
During the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, where I was born, they have the "cabezudos" meaning "big heads". Is that what you mean?
Same in parts of Switzerland =)
we have something like that in mexico they call them "judas"
We have a similar festival called "Perchtenlauf" here in Austria. People put on demon costumes for it and hit peasants with twigs.
(it actually hurts tho)
Lupercalia: Clearly a holiday for BDSM enthusiasts.
"Kurentovanje" is old slovenian festival, and right now I'm convinced that Lupercalia is it's spiritual predecessor. Only the "Kurents" are clothed in heavy sheeps skins with belts, not naked- but it makes sense, as February in Slovenia is colder thatn february in Rome.
Its roots actually date back to Indo-European times so it's also possible they both stem from the same successor.
@@Brabour me and your mom stem from the same ancestor
Lupercalia, Saturnalia, Genitalia... those Roman festival names are getting out of hand.
Woooosh
Lupercalia... lubricalia... lubricating
😂😂😂
And you clearly dont know the latin and its implications which are nothing like modern day understanding. Genitalia is not perverted there or then and even still in some cornersw of italy its not bad at all.
It does make a lot of sense for fertility festivals to take place mid february, as most babies are born in the latter months of the year sep/oct/nov
ERRBODY IN THE CAVE GETTIN TIPSY
*errbody in the cave gettin tipsy*
FOR THE WARMASTER! LUPERCAL! LUPERCAL!
sounds kinky
wowow, in my country, dominican republic, in carnaval times people go around hitting people not wearing costumes with whips and balloons made out of cow stomach, I wonder if it comes from this?! Anyway, ... damn that sounds like fun
Nice Afro
That would be a yes because those festivals were brought to that island by European colonizers.
Might be loosely related, in many western European countries we still bang pots and pans on New Years which is a practice that dates back to Lemuria, another ancient rite the Romans would perform in May to ward off evil spirits. So some practices remain, but differently nowadays like on a different holiday and without sacrifices lol
Sadly all this stuff is dying out fast, my mom's generation was probably one of the last to actually take the old rituals seriously, most people nowadays just don't anymore, when i was a kid new years was an event, you'd need to wear special clothes, hold money in one hand and eat 12 raisins at midnight with the other whilst standing on a chair and then you needed to get pots and pans and bang them around the neighboorhood, it was quite fun, but those days are long gone nowadays, no one does that anymore.
Pausing at 1:57 to bring special attention to that dog again. I don't know enough about Roman religion to say for sure--most of what I've learned about Republican Rome comes from this channel, honestly, so thank you very much--but in Greek myths, the dog was Ares's animal. And if Romulus and Remus were descended from Mars, then this once-yearly sacrifice to Mars's descendants makes sense to me in that spirit, as well.
those people knew how to live..
According to a certain myth it's also said that a dog was being offered because it failed in warning the sleeping Hercules against a demigod in its attack against him. Supposedly Hercules won the fight nevertheless.
love that ending summary. lol
Do we know if Tribune Aquila approved of this Holiday?
I guess that makes the Fabii are Fabious!
Keegan Oliver More like fabulous
Goat whips, nude, or mostly nude, and drunken priests are way better than roses and candy.
4:08 Honestly, I love this quote.
I feel sorry for the 1200 dogs that died and the 3600 goats.
Thanks for the video! Just giving you a heads up that another youtube user, Scarlet Ravenswood, has recently taken the content of this video and represented it almost word for word as her own in a video called "All about Lupercalia: The Pagan Origins of Valentine's Day," with a request for people to donate to her own Patreon. I don't know if it bothers you or if there's even anything you can do, but I wanted to let you know it was happening.
Yes, i literally found your comment there that led me here.
The problem isn't copying the content, say it has pagan roots just simply isn't credible historiography
@@invven2750 why not both?
So glad you eventually switched to mostly minimalist electronic music for your backing tracks later on haha
This festival sounds hilarious! I could actually see myself as a drunk pesant trying my damndest to not try too hard to get hit by a whip. By a crazy AND drunk old man no less!
Happy Lupercalia Day!
I think it would just be "Happy Lupercalia"
I invoke Rule 34
Very well.
*I invoke Soumai.*
And I call SHENANIGANS!!!
Happy Lupercalia everyone!
*A whip is designed to inflict pain*
This sounded more like a drunken wet towel fight.
John Brotherton right!
The letter I doesn’t change its sound ever…Quintili’i
In the Czech Republic and some other western Slavic countries men make whips from osier and "whip" women on their bottom on Easter Monday for fertility. Alcohol is of course included. This is crazy similar.
4:06 well when you put it like that... nah I’m good
People knew how to live back in the day.
This was well done! very informative......... and your right, "what's not to like?!" :)
*HAIL HORUS LUPERCAL, LET THE GALAXY BURN!*
Wait.. wrong Lupercalia
LUPERCAL LUPERCAL LONG LIVE HORUS!
HERESY!!!!!!!!! Prepare to be *blammed*!
conor henderson
HOW DARE YOU?! IT IS YOU WHO SHOULD REPENT!!! FOR YOU HAVE SINNED IN THE EYES OF THE EMPEROR, AND COMMITTED MOST VILE HERESY!!!
conor henderson
THE ONE AND ONLY GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND! REPENT YE HERETIC OR BE PURGED IN HIS CLEANSING FIRE!!!
conor henderson
WHAT HERESY! THE EMPEROR IS THE EMBODIMENT OF MAN! HE IS OUR PROTECTOR AND OUR GUIDE! YOU WILL NOT SLANDER HIS NAME!
YOU WILL LEARN YOUR PLACE, HERETIC! YOUR PLACE ON THE BURNING STAKE!
conor henderson
Fucking nonsense.
*Proceeds to *blam!!!* heretic*
You have now been *BLAM!!!*-ed.
Happy Lupercalia everybody!
I always misheard it as Lubricalia.
There's Officially no more HC Videos left for me to watch, POST MORE !, tnx btw
Romans did had another weird festival conmemorating the first gallic invasion and it's plunderng on rome. Where they would sit a goose in cushions (the one that alerted from gallics the capitol and saved it) and crucify a couple dogs in front of him (the ones that failed to alert the attack).
Als Südwesten der Vereinigten Staaten wird eine Region der Vereinigten Staaten bezeichnet. Die Abgrenzung zum Mittleren Westen, der Westküste, den Mountain States und den Südstaaten ist unscharf, je nach Verwendung werden unterschiedliche Teile der USA zum Südwesten gerechnet.
thanks! That was awesome.
Lupercalia, sounds Loopearcahliah. quintilli, sounds kwintillee, fabii, sounds fahbee ee!
Did everyone else get drunk or just the priests?
As part of official festival procedures, only the priests. But it was a festival day so I assume anyone who could afford to would take the excuse.
Who needs Valentine’s Day we need to bring back Lupercalia
Roman Christmas sounds awesome
Famous, drunk, naked, and hitting strange women with pieces of dead goat is no way to go through life, son.
Didn't the festival start on the 13th (with a blood sacrifice), while the actual holiday then fell on the 15th?
With the exception of those guys being naked, this sounds pretty much like how Krampus is celebrated in rural Austria (and yes, the hits hurt. A lot. But it's a blast anyway xD)
Wait... In Costa Rica we have something similar to this... I mean, we use pig bladders inflated like balloons to run people trying to hit them. It doesn't hurt but the smell and texture of the blader scare the people, especially children.
Dafaq is the music you covering rome or banjos?
LOVE that wolf.
Happy Lupercalia! Got some Goat Skin and Whips here!
Don't mind me, just passing by after watching the new vid
Welp, I know where the name "Remus Lupin" came from now...
Have you ever heard of Saturnalia? a Roman holiday celebrating Saturn, from around 150 A.D. can you do a video about it, I don't know much but from what I heard it was pretty wild
That's basically Roman-Christmas -with more wine and sex, of course.
Where you from, sayin' melk instead of milk?
AUC... really? As if there weren't enough calendars. Why go there? BC/AD or BCE/CE aren't sufficient?
"Whats not to like?" THE PART WHERE THEY MURDERED THE DOG KINDA COMES TO MIND ;_;
but you are not crying at the goats. they are animals too.
shame
Ehh. If you don't mind the goats, no reason why you would mind the dog either.
Aw, just missed it by two days and several hunderds of kilometers and centuries. :/
You'd have to be drunk in order to stay warm in the February snow. FUCK it's cold!
For the warmaster!! Let the galaxy burn!!
why does it sound like bad moon rising in the background
Valentines day is not a hallmarkian holiday.
Let's bring this back please
Fun video. Romans are indeed interexting.
I can't be a fan of anything that involves the murder of a dog.
Seems like any goat or dog sacrificed during that holiday would have had a much better life than they do generally today, the gods didn't like scraps they wanted the best available.
Holidays just aren't as good as they used to be
Such mixed information on what they wore, or didn't wear, from the time it was actually celebrated seems to obviously mean it varied. Whether by the individual or the location or something, it clearly wasn't set in stone that they had to be either naked or in loincloths.
I literally cant find a solid connection between the two (aside from the date) 😂
4:00 LMFAO
A girl asked me how I will spend this Valentine's Day. This is the answer
Reminds me a bit of how we celebrate Easter in Slovakia. Typically men go around whipping women and drinking whilst doing so, usually getting a shot of homemade liquor as a sort of reward. Younger boys also do this, however they are rewarded with sweets or money in some cases. It is also common for women to be dunked in water or have water thrown on them in some fashion. No, I am not making this up, look it up if you must. Source: me (I've had an interesting childhood).
After seeing many other Slovakian comments I believe you. And I'm seriously worried about the mental state of the western slavic countries.
i wish your videos would have that guithar music again
Happy Lupercalia!!!!!!!
F xmas. This must have been great.
Love it, please correct the spelling of Calendar
Love it. But best to stick to Latin pronunciation scheme for vowels. Otherwise it becomes confusing if the pronunciation of place names is anglicised.
Getting whipped by a whip made of recently sacrificed goat hides by half-naked men and liking it? Write your own jokes, people, don't be lazy.
Nemoralia next?
Are we all just gonna overlook the dog killing part?
+harrison Clark This was 2,000-2,500 years ago in a society which killed people for fun every day...
Context.
USA police ignores it every day...
This video should be labelled as NSFW as it features squares stripping naked. lol
It should've involved a Quintilius murdering a Fabius.
Well I mean, for me personally, the only thing not to like was the ritualistic dog sacrificing.
Lupercaliafragilisticexpialidocious
Lupercal!
the romans never sacrified dogs, but they did crucify them.
Also, from my version of "Plutarch's Lives" (from which you are getting this info), it says(seems pretty clearly to read) that *only the two consecrated youths* (representing Romulus and Remus) run around in loincloths whipping people -which, indeed, makes far more sense: why would RANDO'S, priests or not, present power and fertility to those they encountered? As opposed to those hit by (the stand-ins for) Romulus and Remus? Your interpretation is definitely way more fun, but makes less sense 🤔.
Your a Roman too, right?
Penand_Paper Nah, he isn't. He's just a historian, no "Roman" nationality exist now...
I dont like your videos.. I love them!!
Lupercalia is in 4 days.
Running around naked and drunk, whipping women? Sounds like a typical Saturday night at my house!!
Nice- a pity the mic is shit
This video is 8 years old dude, go watch some of his recent stuff if you want a better mic.
the left wants to bring this back into modern day?????? based?????
They hate women having babies so probably not