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As Valentine's Day's approaching, my local churches have some offical/unoffical celebration. I felt our people need more education whatever the case may be.
So I'm posting my notes on the subject here. I did not make any personal comments. Everything was quoted from somewhere else.
St. Valentines Day: a day that has been dedicated since the 14th century to lovers. Valentines Day is traditionally observed by the sending of messages and gifts, usually employing the motif of a red heart, by young men and women. One tradition derives the customs of the day from the old Roman February feast called the Lupercalia, at which young men and maidens drew partners by lot for the coming February feast. Later this ancient festival custom was associated with the name of a Christian bishop, Valentine, who was martyred Feb. 14, 271. Other tradition attributes the observances of the day to the fact that it falls within the mating season for birds and is, therefore, an appropriate season for young people to choose their "valentines," or lovers. ---- Colliers Encyclopedia, Volume 12, page 191.
Of the several saints named Valentine, the most important were a Roman priest and a bishop of Terni, both of whom were executed in Rome in the third century. That their feast day is also the day set aside for lovers seems to be merely a coincidence. The Roman festival Lupercalia, which occurred on February 15, may be related to the modern celebration. --- Comptons Pictured Encyclopedia, Volume 13, page 12.
The word valentine is derived from valorentine.
Valorentine was a common Roman name, which Roman parents often gave to their children in honor of the famous man who was FIRST called valiant: Valentine, in antiquity, Lupercus, The Hunter. --- A Dictionary of Symbols, by J.E. Cirlot, 1983, page 375.
The Romans identified Lupercus with Faunus, a god of nature. The Greeks called this nature god: Pan.The Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Symbol.
Lupercus, Faunus, Pan, Osiris are some of the many names for Tammus or Nimrod.
Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the might hunter before the lord.
Baal, the sun god was the title for Nimrod, the son deity.
From the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, pages 21-25:
That son, though represented as a child in his mothers arms, was a person of great stature and immense bodily powers, as well as most fascinating manners. In Scripture he is referred to (Ezek. viii. 14) under the name of Tammuz, "The Lamented one." , but it is now well known, that amid all the abominations that attended his orgies, their grand design was professedly "the purification of souls," and that from the guilt and defilement of sin. This lamented one, exhibited and adored as a little child in his mothers arms, seems, in point of fact, to have been the husband of Semiramis, whose name, Ninus, by which he is commonly known in classical history, literally signified "The Son."
"As Semiramis, the wife, was worshipped as Rhea, whose grand distinguishing character was that of the great goddess "Mother," the conjunction with her of her husband, under the name Ninus, or "The Son," was sufficient to originate the peculiar worship of the "Mother and Son," so extensively diffused among the nations of antiquity; and this, no doubt, is the explanation of the fact which has so much puzzled the inquirers into ancient history, that Ninus is sometimes called the husband, and sometimes the son of Semiramis.
"Now, assuming that Ninus is Nimrod, the way in which that assumption explains what is otherwise inexplicable in the statements of ancient history greatly confirms the truth of that assumption itself. Ninus is said to have been the son of Belus or Bel, and Bel is said to have been the founder of Babylon.
Cupid was one of the gods of Mythology, whose name in Latin means "desire." He is usually represented as a chubby, naked, winged boy...with a quiver of arrows by which he transfixed the hearts of youths and maidens. His darts, some of which were poisonous at the tip, could pierce anywhere.
The rose, which speaks of love, is undoubtedly the most popular flower in the world. By rearranging the letters in the word "rose," we get "Eros" the god of Love. This may explain why it has always been called the flower of romance, the choice of lovers in every century."
"The first criterion in this Fertility hunt is erotic desire, which cupid and eros represent! In Mythology, it is said when Nimrods Mother saw him as a young boy, she desired him! Nimrod became her cupid, her desired one, and later became her god of valor". --- The Book of Festival Holidays, by Marguerite Ickis, 1964, page 35.
Furthermore, the heart that is exchanged in heart-shaped candies and greeting cards also comes from pagan worship. From Strongs Hebrew concordance: the Hebrew word for heart is the same word for Baal in Chaldee.
Illustrated here:
So I'm posting my notes on the subject here. I did not make any personal comments. Everything was quoted from somewhere else.
Valentines Day
St. Valentines Day: a day that has been dedicated since the 14th century to lovers. Valentines Day is traditionally observed by the sending of messages and gifts, usually employing the motif of a red heart, by young men and women. One tradition derives the customs of the day from the old Roman February feast called the Lupercalia, at which young men and maidens drew partners by lot for the coming February feast. Later this ancient festival custom was associated with the name of a Christian bishop, Valentine, who was martyred Feb. 14, 271. Other tradition attributes the observances of the day to the fact that it falls within the mating season for birds and is, therefore, an appropriate season for young people to choose their "valentines," or lovers. ---- Colliers Encyclopedia, Volume 12, page 191.
Of the several saints named Valentine, the most important were a Roman priest and a bishop of Terni, both of whom were executed in Rome in the third century. That their feast day is also the day set aside for lovers seems to be merely a coincidence. The Roman festival Lupercalia, which occurred on February 15, may be related to the modern celebration. --- Comptons Pictured Encyclopedia, Volume 13, page 12.
The word valentine is derived from valorentine.
Valorentine was a common Roman name, which Roman parents often gave to their children in honor of the famous man who was FIRST called valiant: Valentine, in antiquity, Lupercus, The Hunter. --- A Dictionary of Symbols, by J.E. Cirlot, 1983, page 375.
The Romans identified Lupercus with Faunus, a god of nature. The Greeks called this nature god: Pan.The Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Symbol.
Lupercus, Faunus, Pan, Osiris are some of the many names for Tammus or Nimrod.
Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the might hunter before the lord.
Baal, the sun god was the title for Nimrod, the son deity.
From the book The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, pages 21-25:
That son, though represented as a child in his mothers arms, was a person of great stature and immense bodily powers, as well as most fascinating manners. In Scripture he is referred to (Ezek. viii. 14) under the name of Tammuz, "The Lamented one." , but it is now well known, that amid all the abominations that attended his orgies, their grand design was professedly "the purification of souls," and that from the guilt and defilement of sin. This lamented one, exhibited and adored as a little child in his mothers arms, seems, in point of fact, to have been the husband of Semiramis, whose name, Ninus, by which he is commonly known in classical history, literally signified "The Son."
"As Semiramis, the wife, was worshipped as Rhea, whose grand distinguishing character was that of the great goddess "Mother," the conjunction with her of her husband, under the name Ninus, or "The Son," was sufficient to originate the peculiar worship of the "Mother and Son," so extensively diffused among the nations of antiquity; and this, no doubt, is the explanation of the fact which has so much puzzled the inquirers into ancient history, that Ninus is sometimes called the husband, and sometimes the son of Semiramis.
"Now, assuming that Ninus is Nimrod, the way in which that assumption explains what is otherwise inexplicable in the statements of ancient history greatly confirms the truth of that assumption itself. Ninus is said to have been the son of Belus or Bel, and Bel is said to have been the founder of Babylon.
Cupid was one of the gods of Mythology, whose name in Latin means "desire." He is usually represented as a chubby, naked, winged boy...with a quiver of arrows by which he transfixed the hearts of youths and maidens. His darts, some of which were poisonous at the tip, could pierce anywhere.
The rose, which speaks of love, is undoubtedly the most popular flower in the world. By rearranging the letters in the word "rose," we get "Eros" the god of Love. This may explain why it has always been called the flower of romance, the choice of lovers in every century."
"The first criterion in this Fertility hunt is erotic desire, which cupid and eros represent! In Mythology, it is said when Nimrods Mother saw him as a young boy, she desired him! Nimrod became her cupid, her desired one, and later became her god of valor". --- The Book of Festival Holidays, by Marguerite Ickis, 1964, page 35.
Furthermore, the heart that is exchanged in heart-shaped candies and greeting cards also comes from pagan worship. From Strongs Hebrew concordance: the Hebrew word for heart is the same word for Baal in Chaldee.
Illustrated here:
Really makes you wonder about valentines day and whether or not one should follow it, no?
