From Lupercalia's odd matchmaking to Carthaginian child sacrifice, these customs of ancient festivals once defined festivities in ways you never imagined.
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Valentine`s Day in Japan – the long road from the Roman Lupercalia to BARENTINE
13 February, 2021
Last minute Valentine shopping in Tsukuba. In Japan it is the custom for woman to give chocolates to men on Valentine`s Day, while the men make a return gift a month later – on what is called “White Day”
By Avi landau
It always intrigues me how certain bits of cultural material can TRANSFORM over time, sometimes after having been carried to new environments, borne by the winds and currents of history. These metamorphoses remind me of the game called DENGON GEIMU (伝言ゲイム) in Japanese (I can’t recall the English name at the moment- the Telegraph Game….. Chinese whispers?) in which two or more teams form their own lines and the referee whispers a word or phase to the person at the head of each line. This then has to be passed down to each team-mate by whispering into the next person-in-line’s ear. It is always amusing to hear how the original words ha