~ or should I say Valentine's? Yeah, so, the lovey day is officially tomorrow, but I thought it'd be more interesting to talk a little bit about Lupercalia, the Before-Valentines Valentine's Day. Taken from history.com, this is an interesting look about the chocolate and flower-filled day before it was full of flowers or chocolate:
To begin the ( Read more... )

~ as it's already the 3rd, which is Japan's lovely kicking out of bad demons with beans, is the festival of Candlemas on the 2nd which could very well be taken from Imbolc:
"Why do we in this feast carry candles? Because the Gentiles dedicated the month of February to the infernal gods, and as at the beginning of it Pluto stole Proserpine, and her ( Read more... )

Against my better judgment I left my place today in search of the Genji Monogatori exhibition at the Kyoto Museum and I found it together with my friend Alicia.
To all who have never heard of The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu it is a wonderfully long novel written in the early eleventh century. Some even claim it was one of the first (if ( Read more... )