Are ghosts stuck but never to feel as they have no place to release their past existence? Thus creating a cold and spooky atmospheric environment we call a haunting, they call a hell. Are some ghosts who die such as the Fifth Avenue Ghost still in a jealous rage of love and become what my father referred to as Stay-Behinds? What propels them to still re-live those last moments speaking to the transmedium of their broken heart? I think it is safe to say that throughout history as far back as we can go, no matter what dimension we are in including humanoids, other species and life forms on other stars; that love exists eternally perhaps and is the most joyful as well as the most painful of all emotions to be felt, experienced and in existence.
So, how did we get to call it Valentine's Day? Saint Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day is a holiday on February 14. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentine's cards, donating to charity, gifting candy and flowers. The holiday is named after two men, (it figures) both Christian martyrs among the numerous early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
We all know what that was really about don't we? Men creating this heated, loving and sensual occasion only to reap the rewards as martyrs, picking up all the saviest gals around town. I have said it before and I shall say it again, my own husband in agreement that if men were to perpetuate our species having all the babies, then we as a human race would become extinct after the first male live birth! And no cheating with 'C' sections either, the natural way please. Let's face it that either way the female gives birth, it is the only way to keep the race alive. My husband happily agrees as he has witnessed four births and has no issues with leaving that at the door in 'what woman do well department.'
The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of 'valentines.' I remember the little odd shaped cards that came with little envelopes to hand out at class time. Thinking back on it now, that was a lot of undo pressure wondering how many cards one would rack up with. The least amount obviously stated how unpopular one would be. Nowadays, it's not a choice in the class rooms as they cleverly have every child make a card off the class room list and the parents over see this. Not only is this is a great writing exercise for the children, but also a great lesson as not to forget anyone whether your good friends or not. Always be kind and spread love. I feel we lose that as we age and so spirituality comes into play and the game becomes harder.
Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards and in the mid-nineteenth century; Valentine's Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the United States to follow.
'The Night of Sevens', is a Chinese holiday that also relates to love and 'White Day', is a similar holiday celebrated in Japan and Korea one month after Valentine's Day.
Then we come across February's fertility festivals though popular modern sources link random Graeco-Roman February holidays, said to be devoted to fertility and love to St. Valentine's Day. Jack Oruch showed that prior to Chaucer, no links between the Saints named Valentinus and romantic love existed. Thus whether or not in the ancient Athenian calendar, the period between mid-January and mid-February was the month of Gamelion, was dedicated to the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera is immaterial.
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