[conspire] Seasonal observance

[Tony Godshall]

and don't forget to start with your salted mealcakes, prepared by the
Vestal Virgins.


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Happy Lupercalia!
>
> To better uphold tradition on this day of feasting and purification, you
> should arrange for your priests to sacrifice a male goat and a dog, hold
> the obvious sacrificial feast, and cut the victims' skin into thongs,
> and, then you should, naked or near naked, run counterclockwise around
> Palatine Hill as Plutarch describes:
>
>   Many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down
>   through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they
>   meet with shaggy thongs.  And many women of rank also purposely get in
>   their way, and like children at school present their hands to be
>   struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery,
>   and the barren to pregnancy.
>
> See?  Think of the children.
>
>
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