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Do you know what you are celebrating when you celebrate Valentines Day? Do you even know the origin or better yet, do you know the symbols affiliated with the holiday? Or do you just eagerly anticipate flowers, gifts, chocolates and sex? Before you rush out and spend money on something, please know the origin. With that said, I am here to help you.

If you type Saint Valentine in any search engine the results will tell you that Saint Valentine was the patron saint of lovers and that cupid was responsible for "helping" people fall in love, but that is only on the surface. About five years ago I read a book by Dr. Frances C Riesling entitled, The Isis Papers. The Isis Papers is a collection of essays written by Dr. Frances C. Riesling but the chapters that stuck out to me the most where the ones about symbols that we see everyday which have a hidden or deeper meanings to them. I said all of that to say that after reading The Isis Papers I began looking for the hidden meanings in many of the activities, structures and symbols we see in our daily or seasonal routines. Valentine's Day is no exception as this holiday is full of symbols with hidden or water down meanings. Things are never what they appear to be.

First, Saint Valentine was Roman and the Romans held celebrations called Lupercalia in February, which they deemed a time of eroticism and sex. This time is extremely similar to the wild Mardi Gras celebrations and Brazilian Carnivals. It was during these celebrations that the Romans would choose their sexual partners by drawing decorative paper cards, or billets, that bared the woman's name on it. But today, thanks to Hallmark, we call billets Valentine's Day cards. Once the billets were exchanged, the Romans would then let go of all their sexual inhibitions, in public. With that piece of information, do you want your children, grade school and high school, trading billets?

That now brings us to Cupid, who was named, Eros (spelled Rose if rearranged) by the Romans, which means Greek God of lust and desire. Also, the words erotica and erotic originate from Eros. Cupid is the son of Venus (Goddess of Love) If Cupids name, Eros, means erotic or erotica, then how is Cupid the god of love? Wouldn't his name make him the god of desire and lust? No? When what does the Webster dictionary define erotic as? Erotic: an aesthetic focus on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. It is not only the state of arousal and anticipation, but also the attempt through whatever means of representation to incite those feelings. Now what meaning does Cupid represent? Love or lust? I would have to say lust. Cupid engaged in lust and incest with is own mother, Venus. Artist Angelo Bronzino created a painting in 1545 of Cupid with his mother. In the painting Cupid is naked (as usually depicted) with his left hand holding the back of Venus' head while kissing her whom is also naked. With his right hand, Cupid caresses his mothers left breast as she "stokes his arrow". We will visit the symbol of the heart and the arrow in the next paragraph.

The next symbols associated with Valentine's Day is the heart, which has an interesting history, that traces all the way back to Aphrodite. Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Beauty, was beyond beautiful from head to toe but the thing that was uniquely beautiful about Aphrodite was her buttocks. Aphrodite's backside was so beautiful that the Greeks built the only temple in the world that is dedicated to buttocks worship. The Greeks then renamed Aphrodite as Aphrodite Kallipygos meaning goddess with beautiful buttocks. In the 1985 book, Watching: A Field Guide to the Human Species, Desmond Morris says, "the origin of the heart symbol with its deep cleft, was probably the shape of human female buttocks seen from the rear, and not an actual heart." Now, Cupid's arrow is a phallic symbol. Remember the painting by Angelo Bronzino, were Venus is "stroking" Cupid's arrow while he fondles her breasts and kisses her? So if you turn the heart associated with Valentines Day upside down it actually represents a woman's buttocks, and if Cupid's arrow is a phallic symbol in which he shoots into a heart, what does that tell you?

Who can forget about chocolate? Why do we give our adored chocolate opposed to any other confection? Chocolate contains PEA, or phenyethyamine. It is the same chemical that our brains produce the moment we fall in love or while we are in the presence of someone we are in love with. The chemical literarily intoxicates you and it feels superb. Combine that with the fact that flowers are the genitalia of plants, pollen from plants are actually plant sperm and on Valentines Day we give our loved ones rose plants. Remember what roses is spelled if it is rearranged? Eros, and Eros is the Greek God of lust and desire. Therefore we are giving our adored symbols of lust and sexual desire.

Nothing dealing with Valentines Days actually means love; it only means what most men hope the outcome of their gestures leads to which is sex. Over the years, like most holidays the actual meanings have been buried under marketable lies and each year we partake in the same rituals without getting to the route of its origins. Don't get me wrong, I find nothing wrong with any of this, but if you are going to engage in something, at least know where it originates. If sex is what you are seeking then Valentines Day is just the thing to do, but if you are looking for gestures of love then look forward to the other 364 days because one day is historically dedicated to wild sex and the shedding of sexual inhibitions.

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