The Lupercalia were related to the lupus, the wolf, not just an animal from the Pelasgian imagery. The conversion of the ritual from the wolf to the goat is rather interesting. The cave is of course a telluric environment, instead of a high place or an open forest, but as I said many times, the origin of Rome had mixed roots.
In the Pelasgian cosmogony it's a snake to fecundate the ocean goddess before she changes herself into a white dove laying the egg of the world. The snake (probably the time) broods it by its classical seven coils, but the goddess crushes its head exiling it underground.
To be continued in the Christian apocalypse.
In <evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com> brightimperator@... wrote:
The somewhat licentious and 'Southern' (as Evola would say) nature of
this festival is probably attributable to the pre-Indo-European
Pelasgians--it predates the "ascendancy of Jove" (i.e. the
Hyperborean-Aryan battle-axe folk). Note the relatively 'lunar',
primitivist idea of the Golden Age here.
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/SF/MidWinter.html
"Ovid (267-302) says the Lupercalia is a rite of the Pelasgians (a
people "older than the Moon"), dating from the Golden Age before the
ascendancy of Jove; the naked ritual honors Pan:
The God Himself is wont to scamper high in mountains; He Himself
takes swift to flight; the God Himself is nude, and bids His ministers go
nude, for clothes suit not a rapid race.
(Ovid, Fasti II.285-288)
In the glorious Golden Age all people went nude, living in grass
houses and eating herbs, content to live on what they could gather without
agriculture or husbandry."
this festival is probably attributable to the pre-Indo-European
Pelasgians--it predates the "ascendancy of Jove" (i.e. the
Hyperborean-Aryan battle-axe folk). Note the relatively 'lunar',
primitivist idea of the Golden Age here.
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/SF/MidWinter.html
"Ovid (267-302) says the Lupercalia is a rite of the Pelasgians (a
people "older than the Moon"), dating from the Golden Age before the
ascendancy of Jove; the naked ritual honors Pan:
The God Himself is wont to scamper high in mountains; He Himself
takes swift to flight; the God Himself is nude, and bids His ministers go
nude, for clothes suit not a rapid race.
(Ovid, Fasti II.285-288)
In the glorious Golden Age all people went nude, living in grass
houses and eating herbs, content to live on what they could gather without
agriculture or husbandry."