It is getting close to "that time of year again," Valentine's Day.

If ever there was a holiday which exalts the virtues of monogamous romantic love, it is Valentine's day. But if you look below the surface - examine the ancient poetry, artwork and "sacred literature" associated with Valentine's Day, you quickly discover before "Saint" Valentine's Day became the exaltation of monogamous love, it was about celebrating a kind of love that was much freer, more open, more spontaneous and more expansive than monogamy.

Nowadays, most people think of Cupid shooting each person in the heart with ONE of his arrows to caused them fall in love with ONE specific person. But in earlier times, Cupid often shot two, three or more arrows into the same person's heart, thereby causing that person to fall in love with several people simultaneously. Modern Valentine's Day imagery depicts there being only one Cupid. But until recently, it was assumed there were numerous Cupids out there, each one independently shooting numerous arrows at people. Each of these Cupids had many different kinds of arrows, each of which created a different kind of love or attraction. Some arrows created an intense and very physically-based sexual attraction. Other kinds of arrows caused more emotionally-based passion, while still others created a very intellectual type of attraction. Depending on how many arrows were fired, which kinds of arrows a person was hit with and where precisely in their body they were struck, people could be made to simultaneously fall in love with numerous different people, each one in a slightly different way.


Legend has it that Saint Valentine's day was originally a very different kind of pagan holiday holiday than the one we celebrate today. This older holiday was called Lupercalia. It is claimed that Lupercalia involved randomly assigned sex partners, temporary relaxation of the rules of monogamy and the celebration of free love. Supposedly, the Church was so upset by this they eventually banned Lupercalia and all the "heathen" practices associated with it. Afterwards, they (supposedly) replaced Lupercalia with the much tamer holiday we now call Saint Valentine's Day. This is what is generally claimed. But how much of this is true?

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