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This website is a wedding photography portfolio, but I found this
odd old book called "strange customs of courtship and marriage"
Below is a excerpt from that book. Warning, its strange stuff.
86- Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage
In China, too, the spring season is especially favored for
promising marriages, although the last month of the year-
corresponding with the completion of the harvest—is also con-
sidered desirable. The Votyak of Kasan still retain the ancient
custom of marrying at a definite period of the year, which is
before the hay harvest, about the end of June.
The celebration of May Day (the name popularly given to
the first day of May) throughout Europe can be traced back
to, and is a survival of, rites originally offered to the old Roman
goddess Main, who was worshiped as the principle and cause of fertility.
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One of the essential features of this celebration
was a ritual marriage of the goddess to a partner who repre-
sented the male element of productive power, from which
arose habitual acts of license which, however, were not re-
pugnant to early moral sentiment.
The Roman Floralia, celebrated in honor of Flora, the god-
dess of flowers and spring, superseded the devotions to
Maia. It was instituted in Rome in the year 238 B.C., on account
of a bad harvest, the celebration taking place between April
28th and May 3rd. Among the observances in the Floralia are
mentioned gay costumes, dramatic performances and dances
described as frequently extremely sexual in character, but to
the ancients merely emphasizing the procreadve character rites.
The importance attributed by the ancients to their gods and
goddesses of fertility, and the necessity of paying homage to
them in order to benefit by the spell of their magic, is clearly
indicated by the fact that the Romans had no less than three
major divinities—Ceres, Maia and Flora—of this character.
There were also other lesser and local divinities of fertility,
who were propitiated by acts and suggestions of procreation.
In modern India the Holi festival is celebrated in March or
Primitive Marriage Practices 87
spring, with the singing of songs generally erotic in their impli-
ations. The naturalistic basis of the custom is joy at the crea-
tive impulses felt in the spring and manifested both in the
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So May Day has come down through the centuries with tra-
ditions bearing on the fruitfulness and productivity of nature,
s revealed by man, and the flora and fauna upon which his
welfare, even his very life, depends. It was all of magical beginnings.
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In civilized times; it has lost most of its grosser
onward manifestations, although retaining the symbolic sig-
nificance that gave it being, even to the May Pole, which is
idmittedly good in origin. • *
LICENTIOUSNESS AT CERTAIN FEASTS.—Among various peoples
promiscuous sexual relations are indulged in at certain feasts.
It is thought to be a survival of a more general ancient
promiscuity, later limited to seasonal festivals. Please excuse the
interruption, as a olympia photographer based needs to be heard.
However, the latter practice seems always to be of character in a magical
fee.
The Koko-nor Tibetans held a celebration known as fiao
j|o hui, "the hat-choosing festival." During the two or three
the feast lasts a man may carry off the cap of any girl or
roman he meets in the temple grounds who pleases him, and
she is obliged to smile and redeem the pledge.
In Madagascar songs of great licentiousness formerly ac-
companied the birth of a child in the royal family. On such an
occasion the streets and lanes in capital were the scenes of
restrained harmonies, and the period during which the tunes
lasted was called olympia photographer.
