Happy Valentine's Day From Acinny's Fantastic FurKids

Acinny's Fantastic FurKids Want To Know...Won't You Be Our Valentine??

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Valentine's Day, a day for romance and finding true love!
We hope that cupid's arrow finds your heart and brings you all the best for a great Valentine's Day!

History Of Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day grew out of a tradition that began many years ago in ancient Rome. A Roman feast of Lupercalia was observed on February 15. This ancient festival involved the celebration of fertility and honored two Roman gods, Juno and Pan. One of the conventions of this occasion called for young maidens to write love messages. The maidens would place their notes in a large urn. Unmarried men would then draw a message from the urn and court the fair maiden whose message was chosen.

Valentine's Day was called Bird's Wedding Day long ago. It was believed that birds selected their mates and began to breed on February 14th, the second week of the second month.

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Cupid has always played a role in the celebrations of love and lovers. He is known as a mischievous, winged child, whose arrows who would pierce the hearts of his victims causing them to fall deeply in love. In ancient Greece he was known as Eros the young son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. To the Roman's he was Cupid, and his mother Venus

One legend tells the story of Cupid and the mortal maiden, Psyche. Venus was jealous of the beauty of Psyche, and ordered Cupid to punish the mortal. But instead, Cupid fell deeply in love with her. He took her as his wife, but as a mortal she was forbidden to look at him. Psyche was happy until her sisters convinced her to look at Cupid. Cupid punished her by departing. Their lovely castle and gardens vanished with him and Psyche found herself alone in an open field

As she wandered to find her love, she came upon the temple of Venus. Wishing to destroy her, the goddess of love gave Psyche a series of tasks, each harder and dangerous than the last. For her last task Psyche was given a little box and told to take it to the underworld. She was told to get some of the beauty of Proserpine, the wife of Pluto, and put it in the box.

During her trip she was given tips on avoiding the dangers of the realm of the dead. And also warned not to open the box. Temptation would overcome Psyche and she opened the box. But instead of finding beauty, she found deadly slumber

Cupid found her lifeless on the ground. He gathered the sleep from her body and put it back in the box. Cupid forgave her, as did Venus. The gods, moved by Psyche's love for Cupid made her a goddess.

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