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Mardi Gras
Breasts and beads or revelry gone
wrong?
Mardi Gras, literally
translated, means Fat Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday). Fat Tuesdays falls
before Ash Wednesday in the celebration of Lent. Much of the tradition
around the celebration of Mardi Gras comes directly from Twelfth Night
revelers and the mischief that was the foundation of that celebration.
Twelfth Night is a
part of the year-end festivities of the UK and France. It was begun in
the mid-fifth century when, following the thought that creating pagan
festivities would lure people “back” to the religion, the English
and French churches created a brilliant answer in the Feast of Fools.
As part of the
celebrations, temporary Archbishops and Bishops of Fools made-believe
mischief based on satirical perceptions of the religious expectations of
the time. Parades of fools, celebrations, street dancing and carnival
atmosphere lent the revelers an opportunity to let their hair down and
celebrate, before the beginning of the new season’s planting and hard
work.
The French government
banned the celebrations from the church by the end of the 15th
century because of the degeneration into overly-lewd behavior. So, in a
counter move by the people, a new street festival was “created”,
including the Prince des Sots as he was known in France and the Lord of
Misrule in England.The
Scots had him pegged as the Abbot of Unreason.This festival King “ruled” for three months, beginning at
Halloween. The pagan correlations are not accidental. Samhain
(Halloween) being the highest pagan festival of the year, is the
beginning of the long winter months of dark and quiet. The revelries
ended just before a major Christian mark, Lent.
Mardi Gras in New
Orleans is reputedly full of bared breasts, drunk party girls and all
sorts of lewd, crude and crazy behavior. The locals will tell you about
the family side of the celebrations with parades, floats, trinkets
thrown to spectators, concerts and more. While the party-goers head to
the French Quarter where you might find much of what is “supposed”
to go on during Mardi Gras in the Big Easy. Lawkeepers abound after dark
in the city, but the French Quarter turns a blind eye to much of the
partying that goes on during this very colorful, festive and pagan-based
celebration.
The expression
"get laid" supposedly has its roots in the "Everleigh"
bordello in 1900's Chicago ("I'm going to get Everleighed
tonight").
In the 18th Century, another
term for anal sex was "navigate the windward passage".
In
17th century Spain, it was illegal for anyone other than a woman's
husband to see her bare feet. A woman could freely expose her
breasts, but feet were considered sexual and had to be covered in
the presence of men other than her husband.
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