The Roots of Cupid
and Valentine's Day
"Semiramis was worshipped as the Queen of Heaven
and Tammuz / Nimrod - was her son as well as her lover.
This lurid (incestuous) relationship became the basis
of a fertility cult that spread around the world. This is
seen in Greece, where Tammuz (Nimrod) is known
as Eros, the son and lover of his mother, Aphrodite.
I saw a statue of him in the Athens museum - looking
exactly as "Cupid" does - and it was NOT something
you would hang on your family-room wall. "
-Is Cupid Old Fashioned?
by Dr. Rick Shrader
Aletheia Archives; The Bookshelf
February 1994; Vol. 2, No. 2
"The name "Cupid" means "desire".
Nimrod's mother, Venus (Semiramis)
desired and lusted her own son.
She eventually married her own son.
Their twisted sexuality is the object
of Valentine's Day."
-God's Holydays Vs Mankind's Holidays
"St." Valentine's Day
Author: Brian Hoeck
Each year on February 14th countless millions
of people celebrate a day known as
“St. Valentine’s Day.”
Many heart-shaped cards and boxes of
chocolates are given as gifts, and even churches
have Valentine parties on this so-called
“Day of Love.”
In schools, from pre-school and kindergarten
on up, children draw names from a box and
exchange heart-shaped notes, cards and candy.
People of all ages get into the act,
and the words that are heard everywhere
on that day are, “Be My Valentine.”
The sad fact is that most people never question
the origin of the customs that they involve
themselves with.
Most people do not ask questions but do what
everybody else does, never stopping to consider
how or why they are doing it.
When we consider that Valentine’s Day is a day
of preoccupation with the heart, we do well to
consider the following verse -
"The heart is deceitful above all things,
and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt
and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it
or understand his own heart?"
(Jeremiah 17:9)(AMP)-BibleGateway
"A human heart is more dishonest
than anything else. It can't be healed.
Who can understand it?"
(Jeremiah 17:9)(NIRV)-BibleGateway
"The pagan Romans acquired the symbol
of the heart from the Babylonians.
In the Babylonian tongue the word for
"heart" was "bal" (see "Young's" or "Strong's
Concordance"). The heart -- "bal" -- was
merely a symbol of Nimrod -- the "Baal"
or Lord of the Babylonians!"
-The Real Truth behind St. Valentine's Day
Holidays or God's Holy Days
Arroyo B. Sanders
"But why should Nimrod have been called "Valentine"
by the Romans? And why should the celebration of this
day have been anciently limited to the city of Rome
before Pope Gelasius' time? What part did the site of
ancient Rome play in the life of Nimrod?"
--The Silence of Educators
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
Christian Custom? -- or Pagan Holiday?
by Herman L. Hoeh
"Nimrod -- THE ORIGINAL ST. VALENTINE --
was also known as Saturn, the Roman-Babylonian
god who HID from his pursuers in a secret place.
The Latin word Saturn is derived from the
Semitic-speaking Babylonians. It means "be hid,"
"hide self," "secret," "conceal." The original
Semitic (Hebrew) word, from which the Latin
"Saturn is derived, is used 83 times in the
Old Testament (see "Young's Concordance"
under "Sathar," also "sether")."
-The Real Truth behind St. Valentine's Day
Holidays or God's Holy Days
Arroyo B. Sanders
"According to ancient tradition,
Saturn (Nimrod) fled from his pursuers
to Italy. The Apennine mountains of Italy
were anciently named the mountains of Nembrod
or Nimrod. Nimrod briefly hid out at the site
where Rome was later built. The ancient name
of Rome, before it was rebuilt in 753 B.C.,
was Saturnia -- the site of Saturn's (Nimrod's)
hiding. There he was found and slain for
his crimes."
-The Real Truth behind St. Valentine's Day
Holidays or God's Holy Days
Arroyo B. Sanders
"Later, professing Christians in Constantine's
day made Nimrod -- the St. Valentine of the heathen
-- into a SAINT of the Church and continued to
honor him under the name of a Christian martyr."
-The Real Truth behind St. Valentine's Day
Holidays or God's Holy Days
Arroyo B. Sanders
"Another name for the child Nimrod was "Cupid"
-- meaning "desire" ("Encyclopedia Britannica",
art., "Cupid"). It is said that when Nimrod's
mother saw him, she LUSTED after him -- she
DESIRED him. Nimrod became her Cupid -- her
desired one -- and later her Valentine!
So evil was Nimrod's mother that IT IS SAID
SHE MARRIED HER OWN SON! Inscribed on the
monuments of ancient Egypt are inscriptions
that Nimrod (the Egyptians called him Osiris)
was "the husband of his mother."
-The Real Truth behind St. Valentine's Day
Holidays or God's Holy Days
Arroyo B. Sanders
"Cupid’s mythological relationship with his
mother Venus is similar to that of Nimrod and
his mother, Semiramis. Several paintings from
the Renaissance era show a rather incestuous
relationship between Cupid and Venus. In Bronzino’s
famous painting of 1545, Cupid kisses his mother
while fondling her breast as she caresses his
arrow. Michelangelo also produced a work of art
portraying an abnormally intimate relationship
between Cupid and his mother Venus."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"As Nimrod grew up, he became the child-hero
of MANY women who DESIRED him. He was their Cupid!
In the Book of Daniel he is called the "DESIRE
of women" (Dan. 11:37). Moffatt translates the
word as Tammuz -- a Babylonian name of Nimrod.
He provoked so many women to JEALOUSY that an
idol of him was often called the "image of jealousy"
(Ezekiel 8:5). Nimrod, the hunter, was also their
Valentine -- their strong or mighty hero!
No wonder the pagans commemorated their
hero-hunter Nimrod, or Baal, by sending
heartshaped love tokens to one another on the
evening of February 14 as a symbol of him."
-The Real Truth behind St. Valentine's Day
Holidays or God's Holy Days
Arroyo B. Sanders
"The worship of the Great Mother of Gods
and her lover / son was very popular under
the Roman Empire. Inscriptions prove that
the two received divine honors .... not only
in Italy and especially at Rome, but also in
the provinces, particularly in Africa, Spain,
Portugal, France, Germany and Bulgaria.
Their worship survived the Establishment of
Christianity by Constantine ; for Symachus
records the recurrence of the festival of
the Great Mother and in the days of Augustine
her effeminate priests still paraded the
streets and squares of Carthage....."
-"The Golden Bough" - page 356
by Sir James George FRAZER
Abridged Edition published in 1950
by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London
"Like Christmas, Easter, Halloween,
New Year’s and other holidays of this world,
St. Valentine’s Day is another attempt to
“whitewash” perverted customs and observances
of pagan gods and idols by “Christianizing” them."
-The Truth Behind St. Valentine’s Day
RCG - David C. Pack
"As innocent and harmless as St. Valentine’s Day
may appear, its traditions and customs originate
from two of the most sexually perverted pagan
festivals of ancient history: Lupercalia and
the feast day of Juno Februata."
-The Truth Behind St. Valentine’s Day
RCG - David C. Pack
"The title Baal means “lord” or “master,”
and is mentioned throughout the Bible as
the god of pagans. God warned His people
not to worship or even tolerate the ways
of Baal (Nimrod). In ancient Chaldean
(the language of the Babylonians), "bal",
which is similar to "Baal", meant, “heart.”
This is where the Valentine heart symbol
originated."
-The Truth Behind St. Valentine’s Day
RCG - David C. Pack
Valentines Day came from the ancient Lupercalia
- which was ". . an ancient Roman rite held each
February 15 for the fertility god Lupercus."
The Encyclopedia Americana, 1996,
from the article "Lupercalia,"
"That famous man was Lupercus,
the HUNTER. But who was Lupercus?
-- and why should he have also borne
the name Valentine among the heathen Romans?
The Greeks called Lupercus by the name of "Pan".
The Semites called Pan "Baal," according to the
"Classical Dictionaries". Baal -- mentioned so often
in the Bible -- was merely another name for Nimrod,
"the mighty HUNTER" (Genesis 10:9). The hunter
Nimrod was the Lupercus -- or wolf hunter --
of the Romans. And St. Valentine's Day was
originally a day set aside by the pagans
in his honor!"
--The Silence of Educators
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
Christian Custom? -- or Pagan Holiday?
by Herman L. Hoeh
"One of the most widely used and recognized
symbols of love and Valentine’s Day is a shape
known as the heart. Although this shape bears
no resemblance to an actual human heart it is
considered a valid expression of ones inner
feelings — a sign of love and desire."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"As you know, the symbol of the heart
is featured very prominently in the
Valentine's Day celebration as a symbolic
representation for love, but the original
intention was as a symbol representation
of the worship of Nimrod, who was the
forerunner of all pagan gods."
-Controlled by the Calendar:
The Pagan Origins of Our Major Holidays
Valentine's Day: Chapter 29
Is it a Christian Observance
or a Pagan Celebration ?
"The church leaders of that day felt that
for “Christianity” to conquer the world,
it would be wise to compromise with pagans
throughout the Empire. Since the common people
were habituated to their pagan customs and
reveled in their pagan holidays, church leaders
devised a method to reconcile paganism
and nominal Christianity. They simply
“baptized” pagan customs, thereby making
them “Christian” in appearance and name.
The result? Pagans began to flock into
the Church in droves. They kept the same
days and performed the same rituals,
but now they did it to “Christ” instead
of to Astarte or Tammuz."
-Beyond the Da Vinci Code–
The Mystery Babylon CODE; pg.10
William F.Dankenbring
"To the surprise of many, Valentine's Day is NOT
an innocent secular holiday; infact the true origins
of Valentine's day has it's roots in the occult.
Namely in the pagan worship of Baal, the sungod.
The religion of Babylon (Baal worship) is the mother
of most false religions and its influence is still
felt world wide, including in today's churches."
--The Truth About Valentine's Day
What's Love Got to Do With it ?
BABYLON FORSAKEN MINISTRIES
"In Rome, this tradition was Venus and Cupid.
Cupid was the winged youth who shot arrows
(like Nimrod the mighty hunter). Thus the world
worships daily at the altar of Cupid and carries
on the lusts to which they are slaves,"
-Is Cupid Old Fashioned?
by Dr. Rick Shrader
Aletheia Archives; The Bookshelf
February 1994; Vol. 2, No. 2
"Hislop goes on about Cupid, 'Speaking of a
statue of Cupid, it is a fair, full, fleshly,
round boy, in fine and sportive action,
tossing back a heart.' Thus the boy-god
came to be regarded as the 'god of the heart',
in other words, as Cupid, or the god of love.
To identify this infant divinity, with his
father 'the mighty hunter' [Nimrod], he was
equipped with 'bow and arrows'. He was the
woman's seed. Venus and her son Cupid,
(Semiramis and Tammuz) were none other than
the Madonna and the child (bearing the sacred
heart)."
-God's Holydays Vs Mankind's Holidays
"St." Valentine's Day
Author: Brian Hoeck
"Nimrod/Tammuz, or Cupid,was represented
as a beautiful youth, beloved by Venus (his
mother and later wife!). The ancient PAGAN
gods were incorporated into the church as
“saints,” their festivals as “Christian”
festivals, renamed, and their rites and
ceremonies were now “baptized” and sprinkled
with “holy water” to make them acceptable
to naïve and unsuspecting church members."
-Beyond the Da Vinci Code–
The Mystery Babylon CODE; pg.9
William F.Dankenbring
"Cupid, the son of Venus,
is really Tammuz, son of Semiramis.
-Occult Holidays and Sabbats
The Cutting Edge
"Cupid is a Roman name (also called Amor)
associated with his lover Venus. They are
the god and goddess of love whose stories
fill the mythologies. Venus and Cupid were
known by many other names. In Babylon they
were Semiramis and Tammuz. In Egypt they
were Isis and Osiris. In Phoenicia they were
Ashteroth and Baal. In Greece they were
Aphrodite and Adonis (Eros). In Iceland
they were Frigga and Balder. Even in the
far East, Cupid was known as Zoroaster
(zoro, ‘‘seed of’’ and aster or ‘‘ashteroth’’)."
-Is Cupid Old Fashioned?
by Dr. Rick Shrader
Aletheia Archives; The Bookshelf
February 1994; Vol. 2, No. 2
"Venus was the mother of Cupid.
He was believed to bring about love
and also to make it cease.
The name Cupid means "desire".
Nimrod's mother, Venus (Semiramis)
desired and lusted her own son.
That is why she is called the goddess
of sexual immorality - she married her own son.
They and their twisted sexuality are the
object of Valentine's Day."
-God's Holydays Vs Mankind's Holidays
"St." Valentine's Day
Author: Brian Hoeck
"In deeply examining Valentine’s Day,
we find a celebration that dates back
to the very origin of Paganism itself.
Many historians and religious scholars
trace this festival all the way back to
Ham’s grandson Nimrod, the founder of
Babylon and the Babylonian mystery religion."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"The name Valentine comes from the Latin
word “valens” meaning strong, powerful or
mighty. Nimrod was such a mighty one and
therefore became the subject of innumerable
legends. Along with his mother Semiramis,
he was worshipped as a god for thousands
of years after his death and traces of his
worship are still found in many religious
practices today."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"God punished the people who followed Nimrod
as they were building the tower known as Babel.
The project was then abandoned after the people
began speaking different languages and were
scattered throughout the earth (Gen. 11:8).
However, where ever they went they took
Nimrod’s mystery religion with them.
In their new locations they erected false
gods and observed unholy rituals based upon
what they had learned from Nimrod in Babylon.
As a result of the wide dispersion, and the
fact that the people now spoke different
languages, Nimrod came to be called by many
different names. He was known as Asar, Dumuzi,
Orian, Pan, Gilgamesh, Osiris, Eros, Cupid,
Baal and Marduk to name just a few."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"Nimrod therefore introduced a perverted,
degraded form of religion into the world.
It began at Babylon, spread to Nineveh,
and can be traced in history as it
subsequently spread throughout the whole
of the earth. Thus, in this man Nimrod,
we have the seed of idolatry and false
religion coming in again after the Flood."
-God’s Funnel (p. 3-4).
by Ray C. Stedman
"Nimrod was said to be the spiritual heart
of Babylon. In the Babylonian tongue the
word for heart is “bal.” Baal, who is
mentioned often in the Bible, is really just
another title for the founder of apostate
religion—Nimrod."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"Thus, the roots of Valentine’s Day
are found deeply embedded in the ancient
pagan purification and fertility festivals.
By following the foot prints of this
so called “love” holiday even further
back in time, they lead to Nimrod and
his perverted sexual relationship with
his mother/wife Semiramis."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"The customs of Valentine’s Day
have been handed down from the Roman
festival of the Lupercalia, celebrated
in the month of February, when the names
of young women were put into a box and
drawn out by men as chance directed.
This is the origin of valentines - cards
linking men and women together for sexual
purposes. This festival was characterized
in the later Roman period by wanton raillery
and unkindled freedom."
-The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics
vol III: PG. 226; BY James Hastings
"This custom was observed in the Roman Empire
for centuries. It was a tradition performed
in anticipation of the rites of spring —
a celebration of youthful love.
During the medieval days of chivalry,
the lover’s lottery became very popular
in England. The names of maidens and
bachelors were put into separate boxes
and drawn out in pairs. The couple
exchanged gifts and the girl became
the man’s valentine for a year. The male
often wore his valentine’s name on his
sleeve and it was his duty to attend and
protect her. Today the old adage,
"to wear your heart on your sleeve"
means that it is easy for other people
to know how you are feeling. This saying
is derived from a tradition observed during
the medieval lover’s lottery where one could
easily see the name of the girl the male
was to care for on his sleeve."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"Biblically, Cupid was the same tradition
as Nimrod (Gen 10:8), the mighty hunter;
Baal (Num 22:41), the ‘‘Winged One;’’ Tammuz
(Ez 8:14), and ‘‘Ishtar,’’ was the mother
of Tammuz."
-Is Cupid Old Fashioned?
by Dr. Rick Shrader
Aletheia Archives; The Bookshelf
February 1994; Vol. 2, No. 2"The whole tradition goes something like this
Semiramis and Tammuz were husband and wife, lovers.
Semiramis was seen as a goddess (in Babylon, she
was ‘‘Ishtar’’ i.e. ‘‘star’’ and hence ‘‘Venus’’
in Roman times, the feast of Easter in Saxon times.
Semiramis became the Queen of Heaven and Tammuz
her son as well as lover. This lurid relationship
became the basis for the cult being a fertility
cult as is seen in all its variations. In Greece,
Tammuz is Eros, the son and lover of Aphrodite.
I saw a statue of him in the Athens museum
(looking exactly as Cupid would look) and it
was not something you would hang on your family
room wall. Of the four Greek words for love,
eros means ‘‘erotic’’. "
-Is Cupid Old Fashioned?
by Dr. Rick Shrader
Aletheia Archives; The Bookshelf
February 1994; Vol. 2, No. 2
"Tammuz corresponded to Baal in Phoenicia,
Osiris in Egypt, Eros in Greece, and Cupid
in Rome. In every case, the worship of those
gods and goddesses was associated with sexual
immorality."
-Evangelicals' new twist on Lent -
Catholic traditions adopted as 'worship renewal'
MSNBC ^ | March 8, 2008 |
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
"Thus the boy-god came to be regarded as
the "god of the heart," in other words, as Cupid,
or the god of love. To identify this infant divinity,
with his father "the mighty hunter," he was equipped
with "bow and arrows"...this sportive boy-god was
celebrated as taking aim with his gold-tipped shafts
at the hearts of mankind. His real character was
of course that of Venus and her son Cupid.
They were adopted by Rome as the Madonna and
the child."
-The Two Babylons; Alexander Hislop
Chapter V - Section IV
The Rosary and the Worship
of the Sacred Heart
"For almost every Pagan ceremony,
some Christian rite was introduced.”
-Clavis Calendaria, Vol.1, (p.196).
by John Brand
"As far back as 496, Pope Gelasius changed
Lupercalia on Feb. 15 to St. Valentine's Day
on Feb. 14."
-Customs and Holidays Around the World
author Lavinia Dobler (p. 172).
"The stories behind the Saint Valentine
legends are vague and many secular historians
believe that they were simply fabrications
enabling the church to retain the appeal
of the Pagan February feasts by changing
their licentious meanings to a more acceptable
image of love, purity and holiness."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"St. Valentine’s Day as a lovers’ festival,
the choice of a valentine, and the modern
development of sending valentine cards has
no relation to the saint or to any incident
in his life."
-The Encyclopedia Britannica
1970 Edition
"According to Roman mythology,
Cupid was the son of Venus the goddess
of love and beauty. He was known as
Eros in ancient Greece, a god of love
and sexual desire. It is from his name
Eros that we get the word “erotic”
meaning sexual love or lustful desire."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"Eros was said to be a child of the gods
Hermes and Aphrodite. As a product of this
union, he was considered to be “Herm-Aphrodite.”
This signified a sexual union which later
was defined as a being endowed with the
reproductive organs of both male and female."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"In India Cupid was known as Kama.
The famous sex manual The Kama Sutra
was named after him."
--The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"The name Cupid comes from the Latin verb
“cupere” meaning “to desire.” He has been
described in ancient folklore as an extremely
handsome, famous archer, who frequently hunted
in the country and mountains. He also is said
to be responsible for impregnating numerous
goddesses and mortals. Thus another
manifestation emerges from these tall tales
of Cupid. Said to be a very handsome man,
Nimrod became an object of desire eliciting
lust in many women including his own mother,
Semiramis, who eventually married him.
Cupid — like the legends of Nimrod from which
he was created — came equipped with the skills,
characteristics and stories of being a mighty
hunter."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
"Cupid’s mythological relationship with his
mother Venus is similar to that of Nimrod and
his mother, Semiramis. Several paintings from
the Renaissance era show a rather incestuous
relationship between Cupid and Venus. In Bronzino’s
famous painting of 1545, Cupid kisses his mother
while fondling her breast as she caresses his
arrow. Michelangelo also produced a work of art
portraying an abnormally intimate relationship
between Cupid and his mother Venus."
-The Truth about Valentine's Day
By Terry Moore and Art Braidic
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