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		<title>Be My Lupercalentine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krypte Kamara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Valentine&#8217;s Day may have no intentional link to Lupercalia, its current meaning has more in common with the eros of ancient Roman fertility festival than the self-sacrificing agape of St. Valentine. It could be yet another attempt by the early Christian church to co-opt an existing pagan holiday, but I think this time it might just [&#038;hellip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kryptekamara.com&#038;blog=33310642&#038;post=359&#038;subd=kryptekamara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Shadow of Groundhog Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Animal worship? Mass gatherings devoted to seemingly pointless behavior? I smell ritual magick. (Or is that hippies? I can&#8217;t tell.) According to old Wikipedia, a diary entry from 1841 points to a German tradition of observing the behavior of groundhogs on Candlemas. If it sees a shadow, meaning the sun is out, he retreats for [&#038;hellip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kryptekamara.com&#038;blog=33310642&#038;post=346&#038;subd=kryptekamara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blow Out the Candles</title>
		<link>http://kryptekamara.com/2012/07/30/blow-out-the-candles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krypte Kamara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You say it&#8217;s your birthday It&#8217;s my birthday too&#8211;yeah They say it&#8217;s your birthday We&#8217;re gonna have a good time I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s your birthday Happy birthday to you. -The Beatles Every year we gather our closest friends and relatives to celebrate another trip around the sun with a strange little ritual. A cake is [&#038;hellip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kryptekamara.com&#038;blog=33310642&#038;post=316&#038;subd=kryptekamara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WTF is PIE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krypte Kamara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PIE? I&#8217;m not an etymologist, but I play one on the internet. When I do, I usually stick to the Online Etymology Dictionary. It&#8217;s well sourced and usually gives a short history of the word&#8217;s evolution over time with the original lingual root. Most word roots loop back to Latin, Greek or Sanskrit, but scholars have also [&#038;hellip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kryptekamara.com&#038;blog=33310642&#038;post=307&#038;subd=kryptekamara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May and June &#8211; Major and Junior?</title>
		<link>http://kryptekamara.com/2012/07/06/may-and-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krypte Kamara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The month of May is most often associated with Maia, the Greek earth-goddess and wife of Vulcan. Her son, Hermes (aka Mercury), has a festival in his honor on the ides of Maius. June is the most common month for weddings, and it&#8217;s no surprise that Juno is both a goddess of marriage and fertility. So, at least we can put [&#038;hellip<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kryptekamara.com&#038;blog=33310642&#038;post=292&#038;subd=kryptekamara&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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