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The symbols associated with
Valentine's Day:
The colors of Valentine's Day
The colors of Valentines Day are Pink, Red and
White!
Red symbolizes warmth and feeling. It is
associated with the color of the human heart.
White is a symbol of purity. (In some cases also
of Faith and so it means the faith of the love two
people have for each other.)
Pink (combination of Red + White) is then a
symbol, of innocents and virginity in some cases.
A heart (red or pink) with an arrow
piercing through it is the most common shape and look
for a Valentines! It's not clear when the valentine
heart shape became the symbol for the heart. Some
scholars speculate that in the 12th century, . more>>
Red Rose -The traditional
Valentines Day gift, red rouse Red also signifies
strong feelings. But Flowers were considered love tokens
before there even was a St. Valentines. The Roman God,
Bacchus (God of Wine and Joy) and Venus (Goddess of Love
and Beauty) both considered the beauty and fragrance of
flowers to be tied with romance and love. ….
Daisies, Violets
and Bachelor Buttons - Kyanus Valentine Day
have are a few other flowers except the rose considered
to be romantic also. The Romans believed that the Daisy
was once a wood nymph. One day, while dancing in a field
she was seen by Vertumnus, the God of Spring who get
fell in love.
Say your feelings With Flowers... more>>
You can read page
Meaning of Flowers.
Lovebirds
Lovebirds how they become the symbol
of Valentine Day? Lovebirds - colorful birds found in
Africa, are so named because they sit closely together
in pairs -- like sweethearts do. During the years,
Lovebirds have changed from Doves .
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Cupid
Cupid is the most famous of Valentine
symbols and everybody knows that boy armed with bow and
arrows, and piercing hearts. Cupid has always played a
role in the celebrations of love and lovers. He is known
as a mischievous, winged child, whose arrows 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. more>>
How about the "X" sign representing a
kiss? This tradition started with the Medieval practice
of allowing those who could not write to sign documents
with an "X". This was done before witnesses, and the
signer placed a kiss upon the "X" to show sincerity.
This is how the kiss came to be synonymous with the
letter "X", and how the "X" came to be commonly used at
the end of letters as kiss symbols. (Some believed "X"
was chosen as a variation on the cross symbol, while
others believe it might have been a pledge in the name
of Christ, since the "X" -- or Chi symbol -- is the
second letter of the Greek alphabet and has been used in
church history to represent Christ.)
The custom of exchanging love notes
goes back to the Roman Lupercalia festival with the
names being drawn. But the British were the ones who
popularized sending your feelings to someone via a
printed card. Chrles, Duke of Orleans, imprisoned in the
tower of London for several years following the Battle
of Agincourt in 1415, created the first Valentine card.
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Lace has long been used to make
women's handkerchiefs. Hundreds of years ago, if a woman
dropped her handkerchief, a man might pick it up for
her. Sometimes, if she had her eye on the right man, a
woman might intentionally drop. more>>
Valentine Love knots
Valentine Love knots have series of
winding and interlacing loops with no beginning and no
end. A symbol of everlasting love, love knots were made
from ribbon or drawn on paper. Love Knots has no
beginning and no end and consists of graceful loops
-sometimes forming hearts, in which messages of love are
either attached and knotted in . more>>
Many sailors would scratch designs on
tusk, bones, ivory or wood as a token of love. This is
known as scrimshaw today. Long flat decorated scrimshaw
were often meant as corsets stiffeners known as busk and
stays. Some carved messages into them. more>>
In Wales wooden love spoons were
carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys
and keyholes were favorite decorations on the spoons
with decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!" .
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By the 19th Century another symbol of
love became the paper hand. It was considered a symbol
of courtship because of the custom of a man "asking for
a lady's hand" in marriage. The hands of a lady have
been a favorite valentine decoration for many years and
are thought to depict desirable feminine qualities. . more>>
Puzzik or Puzzle Purse , Puzzik-circa
1840 -- quaint valentines,
customarily homemade, which contained a folded puzzle to
be read, solved and then refolded. Not only was it
necessary to decipher the message, it was also necessary
to refold the paper correctly once it was opened. This
valentine contained many folds of verses that had to be
read in a certain sequence. The order of the verses was
usually numbered and the recipient would have to twist
the folds in order to determine what had been written.
Daguerreotype
Daguerreotype -was popular from 1840
to the Civil War. An old-time tintype was found in the
center of a card surrounded by an ornamented wreath.
Another type was a "Mirror Valentine" which had a small
mirror placed in the center to reflect the happy face of
the receiver.
Rebus
Rebus -- valentines, which contained
romantic verses written in ink with certain words
omitted and illustrated by tiny pictures instead (the
image of an eye would take the place of the word "I,"
for example) although it had many forms. Rebus-Meant to
be a riddle, these valentines were not always
necessarily easy to decipher. The rebus valentine had
many forms, but the one mentioned herein was the most
common and the most popular.
Theorem or Poonah
Theorem or Poonah -- valentines with
designs that were painted through a stencil cut in
oilpaper. This particular style originated in the
Orient.
Pinprick
Pinprick -- valentines made by
pricking tiny holes in paper with a pin or needle and
thus creating the appearance of lace.
Acrostic
Acrostic -- valentines containing
verses in which the first lines spelled-out the loved
one's name. Cutout -- valentines made by folding the
paper several times and then cutting-out a lacelike
design with small sharp-pointed scissors.
Fraktur
Fraktur -- valentines with ornamental
lettering in the style of illuminated manuscripts from
the Middle Ages.
Watch Papers.
Popular when men carried pocket
watches, these were made to fit the back or front of a
pocket watch.
Historically, apples have been tokens
of love and fertility. The Norse gods ate apples to stay
young and scholars say that Hebrew women washed with the
sap of an apple for fertility. Apples have also been
known for divining and fortune telling since ancient
times. For example some old traditions: more>>
Chocolate contains chemical called
phenyl ethylamine or phenylaline that is produced in our
brains when we falling in love, and that gives the same
emotional high related to amphetamines. Many
psychologist feel that chocolate is an instant "love
booster" and . more>>
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