Valentine’s Day & Nimrod: The Original Cupid
Pictured to the left is an artist’s depiction of the original “Saint Valentine” of “Saturnia,” which was later on renamed as the city of “Rome.” According to Babylonian history, Nimrod was being pursued by a bounty hunt of men who were commissioned by Shem (the son of Noah) to find him and kill him for his many crimes against children. According to the book of Yasher (Jasher), it was Esau (the twin brother of Jacob) who ultimately killed Nimrod.
Nimrod’s demise is accurately described in Isaiah 14:12 where he is said to be “cut down to the ground,” just like a tree. Nimrod’s other alias is “Ba’al,” the god of the sun and the tree. This proph-ecy is about Satan himself who was once a “covering cherub” at the throne in heaven (see Ezekiel 28). After his rebellion towards the Most High, he was cast out of heaven and he masqueraded as the serpent in the Garden of Eden. But he also masqueraded as the “King of Tryus.” Tyrus was an ancient Phonecian city on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean Sea which today is called Lebanon.
Nimrod’s crimes were many, but the most heinous of his crimes was the sacrificing of infants on the altar to Moloch (aka Satan). When Nimrod fled from his pursuers, he hid himself in the Mountains of Nembrod also called the Mountains of Nimrod. Today, these very same mountains are called the “Apennine Mountains” and they are located in Rome, Italy. These are the same mountains which surround the Vatican, otherwise known as “The Seven Hills of Rome.”
The Ides of the Month in Paganism: Why February 14th?
Why should the Romans have chosen February 15th and the evening of February 14th to honor Lupercus -- the Nimrod of the Bible? Well, first of all, it is important to understand that since the creation, a new calendar date changed at sunset, the evening before.
Nimrod (the Ba’al or sun-god of the ancient pagans) was said to have been born at the winter solstice. In ancient times the solstice occurred on January 6th and his birthday therefore was celebrated on January 6th. Later, as the solstice changed, it was celebrated on December 25th and is now called Christmas. It was the custom of antiquity for the mother of a male child to present herself for purification on the fortieth day after the day of birth (Leviticus 12:2-5). The fortieth day after January 6th (Nimrod’s original birth-date) takes us to February 15th, the celebration of which began on the evening of February 14th the Lupercalia or St. Valentine’s Day.
On this day in February, Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod, was said to have been PURIFIED and to have appeared for the first time in public with her son as the original “mother & child.” The Roman month February, in fact, derives its name from the “februa” which the Roman priests used in the rites celebrated on St. Valentine’s Day. The “februa” were thongs from the skins of sacrificial animals used in rites of purification on the evening of February 14th.
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