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Zagmuk
Zagmuk is a Mesopotamian Equinox holiday.
The Lupercalia
The precursor to Valentine's Day, this ancient Roman festival was, among other things, a fertility rite, an event that began in a cave on the Palatine Hill where the she-wolf, Rumina, once suckled the twin brothers and founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus.

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