Saturnalia

For an older time. In the strict age of Rome, Saturnalia were the time when a slave, otherwise eligible to death if he farted without being allowed, could mock his masters without fear of reprisal. A time when madness descended and everyone was like transported on another planet. Habits got more lenient in that debauchery pot that the late empire was, but Saturnalia, now Carnival, were again a much needed time during the dark ages, when the asswipes of the social ladder, paesants, revelled in corporal celebrations. Church let their its fist loosen up a bit (along with its anus).

What's carnival today? No longer this cathartic subversion of the cosmos. Just another occasion to drink one's ass off - but now with some silly costume on.

I threw the Lupercalia in even though they were another festival, 'cause it was pretty cool as well, and I'd love if something like that existed today (officially, of course).

Meh.