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The origin of Carnival

Karneval, Fasching or Fastnacht. Behind this is a lot more than you see today. Not be merry on command 6 days, the booze unconscious and hear spooky music. ;-) Actually, it's for people's valuable time. Or it should be.

Where does the word carnival come from? Of fasting? Because from Ash Wednesday begins so many Lent, which lasts until Easter then. But I was wrong. It is a Middle High German word "Vasel" or "viseln" also = do grow fruitful, multiply.
And this custom was a babble of licentiousness FERTILITY ORGY! Well, not much Unlike many carnivals today, right? ;-)
These festivals were among the Germans as known Fasel nights. "FASEL" Old High German means "descendants".
It was therefore wild parties with disguise, mask runs, drinking and phallic processions. Contact with the creative chaos. An energy that makes omitted, horny and fertile, but just as easily disturb the balance and can make you sick. Therefore, this time is also extremely sensitive. There was a lot of noisy bustle, parades, eating, drinking,. Again, the noisy procession, to drive out the winter. A noisy awakening of nature.
And then of course the Mask moves to expel the old demons, monsters and other diseases.

clear that the church did not like the saw. From 743 it was even banned as a pagan custom. But with little success, because no one thought of it. These wild, obscene, crazy, unbridled celebrations were not to take away.


There was a time that coincided with the flowering of a new nature. So that everything back to life, even the juice in humans. Therefore was omitted from these late winter festivals, the Christian "Lent".
From Vasel-nights or Fasel-nights were the nights of fasting, that fast before Easter. Nevertheless, the ancient tradition
could not be overcome.
Carnival is a remnant of an ancient ritual culture of our ancestors who understood how to deal with the spirits of nature yet. Without this involvement of the spirits of nature in our culture, and worse by their isolation on the wild these creatures, evil and menacing. You need to take their place, so to speak with authority. Our ancestors had respect and respect for them. Today candyshop carnival used to be a Dämonenzug and people wore masks of the spirits. If the Dämonenzug is over, he has a lot of old rubbish, and spiritual taken, paving the way for the spring and the goddess of spring and purified.
In the truest sense, a last dance.


And why Rose Monday?
With flowers do not really. Formerly called the Carnival Prince still king beans. His reign lasted until the day after Shrove Monday, he was sacrificed. Today, only symbolic, but in very old times this happened actually. Well, some are now thinking: What a pity that the times have changed .... LOL. This bean king was then drawn by lot and had to add to his fate. Understandably, he rose on Monday, the day before the Sacrifice, already so mad was that he was quite mad. Rose Monday is "furious" Monday, in which the desperation of the victim their boiling point. This is behind the word rose Monday, which has held up to the present and was even included in the Christian holiday calendar.


So you see that this time was really special. Much deeper than our present-day carnival Helau and Alaaf. Much lower than today's superficial jokes, disguises and balls.
What it actually went was in the deep layer of feeling settled. The feelings did to the surface, would sprout like the juices of nature. may be wanted to live, live it up, let off steam. Where
feelings may no longer be, they drop into the ground. And there they carry on their "mischief". This is the real background of the increasingly occurring "off-the-balance-being." And that's the whole idea behind this carnival.
The spirits are no longer respected, and have no place to be marginalized and domesticated, which now appear on other levels.
Instead of "Aimless wandering" is now "fasting", which is already a lifeless shift the whole incident, an ins-reverse-reversal.
If "Aimless wandering" the highest means of being alive, it means "fast" to the contrary, Lifelessness, tightness, stiffness and numbness.
Just what the church wanted.


In this sense, all who celebrate, have a good time!