The emergence of CARNIVAL ...
CARNIVAL appeared about 10,000 years
before Christ when men, women and children would gather in the summer with
masked faces and bodies painted to scare away the demons of poor harvest. These were the first carnival celebrations.
In the mid 600-520 before Christ, the Greeks practiced cult to the god Dionysus, in
gratitude for soil fertility and production.
Already in Rome, a homage was made to the god
Saturn; these feasts were so important that courts and schools closed their doors during the event.
The people left to the streets to dance and there
were a lot of drinks, "allegorical floats" in ship format came out in
the "avenue", with naked men and women. The euphoria was general.
These were called the navalis carrum. Hence the carnavale
expression, today carnival.
These parties were not accepted by
the church, only with the passage of time has this celebration become accepted.
In Portugal, Carnival is known
as Entrudo, a period before the Quaresma / Lent and that's how it was exported to Brazil,
as entrudo. At this party people threw water, eggs and flour one another.
In countries like Italy and France, carnival was a parade through the streets, where people were using masks
and costumes.
