Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; FEMEN.org(CTFxC) Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street, New Orleans: adults play in a Dionysian display
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Carnal and hedonistic cravings come over one before revelers retire to a Lenten period of religious reflection and guilt, at least for practitioners of French and Roman Catholicism but maybe not so much for followers of Santeria, Voodoo/Houdou, Satanism, and/or Protestantism.
The best thing about being Catholic is that, before the penitent ascetic period of
Lent, there is the wanton excess and guilty delights of
Carnivale (flesh-fest, "leaving behind
carne" or meat), which comes to a climax on
Mardi Gras or "Fat[tening up] Tuesday," the last chance to grow obese by eating slaughtered animals (other than fish, insects, and whatever other way of cheating there is) for 40 days.
In Brazil and other Catholic strongholds, the feast/fest is bigger than
India's Eunuchs' Festival, a time of homosexual debauchery because they are not really eunuchs. The problem is one of translation for the odd and ill defined
Buddhist term pandaka, which means something more like "pervert," sodomite, transsexual, transgender,
third gender (Thai
kathoey), transvestite, hermaphrodite, receptive or effeminate homosexual, rapacious
pansexual, sex addict, and/or gender nonnormative individual.
(CJO/cdbaby.com) Boobs, booze, and exhibitionism on Bourbon St., USA
It is likely that
pandakas rather than gays were excluded from monastic participation in accordance with the Disciplinary Code. But for the ancients, what was "gay" and what was "perverse" were different from our changing definitions.
Pandaka is
Sanskrit, meaning "without testicles, hermaphroditic, or homosexual."
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Who celebrates pre-lenten festivals?
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Carnivale is traditionally held in areas with a large Catholic and to a lesser extent, Eastern Orthodox makeup. Protestant areas usually do not have such celebrations or have modified traditions, such as the
Danish Carnival or other
Shrove Tuesday events. Conversely, the
Philippines, although a predominantly Roman Catholic country, does
not celebrate Carnival because it has been culturally influenced by neighboring Buddhist Asian nations, which do not (
philstar.com).
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