On February 27, 1827, a group of masked and costumed students dance through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, marking the beginning of the city’s famous Mardi Gras celebrations.
The celebration of Carnival–or the weeks between Twelfth Night on January 6 and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Christian period of Lent–spread from Rome across Europe and later to the Americas. Nowhere in the United States is Carnival celebrated as grandly as in New Orleans, famous for its over-the-top parades and parties for Mardi Gras (or Fat Tuesday), the last day of the Carnival season.
Early French settlers brought the tradition of Mardi Gras to the U.S. Gulf Coast at the end of the 17th century. In fact, Mobile, Alabama celebrated its first carnival in 1703. However, Spanish governors later banned the celebrations. After Louisiana Territory became part of the United States in 1803, New Orleanians managed to convince the city council to lift the ban on wearing masks and partying in the streets. The city’s new Mardi Gras tradition began in 1827 when the group of students, inspired by their experiences studying in Paris, donned masks and jester costumes and staged their own Fat Tuesday festivities.
The parties grew more and more popular, and in 1833 a rich plantation owner named Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville raised money to fund an official Mardi Gras celebration. After rowdy revelers began to get violent during the 1850s, a secret society called the Mistick Krewe of Comus staged the first large-scale, well-organized Mardi Gras parade in 1857.
Over time, hundreds of krewes formed, building elaborate and colorful floats for parades held over the two weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday. Riders on the floats are usually local citizens who toss “throws” at passersby, including metal coins, stuffed toys or those now-infamous strands of beads. Though many tourists mistakenly believe Bourbon Street and the historic French Quarter are the heart of Mardi Gras festivities, none of the major parades have been allowed to enter the area since 1979 because of its narrow streets.
In February 2006, New Orleans held its Mardi Gras celebrations despite the fact that Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the city with massive flooding the previous August. Attendance was at only 60-70 percent of the 300,000-400,000 visitors who usually attend Mardi Gras, but the celebration marked an important step in the recovery of the city, which counts on hospitality and tourism as its single largest industry.
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And then, in 1991…
the New Orleans City Council, led by Democrat Dorothy Mae Taylor, passed an ordinance that required private social organizations (as in clubs), including Mardi Gras Krewes, to certify publicly that they did not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation, in order to obtain parade permits and other public licensure.
In effect the ordinance required these, and other private social groups to abandon their traditional code of secrecy and identify their members for the city’s Human Relations Commission. The Comus organization (along with Momus and Proteus, other 19th-century Krewes) withdrew from parading, rather than identify its membership.
Two Federal courts later decided that the ordinance was an unconstitutional infringement on First Amendment rights of free association and an unwarranted intrusion into the privacy of the groups subject to the ordinance.
Despite the Circuit Court ruling, the Krewe of Comus has not returned to the streets to parade. The Krewe of Proteus later returned.
Mardi Gras in NOLA was never the same.
So, Mardi Gras has been destroyed by uncivilized, incompetent, White-enabled, low-I.Q. Negro filth.
Just ANOTHER reason to never visit the murder capital of America.
The word Mistick (or mystik as is the current spelling) made me do a little research. And sure enough I found a number of links to freemasonry.
Lent is not found in the bible as anything God wants us to do but rather not to do – and, as correctly noted, spread from catholic Rome.
So where does lent originate from?
We have to go way back to Nimrod’s ancient Babel (Babylon), the first one world dictatorship.
The story line is, that Nimrod’s son Tammuz died in a freak hunting accident. His birthday is still celebrated today on December 25th. His death is commemorated at the end of winter with the 40 days of lent as a time of mourning and fasting, one day for each year of his life, culminating in his resurrection on easter morning. Easter (Ishtar, Oster, Ashera – depending on language) is the mother of Tammuz transformed into the sun godess or queen of heaven.
Much of this is mentioned in Ezekiel chapter 8:
14 And He brought me to the opening of the gate of the house of Yehovah, toward the north. And, behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
15 And He said to me, Have you seen, son of man? You turn again and you shall see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah. And, behold, at the opening of the temple of Yehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men with their backs to the temple of Yehovah, and their faces eastward. And they bowed themselves eastward to the sun.
The prophet Jeremiah speaks of worshiping the queen of heaven.
And then there are the masks.
Yeshua has a few things to say about hypocrites, as you may know. Hypocrite is a greek word meaning actor in English. Actors in ancient theaters used to wear masks.
The Message bible has a unique translation of 2 Corinthians 4:2:
We refuse to wear masks and play games. We don’t maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes. And we don’t twist God’s Word to suit ourselves. Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open, the whole truth on display, so that those who want to can see and judge for themselves in the presence of God.
Conclusion:
Carnival is another distraction instigated by Lucifer to keep people away from Yehovah. And of course it was brought to America by the humanist french who also gave America a statue of the sun godess, which is placed at the harbor of New York.
Excellent!
You, sir, are a biblical scholar. Thanks for your input.
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Mardi Gras and Christ don’t go together.
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