705 Basque and Balkan Carnival; Sicilians; World Lit
Travel with Rick Steves
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Carnival - The Easter Bunny in the Bible?
Carnival, in fact, starts as pagan traditions. Literally carnival is a bacchanalia. So it goes back to Roman traditions, Bacchus, the God of wine and jollity. And so many of these European carnival traditions, anything goes. The low can rise to become the high. When you're all drunk, everyone's equal.
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