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carnival traditions
Carnival traditions go back to the distant past. But historians have not yet come to a common denominator about how remote this is. In fact, there are two points of view - ancient and medieval. Some experts (primarily historians) see the roots of mass folk festivals with copious libations, ritual gluttony and other obscenities in ancient dionysia and bacchanalia. Others (mostly Medievalists) believe that these traditions died out during the Middle Ages and that medieval carnivals have nothing to do with them. Apparently, both are right, as is usually the case when discussing the historical roots of complex social and cultural phenomena. It is safe to say that in its form carnival is a completely pagan event, although in the Middle Ages it was conditionally "embedded" in the system of Christian holidays. In that era, all holidays had a religious connotation, but carnival had it least of all.