The Syrians are the first to create Love Day

As the world celebrates Love Day, or so – called Valentine’s Day, the scholar and historian Haidar Naisah confirms to “Tishreen” Newspaper that Valentine’s Day is not limited to Saint Valentine’s, Syrians have known this ancient feast, demonstrating that Syria’s Valentine’s Day was known as Torch’s Day, which reflects the beginning of fertile life on Earth.

Naisah added, “The ancient Syrians worked to form a heritage symbol expressed by a bird called the Al-Qrandash, as this bird was the messenger of love between lovers. It is the same Eros, the Greek god of love and the grandfather of Cupid, the winged Roman child. Because the Greeks and Romans are not spiritual, they changed the symbol of the bird, keeping only the wings of the bird and replacing its body with the body of a child, and instead of whispering love, they carried him a bow that throws love arrows into the hearts, as confirmed by the orientalist Salvador Nogales.

According to Naisah, the Al-Qrandash, which fires a flame of love between lovers, became a festival, spread over the Mediterranean basin areas, and was called the Feast of the Flame.”

“The existence of the Syrian lovebird is confirmed by a mosaic painting in the Maarrat   al – Naaman Museum of Idlib Province, where a drawing of the Al-Qrandash bird was found to confirm who created the feast of love, the Syrians,” Naisah concluded.

Amal Farhat