2. Masopust is a traditional Czech
Carnival.
It combines a number of old fertility
rites and customs like the driving out
of winter.
Its existence and origins are well
documented in early mythology
and primitive drawings. In the center
of primitive religious rites and rituals
stand the mask, dance and the
procession. The human desire to
disguise, to assume a different role, is
as old as humankind itself.
