Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day Origin of the heart shape
harold posted on Feb 10, 2007 at 03:04PM
The traditional "heart shape" - two curved lobes tapering to a point at the bottom - has an unclear origin, possibly coming to us from several differing sources. Here are some popular theories, roughly organized in chronological order of their appearance:
* a representation of female genitalia * a medieval attempt to represent what the scientifically-unknown heart organ looked like * a representation of the imprint that a lipstick kiss makes on a piece of paper |