The word carnival also comes from that time. During the bacanales, to Baco the Ditirambo was sung to him; the choir that did went disguised of satyr and in front of him a boat appeared the priest of the God leading on wheels to which they called "carrus navalis" (marine or naval car), and that the Romans pronounced "to car navalis" Whereas carnestolendas, as also the flame to the carnival, comes from "expensive", meats, and "tollo", to cover, terms that would seem to allude to the disguise.

The devotion of the man to use you chewed can be or in old Egypt or Greece, and even in the Japanese theater. But in the carnival itself it was Italy the one that adopted the mask, more indeed Venice, where it was used not only like joy vehicle but that it served to keep the incognito and to enjoy impunity in revenges and conspiracies, although also facilitated romances and love affairs.

The custom to throw different types from elements also was inherited of the Romans, who amused themselves throwing with force candies of mint, rose or anise to the face of the passers-by; of that I live was that the perforated paper was adopted. But this, as we know it nowadays, it had its origin in the press of Paris. There, a worker who perforated sheets of papers of colors, when seeing to fall the leftover small circles joined them and he gave its to your son; flattery not only caused nation between the children but also in the adults, who began to order bags to him of pricked paper to throw it during the days of carnival.

With running of the years, the carnival took different forms and styles according to each country. When arriving at America it incorporated native elements and to it reached pre-Columbian mystical borders, for example in Oruro. In Argentina, each province gave its touch him of distinction to this celebration; as far as the Buenosairean carnivals, their mascaradas dances and were famous in colonial times, and they even got to be reason for scandal, like the "fandango" that was danced in the House of Comedies. É virrey Vértiz implanted the dances in the closed premises to avoid the street manifestations, but after the historical events of May of 1810 it was common between the population to play in intense form with water, taking advantage of for it all class of containers, from modest jarros to full eggs of liquid ostrich, living itself in the streets almost wild encounter.

In the days of Roses the excesses arrived at such point that he himself, after fomenting the carnival, suppressed it by means of a decree. According to later chronicles, the Buenosairean carnivals more brilliants were lived during the presidency of Domingo F. Sarmiento, that had weakness by this celebration. The one of 1869 was one of the most remembered and, in addition to it impresses to the governor, serious the initial kick for many comparsas that became famous.