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Christmas traditions

Holidays and folk customs , grouped around the winter solstice ( December 20 to January 7 ) , called generic winter holiday . Is opened and closed during the holidays prefaced by Christmas Eve , so Christmas , and Epiphany , and intersected in the middle of New Year's Eve . main winter holiday cycle Christmas , New Year, Epiphany - worked over time as independent moments of renewal of time and beginning of the year . The Romans used , besides the official calendar , recognized by the State and the Church , an unofficial calendar - popular calendar - created by people and sent folk . Unlike the official church calendar and the civil calendar , which is a simple table of the days grouped by weeks and months , popular calendar indicate the time for plowing and sowing for petit and engaged to ancestral heritage or finding a soul mate , etc. . Holidays and folk customs that take place within a day or several days , daytime or nighttime , the date fixed or mobile , dedicated calendar divinities , humans, animals , birds , plants, terrestrial and cosmic phenomena are known and respected in some areas ethnographic until today. Some took the name Christian saints , others have no connection with Christianity ( " Caloianul " " Paparuda " " Dragaica " etc. . ) Or are about to be treated as Christmas, Christianity Carpathians. Divinity inherited from the native substrate , Thracian and Greek if , the borrower and the Greco- Roman similea and Oriental peoples , ancestral and mythical creations and compose an original Romanian pantheon Ignat is solar deity who took the name and date of the celebration of St. Ignatius Theophany (December 20) in the Orthodox calendar, synonymous with Ignatius of Pigs - the dawn of Ignat cut pig for Christmas - and Inatoarea. According to the timetable popular Inatoarea representation Romanian mythical pantheon, punishes women who are caught working (spin or weave) Ignat day. The animal is sacrificed on this day substitute god who dies and is reborn. Along with time, the winter solstice. In ancient times, the pig was a symbol of vegetation, spring, and winter's sacrifice transferred. Carols is a scenario composed of ceremonial texts (carols), magic formulas, dances, gestures, performed in the home, in the streets, a sacred substance. The popular calendar, this happens under different regional winter solstice periods. ("Star", "Little Plough", "Sorcerer"), spring equinox, summer solstice and fall equinox. Carols send wishes for health, rich fruit, wish fulfillment in the new year. Carols is the most prevalent tradition of the Romans. When people do not get carol singers, close doors or offer gifts, magical effects are opposite, they breaking the rules of this custom. The Christmas tree is a decorated tree, substitute the god worshiped in the position fitoforma, who dies and is reborn at the end of the year, near the winter solstice, hub synonymous with Christmas. Adorning the tree and wait for the kids to "Santa" called, in south-eastern Europe, Christmas, which comes with many gifts, is a western custom which penetrated from city to village, starting from the second half of the nineteenth century. Christmas tree superimposed over an older custom of cremation hub (the god of the dead) on Christmas Eve, symbolizing death and rebirth of the divine and the winter solstice, was certified custom of the Romans, Macedo, Latvians and Serbo-Croatian.

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