In Greece in December is marked by the Christmas holiday. But it is not
as in other Christian religions, the largest party in the annual cycle. Far more important is the Easter celebration. And in earlier centuries, the Epiphany on 6 hard January (Theofania) is more important than Christmas.
customs at a fixed
the Christmas tree may well have introduced the Bavarian Prince Otto, who reigned from 1832 as the first king of the then newly established Kingdom. Alignment and commercialization of traditions of different countries in today's globalized world, did the rest to the fact that today, at first glance, the Christmas decorations appear quite similar to ours. So today many Greeks decorate a Christmas tree, although spruce and fir trees are scarce in the country and there are older and more meaningful for Greece are filled customs that persist and you are back remembers growing.
The Karavaki, the Christmas Boat
An important symbol of the great maritime nation is Griechienland for Christmas the ship. Families make up at home small boats with a light in it that during the holidays until the Epiphany on 6-day January burns. Some of them see it as a shrine to the sailors of the family, the feast on the high seas take place in the circle of Their spending.
also on some public places are lighter decorated boats instead of Christmas trees, for example in the Aristotle Square in Thessaloniki , in the municipal theater in Piraeus and in the city of Chania in Crete and the island Chios .
Decorated olive branches
some cases, such as on Lesbos replaced, sometimes with a decorated gilded nuts and oranges olive branch to conifer.
mess and 12-day Christmas
gifts for the children in Greece not on 24 December, but only on 6 January, the Epifani tag. Instead, the kids go on 24 December, from door to door and who - accompanied by metal triangles - very old and regionally different songs, the so-called Kalanda. As a reward, there is some money or small gifts. This begins the dodekaimero called twelve-day Christmas period. Preceding her was a strictly forty days, but usually reduced to three days of Lent.
goblins
Kalikantzari called the red-eyed, hairy, nocturnal, mischievous goblins, which can cause all sorts of mischief, delete, such as the stove fire and let the milk sour. To to banish them, must at Christmas time when they leave their other quarters under the ground, always burn a fire in the house. The same objective in a water bowl with a basil branch and a cross, is mottled from the day. Christmas cookies are traditional Christmas pastries and syrup soaked Melomakarona Kourambiedes called butter cookies with almonds and powdered sugar. In many families it is tradition too large, ornate body sweet bread that Christopsomo to bake.
as in other Christian religions, the largest party in the annual cycle. Far more important is the Easter celebration. And in earlier centuries, the Epiphany on 6 hard January (Theofania) is more important than Christmas.
customs at a fixed
the Christmas tree may well have introduced the Bavarian Prince Otto, who reigned from 1832 as the first king of the then newly established Kingdom. Alignment and commercialization of traditions of different countries in today's globalized world, did the rest to the fact that today, at first glance, the Christmas decorations appear quite similar to ours. So today many Greeks decorate a Christmas tree, although spruce and fir trees are scarce in the country and there are older and more meaningful for Greece are filled customs that persist and you are back remembers growing.
The Karavaki, the Christmas Boat
An important symbol of the great maritime nation is Griechienland for Christmas the ship. Families make up at home small boats with a light in it that during the holidays until the Epiphany on 6-day January burns. Some of them see it as a shrine to the sailors of the family, the feast on the high seas take place in the circle of Their spending.
also on some public places are lighter decorated boats instead of Christmas trees, for example in the Aristotle Square in Thessaloniki , in the municipal theater in Piraeus and in the city of Chania in Crete and the island Chios .
Decorated olive branches
some cases, such as on Lesbos replaced, sometimes with a decorated gilded nuts and oranges olive branch to conifer.
mess and 12-day Christmas
gifts for the children in Greece not on 24 December, but only on 6 January, the Epifani tag. Instead, the kids go on 24 December, from door to door and who - accompanied by metal triangles - very old and regionally different songs, the so-called Kalanda. As a reward, there is some money or small gifts. This begins the dodekaimero called twelve-day Christmas period. Preceding her was a strictly forty days, but usually reduced to three days of Lent.
goblins
Kalikantzari called the red-eyed, hairy, nocturnal, mischievous goblins, which can cause all sorts of mischief, delete, such as the stove fire and let the milk sour. To to banish them, must at Christmas time when they leave their other quarters under the ground, always burn a fire in the house. The same objective in a water bowl with a basil branch and a cross, is mottled from the day. Christmas cookies are traditional Christmas pastries and syrup soaked Melomakarona Kourambiedes called butter cookies with almonds and powdered sugar. In many families it is tradition too large, ornate body sweet bread that Christopsomo to bake.
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