Eastern Orthodox Christmas traditions. Koliada -January 6 -7
Koliada or koleda is an ancientpre-Christian Slavic and Baltic winter festival. It was later incorporated into Christmas.
Vertep
Vertepny theater is a Christmas performance by means of a puppet show, sometimes also with the participation of human actors. It was distributed mainly on the territory of Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, in some regions of Russia. A nativity scene in this case is also called Vertep is a special box in which a puppet show is shown.
Twelfth Night (holiday) – January 5
Twelfth Night (also known as Epiphany Eve) is a festival in some branches of Christianity that takes place on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the coming of the Epiphany. Different traditions mark the date of Twelfth Night as either 5 January or 6 January, depending on whether the counting begins on Christmas or 26 December.
Be Afraid Be Very Afraid
As a guest at a medieval manse, I recall my bravado when late at night I was invited to enter the unsealed wooden door of a forbidding garret. My hosts stood well back as cautiously I opened the door to peer into a blackness. Other than the darkness I couldn’t see anything but was aware of what I describe tersely as a hideous malevolent entity inviting me to enter. Slamming the garret door shut I fearfully retreated.
Dia de Los Reyes Magos (Three Kings’ Day) – January 6
January 6th is a very important holiday in Spain as the entire country celebrates the Epiphany, or Dia de Los Reyes Magos. On the eve of Epiphany (January 5th), every city, town, and village prepares for the arrival of the Three Kings of the Orient by organizing various processions and fiestas, including the famous La Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos, an exciting parade and a cultural experience in its own right.
Herbert von Karajan History’s Most Successful Musician
Every age should have its giants; men who will not only reach the epoch of their calling but become a master of other men’s crafts. Herbert von Karajan (April 5 1908 – July 16 1989) was such a man. Many regard him as the greatest conductor ever to mount the podium, the greatest translator of Europe’s classical music.
New Year’s concerts from the Vienna Philharmonic to Jean-Michel Jarre
Partying at home on New Year’s? Here’s a list of livestream events that will bring pop, rock and classical music concerts straight to the living room.
How Blood-Stained Stalin allowed the celebration of the New Year
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF as throughout much of the European Union (EU) Christmas and New Year, under the guise of Covid-19 lockdowns Christmas and New Year 2020 are banned. People may not gather to celebrate Christmas mass, attend Church services in numbers, celebrate the New Year. Sections of stores given over to selling children’s toys, tinsel and garlands, tableware for Christmas festivities. Even Christmas-related food stuffs are declared illegal. Nothing makes sense unless one understands the nature of Bolshevism, which is now called Globalism and ‘diversity’.
EUROPE RENAISSANCE WISHES YOU A HAPPY 2021
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ (L. P Hartley: The Go-Between)
One supposes it is best to avoid a post mortem (after death) on the year 2020 AD (A Disaster). In terms of evil intent and deed by truly sinister forces and their globalist acolytes, the year 2020 can only be compared to the apocalyptic years 1914, 1917 and 1939. The effects could well reach further and deeper into the abyss.
Robots from Boston Dynamics congratulated everyone with a New Year’s dance (video)
The American company Boston Dynamics, which produces robots, has published a specific New Year’s greetings on social networks.
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