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Latvia and ESTONIA
The oldest Christmas tradition in Estonia takes place on Christmas Eve when the whole family goes to visit the sauna together.
Interesting.
Do any Estos here do this?
n Latvia, "Big Zimmer," the Latvian Santa Claus, brings presents not on just one day, but 12 days in a row. It's also here in Latvia that the Christmas tree tradition was first celebrated, although the holiday doesn't celebrate Jesus, but the re-birth of the Sun Maiden.
Max that sounds pretty cool. Latvia knows whats up!
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please keep in mind that the christmas tree, nor the date on which we celebrate christmas has anything to do with jezus. 25 december has always been a celebration, even before christanity had a break through in europe. The celebration was here to celebrate the event of de shortest day, from now on the get longer till the 21st of june. Christianity just took the opportunity to ram the birth of jezus thru our troats (since people kept celebrating old traditions and the church didn't like them doing that, so they stole the celebrations)
Major
Roughly translating our celebration means Winter Celebration, the day in which night is the longest.
And our 'Santa' is named Salavecis, meaning, Freezing/Frozen Man
Dunno about the 12 days in row...that`s just for me, cuz my birthday is on the 3rd of January
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Ohhh , it is nice to learn about other lands traditions
Mags ☼
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"From hence forth, Christmas shall be known only as FESTIVUS!"
"Any Persons claiming that said Holiday has anything to do with Christianity, or any other Evil theologies shall be Banished to the realm of the foolish, to live their lives in ignorance"
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Originally Posted by -Z-
Do you really hate god this much?
Command Sergeant
I havent heard of the tradition of going to sauna with all the family.
We just eat, and eat a lot.
Corporal
We do have sauna at home but instead visiting the sauna together on Christmas Eve we watch TV and stuff.
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