Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 1, 2004, 12:07 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> Dumb question for Isidora and others: do you Eastern Orthodox types
> also celebrate the Julian New Year, or the Gregorian, or both?
Most of *really devoted* EOs I know celebrate no New Year at all.
Some less rigorous give certain attention to St.Basil's Day (coinciding with the
Julian New Year).
But the most specific phenomenon in ex-USSR is a so-called "Old New Year", that
is the Julian one, and locals get drunk twice: on Dec 31 and on Jan 13.
-- Yitzik from Ukraine where 2/3 of population claims to be EO (not me! not me!)
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