March, μάρτης, мартеница, мартина, mărțișor, verore etc...
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by THRAX and RUMELIAN
The March and the arrival of spring is celebrating throughout the Balkans (martis, martenittsa, martinka, mărțișor, mart's, verore etc).
In all Balkan regions the people wear talisman - ornaments made of white and red string, to avoid "burn" from the sun, for health, for good harvest etc. The martenittsa, martinka, mărțișor, mart's, verore etc is wearing until the end of the Mart or when until you see the first swallow…
Let’s see where all this folklore tradition starts…
In ancient Greece in the end of today’s February (those days Anthestirion, or for the translation the “month of florescence”) was started the first phase of the Eleusinian Mysteries (of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, these were held to be the ones of greatest importance) for the cult of Demetra (goddess of the harvest and agriculture) and her daughter Persephone.
Guess what the people participated in the Eleusinian Mysteries wear… yes, talisman - ornaments made of white and red string or fabric called “Kroki” tied on the right arm and the left leg…
In ancient Greece and in Byzantium days (in wich was a great feast) the people was celebrated the begging of March with the great activities, the Chelidonismata (or for the translation the “swallow things”). The kids wearing the talisman – ornaments we all know are going from door to door singing small songs about the black and white swallow and asking for gifts and money and wishing health and good harvest for the people of the house…
It was a small text, because there are plenty of more evidences for the above, about what we are celebrating and doing today and its origin.
Let’s celebrate the March all together proud that we keep an ancient Greek tradition alive…
Good March to everyone
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Good March o7
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martenitsa
What is Greek is only Greek but also
what is Bulgarian is ONLY BULGARIAN!!
lol... wiki? yeah yeah
Greeks wearing red white ornaments you do, the same days you do and for the same reasons you do some thousends of years before you and this is Bulgarian...
FYROMIAN logic
lol the english version of the Wikipedia is not like the other versions!! There are admins who check everytjing that is being changed ad if some change is not supported with a fact or a trusted source its removed!!You can't label everything that you don't like FYROMIAN!!
Moreover...DON'T YOU EVER CALL ME FYROMIAN!!!!!
I still haven't made a single hit for serbia and FYROM and I still haven't made a single hit against Greece for original Greek region!! Can you say the same for you?? You become a turk lover!! And you say that I have a FYROMIAN logic!! Funny
TheManiacBG i didnt called you fyromian, i called your logic as a fyromian logic because thats the way it is...
please answer me how can it be the Greeks celebrating the same things you do, wearing the same ornaments you do, the same days you do and for the same reasons you do some thousends of years before you and this is Bulgarian...
and for the wiki.... Romanians say the same as you, Albanians say the same as you, FYROMians for sure say that is Macedonian custom in english versions of wiki... just check it..
as for the game i hit where the orders are i dont mix it with feelings, but if i do it sometime the only country that i will never hit is gonna be Serbia
i know that for some people its hard but truth hurts...
after all in the wiki YOU send me says: The tradition is related to the ancient pagan history of Balkan Peninsula and to all agricultural cults of nature. Some of the specific features of the ritual and especially tying the twisted white and red woolen thread, are a result of centuries-old tradition and suggest Thracian (paleo-Balkan) Hellenic or even Roman origin.[2]
Честита Баба Марта!