Post by Charlotte on Dec 31, 2018 12:37:21 GMT -5
We call the day Sylvester, honouring Saint Sylvester.
Anticipating a wonderful New Year Ball, work seemed easy during the last day of a given year, which ending at midnight is identical to the beginning of the New Year, hence we wish each other a "guten Rutsch", a 'sliding' into the new year, not a step which would create a space of disconnet, and we know nature abhors a vacuum
It may also be that the person who coined the phrase helped a very drunk person to move out of the way by pushing him aside which caused the drunk person to 'rutsch', and it stuck.
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Sometimes we express our good wishes with a happy post cards, pigs, amanita muscaria, a lady bug or two, and a chimney sweep, all associated with good luck.
"As in many other countries, the germans celebrate Sylvester with fireworks, champagne, and boisterous social gatherings. Making noise is the key: the ruckus of fireworks, fircrackers, drums, whip-cracking and banging kitchen utensils has been driving away evil winter spirits since the days of the Germanic Teutons."
I don't thinks the Teutonic Knights had to do with driving out evil spirits, maybe they associated more with the Trade Guild of the Chimney Sweeps, which can be thought of as sweeping the chimney of a house, below, or sweeping the accumilated soot from last year out of our brains.
"Besides being a fun spectacle, the light of pyrotechnic displays also provides a surrogate sun during the dark Sylvester night. Suffering the winter bleakness in their northern regions more than anyone, the Teutons feared the sun, which they thought of as a wheel that rolled around the earth, was slowing to stop during the darkest day of winter. Perhaps as a sign of protest, they lit wooden wheels on fire and sent them rolling down mountains and clubbed trees with flaming cudgels. These practices are likely forerunners to the Sylvester firework tradition."
The Teutons fearing the sun, thinking it was a wheel rolling around the sun which slowed on the darkest day of winter, is the interpretation of like-thinking people who tell that the ancient Egyptians believed the sun died every day and was reborn the next.
Special evening, this Sylvester
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Anticipating a wonderful New Year Ball, work seemed easy during the last day of a given year, which ending at midnight is identical to the beginning of the New Year, hence we wish each other a "guten Rutsch", a 'sliding' into the new year, not a step which would create a space of disconnet, and we know nature abhors a vacuum
It may also be that the person who coined the phrase helped a very drunk person to move out of the way by pushing him aside which caused the drunk person to 'rutsch', and it stuck. journalofantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/2004/01/HearthToHearth2004-01e.jpg
Sometimes we express our good wishes with a happy post cards, pigs, amanita muscaria, a lady bug or two, and a chimney sweep, all associated with good luck.
"As in many other countries, the germans celebrate Sylvester with fireworks, champagne, and boisterous social gatherings. Making noise is the key: the ruckus of fireworks, fircrackers, drums, whip-cracking and banging kitchen utensils has been driving away evil winter spirits since the days of the Germanic Teutons."
I don't thinks the Teutonic Knights had to do with driving out evil spirits, maybe they associated more with the Trade Guild of the Chimney Sweeps, which can be thought of as sweeping the chimney of a house, below, or sweeping the accumilated soot from last year out of our brains.
"Besides being a fun spectacle, the light of pyrotechnic displays also provides a surrogate sun during the dark Sylvester night. Suffering the winter bleakness in their northern regions more than anyone, the Teutons feared the sun, which they thought of as a wheel that rolled around the earth, was slowing to stop during the darkest day of winter. Perhaps as a sign of protest, they lit wooden wheels on fire and sent them rolling down mountains and clubbed trees with flaming cudgels. These practices are likely forerunners to the Sylvester firework tradition."
The Teutons fearing the sun, thinking it was a wheel rolling around the sun which slowed on the darkest day of winter, is the interpretation of like-thinking people who tell that the ancient Egyptians believed the sun died every day and was reborn the next.
Special evening, this Sylvester
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