A celebratory symbolic day is Tsiknopempti and this is an annual ceremony, the origin of which is lost over the centuries. The most likely version is that it comes from the Bacchus festivals of the ancient Greeks and is one of the few that managed to be preserved. Tsiknopempti is in the 2nd week of …
A well-known Pontiac food is pisi (pl. pisia). Pisi is a type of pie, which takes its name because it is fried. The word pisi is Turkish and we asked Mrs. Anatoli Chatzisavva, who we photographed making them, for the recipe, the implementation and for further information about pisia. Mrs. Anatoli has been making pisia …
Clean Monday is the first Monday after Carnival. It means the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent, the Easter fast of the Orthodox with a duration of 40 days, as many days as Christ fasted in the desert. It symbolizes purity, as the meat-eating during Shrove is followed by the great seven week …
In the elaborate hand-crafting of charms, these small jewels that sometimes adorn the doors of the house and sometimes a wall at home or at the office or another personal space, small symbolic objects are used, which the skilled artists use in their construction. Everything is taken from the life and action of man! A …
