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 …
Kolliva are boiled wheat, a symbol of the human body, because the human body feeds and grows on it. We take them to the Church at the funeral of the deceased, at memorial days, but also on Psyhoshavvato, Saturday that is dedicated to dead people, giving in that way a special symbolism. The wheat, symbolizes …
As a flower withers and as a blossom everyone fades away and is dissolved Read More »
Rock engraving or rock carvings have been found in the Pyrenees (Spain and France) but according archeologists the oldest are located and are being studied in Greece, documents deals with thousands of them, many of painted one on the other, discovered in the open air as well as in overhanging rocks, formed shelters and inside …
Pre historic rock engraving in the ancient area of Philippi, Eastern Macedonia Read More »
