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Clean Monday

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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 …

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Spring’s Celebrations

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Spring, the time of the rebirth of nature and the emotional empowerment of man, took its name from the verb open (ανοίγνυμι-ανοίγω in Greek), the ancient Greek term “έαρ” from which the term spring equinox derives (Δορμπαράκη, 1971). The term refers to the rebirth of nature, to the “opening” of seeds and fruit trees and …

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