31/12/2020 13:06
The passage to a new year has been accompanied since ancient times by customs and rituals that are being observed even to this date, particularly in Romanian villages, as reported by AGERPRES.
Reputed ethnologist Ion Ghinoiu, PhD, Professor and scientific secretary of the Constantin Brailoiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy, coordinator of the Romanian Ethnographic Atlas, writes in the volume Romanian Holidays and Customs (ELION Publishing House, 2003) that New Year s Eve celebration is nothing more than a funerary ceremonial of Geto-Dacian antiquity on the death and symbolic rebirth, on the night of December 31 to January 1, of the first god of mankind, the Year, and of calendar time it is related to.
Romania: Romanian New Year s traditions and customs
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Traditii, obiceiuri si superstitii de Revelion Ce se intampla in noaptea magica dintre ani
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Yes, 2020 was the year of COVID. But here’s a timeline of the other interesting stuff that happened in Utah last year, too.
January: Impeachment, Sundance and Condomgate
Jon Reed
The Sundance Film Festival drew more than 100,000 people to Park City Utah.
The year began with the end of the controversial Southern Red Sands Mine project in Kanab, and by the middle of January there was just one thing at the top of people’s minds: Impeachment.
It was also this month that the Utah Department of Health faced its first crisis of the year: Condomgate. Gov. Gary Herbert quickly blocked the HIV prevention campaign that sent out thousands of condoms with sex-positive, Utah-themed packaging. But his plan to protect Utahns from such tastlessness wasn’t entirely effective full sets of the profalactics with messages like “Greatest Sex on Earth and “Explore Utah’s Caves” appeared on Ebay days later.