What is the origin of the word carnival

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The first week Carnival said profoni or profonesimi, because, in past years one of some tall profonouse, ie trumpeted that the period of Carnival begins……. The second week called creatine or olokrigia, because during it not fasting. End, the third week called Tyrini, because during it, the main seasoning of food is cheese.

The beginning of the Triodion, ie and carnival, It is particularly noticeable Thursday creatine, the so-called Pancake Day. It is the day that everyone will "tsiknosei the corner", as they say, something that will cook and the smell of burning food from cooked meat, pork or else the air smells sweetly.

the disguises, which already met during the celebrations of the Twelve (Christmas) in only parts of B. Greece and the Sea - and there like custom Fading- Ash found throughout Greece, and the rest of Europe, to appear as their main trait. The name of masked differs from place to place: bell-, kamouzeles, mouskaroi - but the commonest is masqueraders and carnival derived from the Italian word maschera carnevale and. When E. Fehrle, The word comes from the ban on meat-eating, carne levare = meat farewell and means stopping the meat eaters.

The celebrations and costumes reminiscent of Dionysian worship, but in reality everything is older than Dionysus! It acts of the religion of primitive farmers, who sought ways of magic are acting in the vegetation of the fields, to enhance the strength fertilizes the earth, even before this force individualized in their imagination and become a god Fallin or Dionysus or another god of vegetation.

as noted above, the Greek people apokrefei, ie stops eating meat after eating Sunday of the second week, the so-called creatine. But the carnival itself with its many traditions is the last Sunday of Shrovetide. When you reach this Sunday, spanning the most of the cheer, disguises and dances. The day all passes by moving masquerades, visits and feast. The general noise exacerbate the firing of crackers and rockets, which in many places, particularly B.. Greece has long been used to fly in the air.

Once again it begins to get dark, then lit in village squares and streets of the city fires (lamps, kladaries, boubounes, Kapsalis), around which people sing and dance. The power and sanctity that people attaches to the spring fires shows us the name they have in some places. So, in Epirus Zagori great fire, which ignited after dinner Sunday of Shrovetide, called imagery.

The Clean Monday is the first day of Lent, so I called protonistimi Monday Archideftera. called Net, because the morning of that day every housewife is engaged in the clean up of cooking utensils from fat. No rule prohibiting wine. So that with a few olives, roe and green onions and the stock of happiness retained from the previous day, suffice and the day was not lacking in enthusiasm from the days of Carnival, except that the scene changes and all, large with meatless dishes have prepared, small kites to go to the countryside to make koulouma.

Source: C. A. Great, Greek Celebrations and Traditions of the People of Worship, ed. Odysseus

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