Merry Christmas! like, again!

[avrelia]

Other than that the mean cold has cauhgt with me, and I feel disgusting. I should be doing fun stuff, yet I don't. Slowly writing several long posts, that I eventually hope to post this weekend - if I have time, because it is looking to be busy.

Or, and it is the Christmas Eve for me, finally. I don't do anything specific, and I would be really confused if anyone asked me to do something, but I still consider this day special.

Several years ago (10-14 years ago) I would be fortune-telling right now - using various weird means like burning paper on a skillet and others. The way of surviving Russian customs boggles me to no end.

Our pagan ways managed well through Christianity, and state-approved atheism, and all kinds of enlightenment. I mean, it is not what it was before, but when I think of origins of some stuff, I realize that it goes a way back, so way, it isn’t funny. But, I guess, other cultures have their pagan rudiments as well – I mean not in books, in myths, in but in the general life habits.

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[elisi]

Merry Christmas! Actually went to church yesterday - it was a service for the school children, very sweet!

other cultures have their pagan rudiments as well – I mean not in books, in myths, in but in the general life habits.

We just tend not to think about it - there must be books about it somewhere, it'd make fascinating reading.

Also thank you SO MUCH for your wonderful comment! You cheered me up no end! *many, many many hugs*

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I ususally don't think about it as well, those things are so common, that everyone doing without thingking twice about its meaning.

Like not greeting over the threshold, or the necessity to sit before the long journey...