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Christmas. Content 1 Christian Christmas 2 Tradition Lithuania 3 Origins 4 Christmas today. Christian Christmas The Nativity. Tradition Lithuania At Christmas it was up early. Origins Solar return holidays rapidly formed emergence of agriculture and livestock. Christmas today Christmas train in Vilnius in.

Content 1 Christian Christmas 2 Tradition Lithuania 3 Origins 4 Christmas today.

Christian Christmas The Nativity Story is mainly based on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. According to these Gospels Christ gave birth to the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem, where she and her husband, Joseph, was temporarily staying. Followers believe the birth of Christ - is Judaism of fulfilled prophecy of the Messiah (the prophet). Early Christians celebrated Epiphany at a later date and the date of birth to begin only after a few centuries. Now it is considered that Jesus was born on December 25, although the exact date of birth is not divided.

Tradition Lithuania At Christmas it was up early, stripped Christmas table, seen or visited a ghost. Since the table was a partial hay for livestock. The traditional Christmas meal was the boar or pork. Before Christmas, often slaughtered pig slaughter and performed the rites. Slaughtered pigs head decorate with greens. Pork eating and sacrifice was a magical means of increasing land productivity. The first day of Christmas people were serious about, nowhere to go outside, nothing works, they practiced divination.