Zone1 the day of the 3 Magi on 6 january is a holiday in germany

the names of the Magi are ...

Caspar Melchior Balthasar 😊

do you also have the custom that children dress up as the Magi and go from door to door to write a blessing on the door?
 
irosie91 said:
there is a new holiday in my local---even newer than KWANZA-----MULCH DAY --citizens are
urged to bring their used christmas trees to local
centers to be shoved into chipping machines----
and get a FREE BAG OF MULCH
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interesting!

so you use the German word Mulch! 👍
 
rampart said:
beginning on king's day and each monday thereafter until mardi gras someone will bring a king cake to school or work.

each cake contains 1 plastic baby (when i was young they used pecans, shell and all, perhaps a symbol of fertility or rebirth?) whoever gets the baby provides the next weeks cake.

i've been interested in words that seen somehow anachronistic.

"sounding" was used to measure navigational depth long before audio frequencies were used for measurement.

you wrote one but i'll have to back up in the thread to find it. oh. it was me.

"king's day" was celebrated in the liturgical calendar for a thousand years before mrs presley delivered young elvis to his adoring fans.
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I am also interested in words! 👍

like Dreikönigstag ❤️😊
 
rampart said:
beginning on king's day and each monday thereafter until mardi gras someone will bring a king cake to school or work.

each cake contains 1 plastic baby (when i was young they used pecans, shell and all, perhaps a symbol of fertility or rebirth?) whoever gets the baby provides the next weeks cake.

i've been interested in words that seen somehow anachronistic.

"sounding" was used to measure navigational depth long before audio frequencies were used for measurement.

you wrote one but i'll have to back up in the thread to find it. oh. it was me.

"king's day" was celebrated in the liturgical calendar for a thousand years before mrs presley delivered young elvis to his adoring fans.
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I am also interested in words! 👍

like Dreikönigstag ❤️
irosie91 said:
I didn't know that MULCH is a German word---how, specifically, is it used?
I know "MILCH" <<< not MULCH
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exactly!
first I thought of Milch = milk as well. 👍

Mulch is used to cover open ground in gardens etc
 
and these 3 Magi write this on the door: CMB

that are their names

and also ..

Christus mansionem benedicat

= Christ may bless this house!
 
Zebra said:
Now i wonder … is there also a custom in the US, that the 3 Magi go from door to door, to write a blessing?
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no ----in the US germany's descendants sing 'O Tannenbaum' ---the magi were
ZOROASTRIANS ----Shiite muslims hate zoroastrians. The three kings part may have
to be deleted from the school Christmas Play in London and parts of the USA
BreezeWood said:
so funny -

they were sent by the heavens to protect mary from the stone throwers ...
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try again-----zoroastrians are astronomers -----in fact their religion is called in hebrew---
AVODAH KOCHAVIM which means something like "devotion to the stars"----it's a
nice story linking people. Jews and Zoroastrians still get along in places where their
remnants ended up having fled from islamic aggression-----eg Bombay now called
Mumbai. Those I have encountered had remote connection to Iraq. Jews and
Zoroastrians mingled in Baghdad back in the day when the minions of Umar came
swinging their scimitars----they floated to Bombay ~~~636 AD
 
Zebra said:
Did you know these names?
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Farsi names are weird----but I never met an Iranian with any of those names ???
It seems to me that they generally don't have arabic names ????
 
irosie91 said:
no ----in the US germany's descendants sing 'O Tannenbaum' ---the magi were
ZOROASTRIANS ----Shiite muslims hate zoroastrians. The three kings part may have
to be deleted from the school Christmas Play in London and parts of the USA

try again-----zoroastrians are astronomers -----in fact their religion is called in hebrew---
AVODAH KOCHAVIM which means something like "devotion to the stars"----it's a
nice story linking people. Jews and Zoroastrians still get along in places where their
remnants ended up having fled from islamic aggression-----eg Bombay now called
Mumbai. Those I have encountered had remote connection to Iraq. Jews and
Zoroastrians mingled in Baghdad back in the day when the minions of Umar came
swinging their scimitars----they floated to Bombay ~~~636 AD
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yes 91 ...

why wasn't mary stoned to death in common parlance for the time ...
 
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Zebra said:
they are not Arabs
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right----but muslims tend to have arabic names----except Iranians. Like Pakistanis are
not arabs-----but all of the males seem to be named some permutation of muhummad---
like ACHMED ----the girls are Maryam or Fatima. ----the name-game is fascinating.
 
irosie91 said:
right----but muslims tend to have arabic names----except Iranians. Like Pakistanis are
not arabs-----but all of the males seem to be named some permutation of muhummad---
like ACHMED ----the girls are Maryam or Fatima. ----the name-game is fascinating.
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True!
 
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