In winter, the oak trees shed their leaves, hence the Celts small torches attached to it and branches of perennial species, in the belief that it protected the winter and helped him regain strength to sprout in spring.
Today, the ceremony is most expedient: it goes to market, bought a pine or fir hang plastic and silk ribbons, balloons and bright electric lights. It added that the Christian custom of placing gifts at the foot of the tree and open them at Christmas, also comes from the Celts, who once produced the solstice (December 21) was divided between the torches as an omen of an early summer.
In northern Europe there was also the World Tree called Yggdrasil, whose top was the palace of Odin, the highest god, where the first evangelists of the tree took the idea to celebrate the birth of Christ, but by changing meaning.
Yggdrasil It happened that while he offered human sacrifices to the Christians that did not need Jesus had already given their lives in the timbers of the cross (the tree) to save mankind.
In this connection it is said that Saint Boniface, missionary to Germany, slanted with an ax a tree that represented the Yggdrasil and to which he was to sacrifice a child and that sprouted miraculously there a fir tree.
While Protestant Christians choose pine, Catholics do not hesitate to prefer spruce and this has to do with who was Martin Luther, father of the Reformation, who set the pine as a Christmas tree because its leaves, which symbolize the eternal love of God, should be perennial.
This idea also joined the Catholics, but Protestants distinguished from supplanted by the christmas tree, evergreen also has a triangular shape represents the Holy Trinity.
For its part, the Jews have their Tree of Life, that there materially, but you draw with ten rounds, which represent the ten sefirot, or spiritual emanations through which God would have given rise to all existence. These ten emanations
turn are interconnected with the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and interpreting complex enter the field of Kabbalah. The Christmas tree also reminds the Paradise apple whose fruit Adam and Eve ate, and where they came from original sin.
usually thought to dress the tree entirely in red, holds passion, whether gold, wealth, whether white, peace, whether blue, calm, and if yellow, success, if orange, joy, if brown or beige, work, yes indeed, hope.
But for devout Catholics, the symbolism is different: the spheres represent the prayers that are made during the period of Advent and colors meet, if they are red, to requests, if silver, with gratitude, the praise and gold are the blue of repentance. In addition, the star usually put at the top of the tree represents the faith that should guide the Christian's life.
The Christmas tree should have between 24 to 28 areas, depending on the days in the Advent, which will hang from 8 December until Christmas Eve, and each is accompanied by a sentence or a purpose.
Past Three Kings Day, the plastic tree is stripped of its ornaments, folded in the middle and kept until the next year in a box high up in the closet, not to bother. Despite symbolizing longevity, surviving less than a month: just between 8 December and 6 January.
To have a good year is a tradition among Christians assemble the Christmas tree on December 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and hung on the door of the house a crown of mistletoe, to ensure bliss.
is a tradition deeply reciente, si se tiene en cuenta que a principios del siglo XX todo lo que existía era el Pesebre, con María, José y el Niño en el establo, algún pastor y su rebaño, la estrella de Belén titilando arriba y los tres Reyes Magos, con su mirra y sus obsequios, atravesando la arena, pero ni por asomo ningún árbol, ni corona.
¿De dónde salió entonces la cultura de adornar con soplillos, manzanas, luces y guirnaldas al abeto (o en su defecto un pino) y poner a sus pies los regalos de Navidad?
Podría uno remontarse al Génesis para explicarlo: "Y había plantado Dios un huerto en Edén al oriente y puso allí al hombre que formó. Había también God made produce, land, every tree desirable to look at and good to eat, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. "
The tree of life, desirable to look at and good to eat, they had given to Adam and Eve the eternal life, but instead, the very bloody (woman at last, would have said Paul, who was misogynist) ate from the tree and invited knowledge, so both were expelled from Paradise and condemned them and their children, and children's children, forever, to die.
Hence there who ensure that the Christmas tree represents the innocent tree of life, desirable in the sight and good for food, Eva despised. Despite which, hang shiny red apples, the fruit of original sin!
not be said that apples hang, it's all good. Not so: it occurs that the Celtic culture, which is a few thousand years prior to Christianity (and it took quite a few customs) represented the love apple.
The Celts worshiped as seriously to the trees, until horoscope implemented a tree, and oh, by chance! (Or causality?) In the horoscope apple Celtic are people born between 23 December and 1 January, ie, coming into this world at Christmas. In "Trees do not lie," its author, an expert in Celtic horoscope Annemarie Mutsch-Engel, illustrates that it is, and says further that the apple "his strongest desire is to love and be loved." However, it stresses that "in the privacy of apple slumbering powers of a scientist," the latter word referring to the symbolism of Genesis about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil A gibberish?
The Greeks also bring their own: they enshrined the pine Dionysus, god of fertility, who donated the wine man and step created the apple to give to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, making and the apple in a fruit erotic.
A later legend Homer also points out that Eris, goddess of discord, tossed in the middle of a wedding (furious, because he was not invited) and a golden apple with the inscription "to the fairest", which gave rise the Trojan War and became the apple in the fruit of discord.
That said, we must agree never to use an apple tree Christmas tree, even loving it, not to commit the wrongdoing of the fruit hang erotic fucking and fir, but ensure it naturists very good to feed the child and to mothers
breastfeeding have enough milk.
Fortunately, the Celts give fir very appropriate symbolism for Christmas: "This tree is the symbol of eternal life," said Mutsch-Engel, for people who are born fir between 2 and 11 January, a period that includes the date of 6 scheduled for dismantling.
How are we doing with pine? In the images of Dionysus, to whom he was devoted, is the god with a rod, the tirso, crowned with vine leaves and ivy, finished in a pineapple, the fruit of that tree. The pineapple was closed for the Roman symbol of virginity and not coincidentally it is used on Christmas tables.
From the religious point of view, there is a chance that a tree is the star of the Christmas party, also to the Kabbalah (a tradition in Hebrew) on the Tree of Life (or Shefirot) values \u200b\u200breside wisdom and power.
the tree of Eden, the central symbol of the covenant between God and man, are added, among others, the Tree of Acvattaha, the Hindus of Haoma, Persians, of Apples Aureas of Garden of the Hesperides, Golden Fleece, Jason, of Purgatory, Dante and Cross, the New Testament.
Between the second and third millennium BC, a variety of Indo-European tenían a los árboles como expresión de las fuerzas fecundantes de la Madre Naturaleza, por lo que les rendían culto.
Pero la costumbre de engalanarlo parece provenir de los celtas, para quienes el roble era su árbol sagrado: en invierno, al perder sus hojas, era adornado para atraer el espíritu de la Naturaleza que había huido.
El nombre celta del roble es "duir", de donde deriva la palabra "druida" con la que denominaban a sus sacerdotes, quienes a su vez utilizaban el muérdago para proteger las puertas de los hogares contra la intromisión de los malos espíritus, tal como hacen hoy los cristianos.
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//www.sitiosargentina.com.ar/notas/2007/diciembre/historia-arbol-navidad.htm
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