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This Friday evening will of course be gourmet at the hotel★★★ gourmet restaurant Coco Lodge in Majunga, but we will also have the Group Jazz Trio Family and of course the draw of the Kings and Queens for a night !
Joyful Epiphany to all and all.

The Epiphany is a Christian feast celebrating the Messiah come and incarnate in the world and receiving the visit and the homage of the three kings. It takes place the 6 January.

The Festival is also called "Theophany"., which also means the "manifestation of God"..
So far there is shared the galette des Rois, a cake containing a bean that would make 'King' anyone would find it in its share of slab.

Tradition has it that the Epiphany is an opportunity to "pull the Kings '. : a figurine is hidden in a pastry shop and the person who gets the bean becomes the King of the day.
This practice has its origin in the Saturnalia of ancient Rome. During these pagan festivals celebrated early January, the roles were reversed between the masters and the slaves who became "Kings for a day..
This is only to 1875 porcelain figurines replace the beans. The Romans are already practicing the use of a bean hidden in a cake for the King. Was also among the Romans, the tradition that the youngest child in the family slips under the table and means the share returning to each guest.

Originally and until the end of the fourth century, the Epiphany is the great and unique Christian feast "of the manifestation of Christ in the world. (expressed event in addition to the coming of the Magi by a series of different episodes : the Nativity, the voice of the father and the presence of a dove at the baptism on the Jordan River, the miracle of Cana, etc.). Since the introduction of a feast of the Nativity (Christmas) the 25 December, Epiphany focuses on specific meanings according to the faiths and cultures.

Since the 19th century it is also called the "Kings day" in direct reference to the coming and the adoration of the Magi.
"Epiphany" is a word of Greek origin, ἘΠΙΦΆΝΕΙΑ (Epiphaneïa) which means "manifestation" or "appearance" of the verb φαίνω (phaino), «manifest»., appear, be obvious..
The use of the term predates the christianisme3. 'Épiphanes' are, culture in Greek, deities who appear in men, as Zeus, Athena, Hermes, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis,Hestia, Dionysos, Apollo, …

Originally, The Epiphany, part of the cycle of Christmas and pulls his background and his meaning pagan celebrations of light. Indeed, Christmas, before being a day, is first a cycle.
It reached its peak on the day marking the winter solstice, the 22 December. This night of the solstice - the longest of the year - announces the lengthening of days and - by extension - the rebirth of light supposed to be at the origin of all things. Then the celebration continues after the 25 December during a highly symbolic number of days : 12 days and 12 nights.
The number 12 among others representing the entire (12 month, 12 hours, 12 Olympian gods, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 Apostles, etc.)
The cycle ends the 6 January. It is at this time that the days begin to lengthen significantly, that the promise of the solsticiale night is held. While celebrating the Epiphany, the manifestation of the light. By its round shape and colour Golden, the cake symbolizes the Sun. Note also that this is the day (in any case its equivalent, because the calendar then in force - the Julian calendar - differs from ours) that occurred in ancient Rome the feast of 12 Epiphanes gods (in other words the 12 Olympians).

The date of the Epiphany is also originally a pagan festival : in ancient times, the Romans celebrate the Saturnalia that last seven days during which the social hierarchy and the logic of things may be criticized or ridiculed and parodies.
On this occasion, for example :
• soldiers draw lots, Thanks to a bean, one sentenced to death who becomes 'King' the time of rejoicing. Once the completed Saturnalia, the sentence is carried out,
• among young soldiers, a King is elected and can control all what him please,
• may or may not be operated on a change of role only during the feast of the Saturnalia between the 'master' and 'slave' determined by draw.

A reservations !