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Épiphanie by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.

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Epiphany : is the tradition of the Patty Pagan, Christian or both ?

EPIPHANY 2017 – The Epiphany, It's this Friday 06 January 2017 ! But a question arises : why eat the cake of the Kings early January ? Origins, history, recipes… everything you need to know to shine around the cake.

Epiphany : definition

The term has a very specific meaning since it refers to the sudden understanding of a phenomenon or the essence of something. An epiphany is a revelation, brutal awareness. In its religious sense, It refers to the manifestation of Jesus to the Magi.

Epiphany : the history of the King Cake

We must go back to the 13th or 14th century to find the first traces of a wafer-sharing during the Epiphany. A galette, cut into as many portions as guests plus one : the “part of the poor”, i.e. for the first needy who came. We are talking first of a golden cake and round shape, a description that can remind the Sun and therefore the cult of the Saturnalia, also linked to the Solstice, winter as d’summer. During these festivities of 7 days, the excesses were allowed, and it was customary to offer cakes his entourage. A tradition that, in the middle ages, became one of the “cake of the Kings”. For some, the appellation would come the royalty had to pay to his Lord at the same time. Fee usually accompanied herself a cake.

Origin

Of both pagan and Christian origin, Epiphany and his tasty cake to celebrate this week, more precisely from Friday 6 January 2017. If the calendar places the tradition at this date, the legislation set this year to Sunday 8 January (explanations here). His recipes often seduce so greedy that they celebrate it several times. Of many readings and historical interpretations illuminate this feast has been celebrated for many long, shortly after those of Christmas and the Eve.

In the Christian imagination, the cake refers to the three three wise men which, guided by a star, went to Bethlehem, to gather in front of the Manger where Jesus was born, the child of precious gifts offering. But we soon learn, in addressing the question, that Epiphany (or its equivalent) was already celebrated long before the advent of the Christian religion. Linternaute.com offers you to look through this special page.

The origins of the Epiphany

The Epiphany is the result of a long tradition, going very far back before the birth of Jesus and as a result of a mixture of Pagan and Christian traditions (as for the Candlemas). Originally, It was in ancient times to celebrate the God Dionysus. God of the vine, wine, but also of celebration and the excesses in mythology Greek, Dionysus is intimately linked to the seasons and so the cycles of vegetation. The party given in his honor in the middle of winter, and concomitant with the winter solstice, symbolizes resurrection, the return of light and thus the rebirth of this vegetation.

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