Christmas or Christmas - what is the correct name of the holiday? About the name, dates, traditions, historical facts, Prof. Valeria Fol - a researcher of Thracian heritage and culture, told in the program “The Day Live” on NOVA NEWS.
“Christmas is the Bulgarian pronunciation. Christmas took place after the 4th century. Then a monk, named Dionysius, chose the days of Christmas for Christmas, because there was a dispute about when Jesus was born. He is from Scythia, from the lands where the Sun is God. In Bulgarian folklore it is called “The Mother of God was martyred from Ignazhden to Christmas”. "And in our lands, images of Christ with sunbeams have been found," said Prof. Valeria Fol.
She recalled that the Bulgarian state was formed on Byzantine territory. "Byzantium has a wonderful calendar that it inherited from Rome. There, every first day of the month is Kalenda. In Byzantium, things changed and only the first day of the New Year remained Kalenda. The Bulgarians changed this name to Christmas. In our lands, the New Year began on the winter solstice of Ignazhden, when the rite of the entrance is also performed - (you guess what the year will be by who will enter the house first)," said Prof. Fol.
These are the days when the sun is the least and the night is the longest, the historian specified and added that since then the day has been increasing, and in folklore this symbolizes the young God. “Christmas is not on January 1, but on the days after this solstice. The first day is Little Christmas, the second - Big Christmas”, added Prof. Fol.