Video: Broken dishes are for Easter. Sunday in Corfu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Still, the Greeks are an amazing people, and Easter traditions they also have unusual ones. While some Greeks, the inhabitants of the island of Chios, fire rockets at each other - others, residents of the even more famous Corfu islands, arrange the most massive destruction of clay pots in the world. Maybe it's because broken dishes - Fortunately?
Several recent articles about the celebration of Easter among different peoples - the Spaniards (the Dance of Death in Vergès), the Hungarians (the Easter tradition of pouring water on girls) and others - illustrate the fact that European peoples have long been accustomed to making Easter out of Easter the most eventful, ritual and entertainment week of the year. All these traditions in one way or another are associated not only with pre-Christian folk customs (otherwise the church would not have tolerated and forbade them), but with the end of Christ's earthly path and the symbolism of this event.
So, here are the bare facts: already at 11 am on Holy Saturday, the inhabitants of the island of Corfu are impatiently awaiting the end of the divine service, having previously arranged the dishes on the eaves of the houses. As soon as the last sounds of prayer are heard, all the townspeople in a single rush throw the pots to the ground, and with a terrible noise from the streets of the cities covered with a layer of broken dishes … Recently, it has become fashionable to fill pots with water - to make the dishes beat even louder.
The original ritual is associated with the biblical phrase: "You will smite them with a rod of iron; you will crush them like a potter's vessel …" - this phrase from the Psalter describes what authority the Lord is going to give the Messiah (that is, as Christians believe, Jesus Christ). Besides, breaking dishes can mean the collapse of the old for the glory of the new, getting rid of the old world and old things - about the same as what Italians do for the New Year with their furniture.
Despite the fact that now "breaking the pots" means "quarreling", the Greeks, after cleaning up the broken dishes, on the contrary, joyfully celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, celebrating its unprecedented beauty with fireworks - obliges the status of an all-European resort. Fortunately broken dishes, or not fortunately, the main thing is easter mood, which is only emphasized by national traditions. After all, in the end, the whole holiday revolves around one, but very important fact - the fact that Christ is risen.
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