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Befana, an old tradition

Rome 06:01:11 - The roots of the Epiphany, date back to the traditions of the Celtic peoples, established throughout the Po Valley and parts of the Alps The Celts celebrated the rites (officiated by magician-priests called Druids) during which large puppets Wicker were burned to honor the divine mysteries. Divinity too benign, although - as stated by some sources - which in ancient times within the sacrificial victims were tied puppets, animals, and sometimes prisoners of war. La Befana is a female figure tied to Mother Nature and pagan agrarian traditions regarding the start of the year. The look of old is the last year, ready to be burned and then "reborn" as the new year. Attractive hypothesis is that connecting the Epiphany with a Roman festival, which took place earlier this year in honor of Janus and Strenia (hence the term "gift") and during which they exchanged gifts. In fact, the pagan ritual of the twelve nights after Christmas (ie after the winter solstice) was related to fantastic female figures who flew on the newly sown fields to propitiate the future crops. Until the Twelfth Night after Christmas (January 6) is celebrating the death and rebirth of Nature. The ancient Romans believed that the twelve women to drive was Diana, the lunar goddess of vegetation, while others, a mysterious deity called Satia (Latin satiaetas, satiety) or Abundo (from Abundantia). Later, the Church condemned with the utmost rigor such beliefs, calling them the result of satanic influences. Such duplication gave rise to many different embodiments that erupted in the Middle Ages, in our current Epiphany. Old and ugly now because it is the nature strips then reborn is the image of the now worn out that the new port and then vanishes. His ugly appearance, representation of all the past penalties, plays an apotropaic to become a sacrificial figure, and then to burn. Before you die, however, the old woman went to distribute gifts and sweets to all, in order to plant the seeds for the next year. The word Epiphany comes from the greek "Epifaneia" (Event lighting), which refers to the first manifestation of Jesus Christ to the three kings, twelve days after his birth. In the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Christians epiphany remained closer to its original meaning, that of Jesus' baptism in the Jordan. While Western Christians, the celebration now recalls only the coming of the Magi, or even the presentation of Jesus to the Gentiles.