From: alex
Message: 23483
Date: 2003-06-18
> Hram is the annual celebration of the patron saint of an orthodoxaccepted by whom and publiced where?
> church as St George on April 23 or St. Mary on August 15. The name
> hram might derives from heram, an ancient festival and a banquet
> celebrated in Samos in honour of the goddess Hera. The Thracians used
> to offer to their gods and ancestors huge lavish public feasts. The
> word zestre, meaning dowry is one of the 165 Romanian common words
> currently accepted as Thracian.
>
> Regard,
>
> Lisa