Re: [tied] Re: Albanian Christian religious terminology

From: alex
Message: 23888
Date: 2003-06-26

george knysh wrote:
>
> *****GK:
>crãciun= creatione related to arianism.

This can be, it has nothing to do with Christianity. The 25 December was
the day of the re-born of the Sun in the old pagan rituals and too the
day of Mithra.
The rom. word for "creatio" is "facere" and there is no inherited word
for Lat. "creatio".
More, there are plenty of toponysms as "Cetatea Crãciuna", "Piatra lui
Crãciun", Crãciunei, Crãciunel, Crãciunesti, but too family names as
Crãciun, Crãciunescu.
There are too plants called: crãciuniTa, (begonia semperflorensen);
crãciun ( begonia metallica); crãciunel ( Begonia crassifolia), etc.


alex