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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span name="M.-L. Lessing"><span name="Tom Mc Rae"><span name="Luc Hellinckx"><span name="M.-L. Lessing"><span name="Mike Morgan">(Ted Harding) <<a href="mailto:Ted.Harding@wlandres.net">Ted.Harding@wlandres.net</a>></span> <br>
</span></span></span></span>Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2013.09.06 (01) [EN</font></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000">> From: Luc Hellinckx <<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com"><font color="#0066cc">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</font></a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Traditions"<br>> <br>> Beste Lowlanders,<br>> <br>> No more public celebrations of Christmas in the streets of Berlin:<br>> Berlin verbietet Weihnachten<br>> < <a href="http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/politik/14645-berlin-verbietet-weih" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.mmnews.de/index.</font><font color="#0066cc">php/politik/14645-berlin-</font><font color="#0066cc">verbietet-weih</font></a><br>
> nachten#13778853945952&if_height=6704><br>> <br>> Any Bierfest is still allowed, the origin not being a religious one.<br>> <br>> Kind greetings,<br>> <br>> Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium<br>
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<br> The Scots have this properly organised! While the novel Christian<br> festival of Christmas is observed, it indeed normally takes place<br> quietly, and in private behind the closed doors of family homes.<br><br> By contrast, the ancient pagan festival of Hogmanay is a tumultuous<br>
public event. Small groups bearing flasks of the Water of Life<br> (Uisge Beatha) turn up at the doors of friends and neighbours late<br> on 31 January, and may be invited in (or the neighbours may come out),<br> and Life is imbibed. The groups accumulate adherents, and move on.<br>
This continues through the night, and much Life is assimilated.<br><br> In my memories from my Edinburgh days, sometime around 6am on the<br> 1st of January we, by now brimming with Life, would set off to<br> walk to the lower slopes of Arthur's Seat[*] (which is not far<br>
from the city centre), and then scramble up the rocky Gutted Haddie[**]<br> until we finally staggered to the summit rock.<br><br> By the time we had reached this, we were (usually) in good time<br> to watch the First Sunrise Of The New Year slowly bring light to<br>
Edinburgh from the East. Beautiful.<br><br> The exuberance of Life endowed us with a perfect head for heights,<br> and rendered our party shoes impervious to the perils of any snow<br> or ice.<br><br> That is what a Festival should be like, and of course it must be<br>
blatantly and joyously public.<br><br> This being a list for languages, I invite suggestions (in any<br> variety of Scots, or even Gaelic) for what might have been said by<br> those celebrating, had anyone dared to prohibit a public Hogmanay!<br>
<br> With best wishes to all,<br> Ted.<br><br> [*] For those unfamiliar with this city feature, see:<br><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Seat,_Edinburgh" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</font><font color="#0066cc">Arthur%27s_Seat,_Edinburgh</font></a><br>
<br> and particularly savour the "360 degree panorama" -- and imagine<br> it at sunrise on a New Year's Day.<br><br> [**] For the Gutted Haddie ravine on Arthur's Seat:<br><br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/82904757@N08/8179407681/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.flickr.com/photos/</font><font color="#0066cc">82904757@N08/8179407681/</font></a><br>
<br> <a href="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/79/04/2790474_9de1a439.jpg" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://s0.geograph.org.uk/</font><font color="#0066cc">geophotos/02/79/04/2790474_</font><font color="#0066cc">9de1a439.jpg</font></a><br>
<br> The modern zig-zag tourist path beside the Gutted Haddie did not<br> exist in those days! It was pure undiluted (like the whisky)<br> hill-scrambling.<br><br> -------------------------------------------------<br> E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <<a href="mailto:Ted.Harding@wlandres.net"><font color="#0066cc">Ted.Harding@wlandres.net</font></a>><br>
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