Nadal's uncle in Catalonia
century engraving XVIII with children and the uncle.
Tió popular tradition brings every December 25-even in the winter solstice celebration, thousands of families around a piece of log or "soca" they call Tio, preserved a tradition that probably has roots in a tree worship of antiquity.
Nadal's uncle there, so documented in Catalonia since the seventeenth century (although it was always said that before). This form of celebration is very similar to other winter religious celebrations like the Yul log in Germanic countries, albeit in a somewhat different. In fact, traditionally, the guy was of oak and oak woods great sacred power connector.
Today, the guy is painted face and wears a beret and a pipe, is given to eat during from December 8 (fresh fruit) and covered with a blanket. The fruit is disappearing every day. On December 24 evening, the parents put sweets and small gifts under the blanket, wet soca wine, give some canes to children children and hit the trunk singing a song, and then lifted the blanket to find gifts.
Tió Song (Catalan)
Caga tió -thio- shit
Ametller i Torres -almendras and Turrones
- not shit arangades -no shit herring
that are too salty , which are Demasiado salados
shits nougat -shits Turrones
are better , which are more buenos
Shits piñata -shits piñata
almonds and nougat -almond nougat
if vols cagar -if you want shit
et enough to donate a cop of -stroke will give you a stick !
But the real rite was not as innocent as this. In antiquity, it is known that the trunk was burned on 25 December to 5 January, and her ashes and kept for home remedies and as a protective amulet. The first fire was lit year from the ashes of Tio, so the solstice flame is not extinguished and renewed forever. Food offerings and prayers were perpetuators of ancestor worship, and family preservation, and its called remember the ancestors. In fact, the ritual was condemned by the Bishop of Braga in the seventh century (!!!). In Provence is a variant of the ritual based on giving 3 turns to the house with the soca and hot wine sprinkled with reciting a prayer.
kind of guy with animal forms
celebrations around the trunk are not unique to Catalonia, as already mentioned, since they are reminiscent of the cult of trees as responsible for nurturing the community. When it is a form of ancestor worship, in which offerings to the "soca" serve to ensure protection family during the year. It has been speculated about the nature of this celebration as an antecedent of imports probably Germanic "Christmas tree", and is very likely to do so, because its presence enCataluña predates the tree, is socially and culturally seen as more " own ", and has internalized so much that it have a song itself.
Unfortunately, the guy can not only compete with the classical Germanic tradition fir, and in a few generations will be lost if nothing is done about it. And it's something to keep in mind that over time he has been given so human endeavor that continues to be a trunk, and both denatured source, which has become a mere anecdote of something that was probably true primordial origin of the "Christmas tree" in the territory.
Encyclopedia of Popular fantasy Catalan - Joan Soler i Amigó
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