From the author: “Of all the elements that are necessary to achieve success, the most important is faith.” D. GibboneChristmas is a magical time of rebirth. 🎄 🎁 When it doesn’t matter how much of a believer you are, because this note of growing light is absorbed with the “mother’s milk” of many hundreds of generations of mothers of different peoples and countries. The echo of ancient traditions and myths reaches us even now. The eternal wheel of the year turns, and the world comes out of "shadow sector" of the annual cycle. And the time was difficult from the end of October to Christmas: not only with a physical lack of solar energy, but also with psychological emotional “hunger”. This is a period of risk for depression, even in our civilization and electricity. And for our ancestors there was a “Crisis of Faith.” Nature died; the trees have lost their leaves and stand ugly and bare. The bitter cold is raging, the animal is hiding, the bird has flown away. The sun barely smolders and goes out. Winter for our ancestors is a hungry time of fear, anxiety that the earth will no longer come to life. And it will not bear fruit. The End of the World is coming, the twilight of the gods “Götterdämmerung”? Then people went out to battle the undead and darkness. They fought in different ways to defeat winter: rituals of ancestral sorcerers, sacrifices to good gods, deception and intimidation of evil spirits, songs and ritual dances. New Year's days at the end of December and beginning of January are both a holiday and a battle of the spirit for life - at the same time. / Charles Lebrun 1619-1690, Paris “The Joy of Christmas” / People won, each time after their magical battle a new Sun was born. This victorious rejoicing has echoed to us, people of the 21st century. The joy of victory sounds in the bright lights of the New Year and the bright holiday of Christmas. Christianity dissolved ancient pagan traditions, but could not completely destroy them. The celebration of the birth of the new sun coincides with the Nativity of Christ. The story goes back two thousand years: the Star of Bethlehem lit up in the sky, a new God was born, a new spiritual leader came into the world. Christianity sometimes denies its origins, like a young Komsomol member from her noble mother, but nothing can be done about it: people on planet Earth have been celebrating the birth of the new Sun God these days for thousands of years. “The king is dead. Long live the king!" 🔥This is an ancient European legend about the battle of two kings. Every year, on the eve of the Birth of a new Sun, the King of Praduba (Holly) and the young King of Oak come together in battle. “The old king is mature and experienced in a wreath of evergreen winter holly, strewn with berries, the young king is young and furious in a wreath of oak leaves, and They fight every year not for life, but for death, but their battle is eternal, and will be fought as long as this earth lives.” These brothers-kings-rivals rule the Earth for an equal amount of time, for six months. None of the Kings die, they live simultaneously, but have different strength and power in the annual cycle. And each of the Kings brings different ideas and aspects of existence into the world. The time of power of the bright Oak King is intended for development, new achievements and projects. Grow and create. Time of the power of the dark King Holly for rest, regeneration, conservation, learning. Preserve and restore. Every action is in demand, and everything has its time. But on the night before Christmas, everyone living, willingly or unwillingly, participates in this eternal dispute for the staff of power: let the dark point of the crisis be passed as soon as possible. Remember Gogol’s famous story “The Night Before Merry Christmas"? “The last day before Christmas has passed. The winter, clear night has arrived. The stars have looked out...” And the last efforts of the “forces of darkness” begin before its time ends. 😊Let the spark of the newborn sun ignite the flame of next summer! What will the heavenly tablets tell today, on Christmas Eve? About “eternity in love and flame.” We have a chance to conceive in the broadest sense of the word. It’s time to “plant your intentions and plans in rich soil” and begin to germinate. Impulse, chance, meeting - and the birth of something new that enters our lives for the coming year.🎄 🎅 Today will be Christmas, the whole city will