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Histories &
Mysteries
Judy and John Tole
Year’s day to have plenty of everything the rest of the year.” Our modem sophistication may make us feel somehow above such simple fare, what with internet sites offering suggestions on the latest in food, drink, toasts, and themes for the ultimate holiday gala. However, your New Year’s bash is likely to be but a humble tea, my precious, compared to the 11 days of wildly varying festivities, including the degradation of the king, by the residents of Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago; ever considered trying to walk like a Babylonian while singing ‘Auld Lang Syne?
For many of us though, the New Year is a bittersweet time of reflection and remembrance of old times and friends tinged'with the hope and promise of the coming year. Fare welling of the old year was originally done out of fear that the evil.spirits were let loose on the last day of the year. So people would make lots of noise and have lots of fun to drive the evil spirits away, so that they could start a New Year unharmed and unimpeded. This doesn’t mean, dear readier, that every party needs rise
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