{"id":9654,"date":"2020-03-25T16:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omilo.com\/nl\/2017\/01\/27\/advents-calendar-greek-easter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:31:24","slug":"advents-calendar-greek-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omilo.com\/nl\/advents-calendar-greek-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"The advents calendar for Greek Easter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The advents calendar for Greek Easter, is made by Kiria Sarakosti!\u00a0 <\/strong>A calendar counting down 7 weeks until Easter. It is not easy to translate the Greek \u201cKiria Sarakosti\u201d, but we propose to call her \u201cLady-Lent\u201d in English! It is an old tradition in Greece and a way to count the weeks from <a href=\"https:\/\/omilo.com\/nl\/kathara-deftera-clean-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clean Monday<\/a> (the end of carnival) until <a href=\"https:\/\/omilo.com\/nl\/greek-easter-nafplion\/\">Easter.<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Click on the photo above to also see her 7 legs!<\/p>\n<p><div  class='avia-button-wrap avia-button-center  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling ' ><a href='https:\/\/omilo.com\/el\/2017\/01\/27\/%CE%BA%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AC-%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE\/' class='avia-button   avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-center ' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style='background-color:#e3b505; border-color:#e3b505; color:#444444; '><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue84e' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Read this article in Greek <\/span><\/a><\/div><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn most regions in Greece Lady Lent it is just a paper drawing, but in some places she can be made of dough and a lot of salt, so it will preserve better! In any case, it is not meant to be eaten, but to be used as a calendar! Elsewhere in Greece, you also find her\u00a0made of cloth and filled with feathers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its name in Greek recalls the 40 days of fasting beginning on Clean Monday and ending with the Resurrection on Easter Sunday.<br \/>\nS<\/strong>he has her arms crossed and is praying, and she has no mouth because of the fasting period.<br \/>\nLady Lent has 7 feet (one for each week of the Lent period. Click on the photo above to also see her feet!). The purpose is to cut a leg at the end of each week, so you can easily count how many weeks are left. The last leg is cut on Easter Saturday and after folding well, placed in the bread of the Resurrection. The person finding the piece in his bread will have good luck.<br \/>\nAlthough this tradition is now a bit forgotten, many young children draw Lady-Lent in school. They will keep her in their room or in the kitchen of their house, in order to count the weeks till Easter!<\/p>\n<p>Easter is a one of the main <a href=\"https:\/\/omilo.com\/nl\/greek-easter-nafplion\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrations in Greece<\/a>, but also a two-week holiday for all school children!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Useful Greek vocabulary<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n(for the advanced learners, do not forget to read the article in Greek and build your vocabulary!)<\/p>\n<p>\u03a4\u03bf \u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03b9\u03bf\/ to imerologio = the calendar<br \/>\n\u03a4\u03bf \u03ad\u03b8\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\/ to ethimo = the custom<br \/>\n\u0397 \u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\/ i nistia = fast (to fast = \u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03c9\/nistevo)<br \/>\nTo \u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03b9 \/ to podi = the leg<\/p>\n<p>\u0396\u03c9\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03af\u03b6\u03bf\/ zografizo = to draw<br \/>\n\u039c\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03ac\u03c9\/ metrao = to count<br \/>\nT\u03bf \u03a0\u03ac\u03c3\u03c7\u03b1 \/ to pascha = Easter<br \/>\n\u0394\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a0\u03ac\u03c3\u03c7\u03b1 \/ diakopes tou pascha = Easter holidays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advents calendar for Greek Easter, is made by Kiria Sarakosti!\u00a0 A calendar counting down 7 weeks until Easter. It is not easy to translate the Greek \u201cKiria Sarakosti\u201d, but we propose to call her \u201cLady-Lent\u201d in English! It is an old tradition in Greece and a way to count the weeks from Clean Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[1487,2382,2383],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The advents calendar for Greek Easter! | Omilo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The advents calendar for Greek Easter, is made by Kiria Sarakosti!\u00a0 A calendar counting down 7 weeks until Easter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/omilo.com\/nl\/advents-calendar-greek-easter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The advents calendar for Greek Easter! 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