Talk:Korochun

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[edit] Halloween?

Why 'version of Halloween'? What All Saints' Eve has to do with Karachun, besides being originated from another pagan calendar festivals?

--barbatus 17:53, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Seconded. It'd be nice to have something on what actually happened. --Kizor 06:57, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

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But doesn't the Romanian Craciun derive from the Latin Creatio, -nis [Romanian being a Latin language afterall], which has the same twofold meaning as the Greek Gen(n)esis, namely Creation/Birth, since this word (Craciun, Korochun, Karacsony) is the word for Christmas (The Birth of the Saviour) in Romanian, Slavic, and Hungarian. (And what exactly does Christmas have to do with Haloween -- the Eastern-Orthodox day for the commemoration of the departed is in Spring, right after Easter -- anyway, in any case NOT in Winter).

Also, taking into consideration the fact that the Arian-believing Goths crossed Romanian teritory somewhere in the first centuries of the Christian era, and even Wulphilla's Bible was translated on the territory of present-day Romania, (the Arian belief stating that Christ the first, fore-most, and most important and venerable creation of God, but not actually God Himself), I think that this particular argument has even better weight.

Just a thought. -- Craciun Lucian.

P.S. : Craciun is also a very popular family-name, as well as first-name, in the Romanian language. Do Korochun or Karacsony share the same popularity within the Slavic or Hungarian languages?

This article needs sources. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 15:49, 15 June 2007 (UTC)