The Three Kings

[Quid]

hey i thought I would wish you all a happy three kings day For those who do not celebrate it (like myself, really), this is the day where the three kings (Baltazar, Caspar and Melchior ???) visited christ...

Am not a believer but I thought it somehow fitted into Kings and Queens and things...

Anyway...have a good day and all... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif. till the next time when I can serve you some more useless info...hehehehe...

Quidster

[Gregoshi]

I had just heard about Three Kings day for the first time this year. I never knew it existed. The radio report said that is some countries children put out boxes in hopes of getting gifts placed in them. If these are countries that celebrate Christmas too, then those kids have quite a racket going. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

[Sir Chauncy]

Yeah Happy three kings... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

In Spain they celebrate this more than Christmas. They have precesions though the streets where people go past on bloody great big stands dressed as the Kings throwing out sweets to everyone who is brave enough to scramble through the crowds. Traditionally presents are given on this day and not Christmas, although as time has gone on they tend to give out pressies on both days. Bloody kids, back in my day, when this was all fields...

[Hosakawa Tito]

I think I read that it is a Latino celebration that is reserved for gift giving while Christmas itself is observed for its religious meaning.

[Frederik III]

In France, we call that day the Epiphany. But instead of giving presents, we eat a special cake, made only for this day, with a kind of small toy in it. And the one that discovers the toy in his piece of cake is made king mor the year to come.

[Quid]

epithania....yes...that is the real christmas, after all...the orthodox christians still celebrate christmas then...i think it's a celebration of the dead or something...dec 25th christmas was just moved there for convenience...so really ...we are all wrong...on the other hand...three kings day has nothing to do with epithania though...it's a national hol of it's own in some countries...and yes...here in CH we also celebrate it with a special type of bread with a plastic king in it...and we can choose what we want to eat all day...hahahaa...silly...will stop now...otherwise you will get me going on explaining abouot Santa Clause...lol...

Quidster

[Gaius Julius]

I'm a practicing Catholic; I avoid church religiously. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif
Seriously though, I've known this day as the Epiphany. Never heard it referred to as Three Kings Day. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[CleverClothe]

HAPPY THREE KINGS DAY

Except there weren't three... and they weren't kings...

But who cares? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/dizzy.gif