Meaning of Anastenaria | Babel Free

Definitions

A religious ritual performed in Southern Bulgaria and Northern Greece involving trance and dancing on fire.

Examples

“The author, Mrs. Anne Gault Antoniades, an American long resident in Greece and familiar with its language, is competent to write about the Anastenaria not only because she can give an eyewitness account of the festival, but particularly by virtue of her keen interest in the Greek people and the study she has made of their folkways.”

“The insistence that the Anastenaria was so archaic—that its worldview preceded the Hellenic gods—actually “internationalized” the custom.”

“These kerchiefs symbolized the bond uniting husband and wife, as in the context of the Anastenaria they symbolize the bond between Saint Constantine and the possessed Anastenarissa.”

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