  z2s_z_h5wpryd it should be noted that the dating of christmas was not the dating as held in 2:07 the ancient or medieval past the date according to the calendar was 2:13 always december 25th but when the julian calendar was changed for 2:19 the gregorian calendar the old december 25th became the new january 7th 2:27 the eastern orthodox still celebrate dates according to the julian calendar 2:32 but it no longer matches with the solstice period due to a flaw with the 2:37 original calendar which has the days slowly drifting from the solar year 2:43 various local christmas traditions some of which continue will take place anywhere between 2:50 december 24th and january 7th due to the change in the calendar and 2:55 some traditions locally either sticking with the old days or going with the new days 3:02 eclectically in the slavic traditions of eastern and 3:07 central europe christmas is sometimes referred to as korochin 3:12 thought to have originally taken place around christmas eve or sometimes 3:18 referring to christmas itself the customs surrounding it have now 3:24 largely been absorbed into various christmas traditions corrochin kratchen and slovak is thought 3:31 to mean to make a step or to step forward the most probable meaning of this is in 3:39 reference to the changing of the year and very likely the solar cycle 3:44 the 25th of december is not the solstice but it's the first day in which the sun begins to move again 3:51 towards the northern hemisphere taking the first step the first step of the year the first 3:58 sign of the coming spring the first step of the renewed world and likely the 4:04 cosmic beginning the first known mention of it is in the chronicle of novgorod one of the
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