Rituals of Magical – Rain Making in Modern and Ancient Greece: A Comparative Approachand From Modern Greek Carnivals to the Masks of Dionysos and other Divinities in Ancient Greece are two very interesting articles about the Kalogeros (monk), a carnival…
Carnival
Oh yes, this restaurant bill is a handmade carnival costume which took its inspiration from an original bill of 1982. hors-d’œuvres beef, grilled potatoes, mushrooms antipasti coke, gazoza, biral, serum (?!) lettuce salad, tomato, pears fried potatoes, charcoal-grilled potatoes…
Food for the dead (3)
Tsiknopempti, the Thursday of the second week of Greek Carnival (Apokries), is surrounded with the smells and smokes of grilled meat and burning fat. Since it is believed that the souls of the dead are set free and wander among…