Anyway, nobody really gets the fire from the church anymore, but people do make fires outside and jump over them. It's kinda fun. Since my cousin got engaged in fall, they had a little celebration with the fire and everything.
It's-a me! Got a haircut that same day; the hair had gotten long enough for ponytails already.
Cousin and fiancee jumping. Blurry but kinda cool.
Aunt and uncle helping little cousin jump. He was having the time of his life x)
Me, right after jumping. Not a very good picture. And you can't really see the flame because my butt is in the way =P.
Women are supposed to dance around the fire 7 times in the end (I think?). We just sort of walked around it like once.
Ok, this has been your cultural lesson for today. NOW GET BACK TO HW.
p.s. This was over the weekend, not yesterday, because yea, convenient.
3 comments:
Ooooh!! That looks like fun! I'm really tempted to make some sort of lame joke like the one you made about the fireplace in the fourth HP movie.
"Who's the hottest person in the photo?" "Lusine, because she jumped over the fire" =P
Oh, and nice haircut, by the way. =)
Different cultures, but similar thing with fire and weddings. In China (before the invasion of western culture and huge fluffy white dresses and suits, obviously), you wear red when you're getting married because it's the colour of fire.
You also wear it during big celebrations (e.g. Chinese New Year) because red is supposidely a lucky/happy colour with the magical properties of being able to ward off evil or something.
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