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It means the famous holiday of the Christmas tree is an "alien" holiday in Christianity.

The famous world map (England, 1260). As well as other maps of that time it placed Heaven in the East, where Ancient Altai was

And for the Turki a fir has become a sacred tree long ago. And only for them but for other Siberian nations as well. A fir was placed inside the house. They used to celebrate holidays in its honor three - four thousand years ago. A very ancient tradition, it is connected with Yer-su.

They used to worship that God before Tengirchilik was accepted. It lived in the center of the Earth, "where according to the legend the hub of the universe is situated and where a gigantic fir grows reaching the house of Ulgen with its top" - the house of the aged in a rich caftan.

Ancient Turkic legends don't contain much information about Ulgen. Always - in winter an in summer - he wears a caftan, he has a thick white beard up to his knees. Ulgen was the head of white spirits. He would sit in a golden palace ruling over the sun and the moon.

On December 25th, when the day won the victory over the night in a very hard struggle and the sun remained over the Earth a little bit longer, ancient Turki turned to Ulgen with a prayer. They thanked him for the returned sun.

Later, in the times of Tengri, that day has become the day of Epiphany for the Turki - it was the main holiday during a year!

And to make the prayers heard, according to another ancient tradition, people decorated "Ulgen's tree". They tied bright ribbons on a fir and put lavish gifts under it. They would have fun due to victory of the sun over darkness all night long. They would sing and dance in a ring around a fir.

Hence is a stable belief which remained until now that all the inmost dreams of the New Year's night would come true. And Ulgen never let down: after the holiday the night would begin to decline. No doubt, Ulgen is the Father Frost.

It is no wonder that a fir, having connected people with the world of Ulgen, was respected by the ancient Turki. It means "route", "road" in the Turkic language. Like an arrow, a fir showed the way to Ulgen. All those things intensified the sacred force of the image.

It seems another ancient Turkic tradition originated here - graves of the clergies were covered with boughs of a fir. Why? He departed the kingdom of Yer-Su where a fir was highly respected.

In Europe Christmas holiday has been celebrated since Attila's times. At first it was called a "wild Hun holiday". European pagans didn't understand it.

The same as they didn't understand a fairy tail "About the Ryaba-hen (speckled hen)" which was to be told to little children during that night.

Why was it a Ryaba-hen? Because each its feather meant day and night - the light and the dark, and the hen itself was the symbol of a year. It lay its egg which wasn't a common but a golden egg on December 25th - the day of Epiphany: the sun is also golden that day. Father (Frost), Mother (Blizzard) tried to crush it but they would never succeed. And a mouse was running by - it was the Day of a Mouse (the shortest night was on June 25th) - it wagged with its tail, the egg fell down and crushed… And everything started to decline. The Turki had such a cognitive fairy tail.

December 25th - Tengri's birthday - became Christmas (?) in medieval Europe for some reason. While Christ was born on January 6th. I doubt whether anybody is able to explain anything here…

However, ancient culture of Altai with its undisclosed mysteries and unknown secrets is really interesting.

A custom to celebrate the holiday of spring, the Christian Easter, also has Altai roots. The Turki celebrated it in another way as compared with the Jews and first Christians. Following the Bible covenants, they still eat matzoth there - unleavened thin bread. Tengirchilik followers had it in another way, they baked Easter cakes.

An Easter cake embodied the male origin. It was made in respective form, recipes of pastry were invented for the purpose not to reach certain flavor but to make an Easter cake hard and "fit", i.e. make it big in size. And God forbid if it falls down - it was an ill omen. The top of ready Easter cake was covered with white cream and they poured the seeds of colored millet onto it. Two colored eggs were put near it.

The ceremony of the male origin - a phallus - worship has been known in the East from time immemorial, it was a sacred ceremony. In other words, it was connected with tillage - the origin of the future yield - and in general with birth of everything new and wishful.

The most important ceremony of life continuation.

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