{"id":647,"date":"2012-02-26T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T09:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/?p=647"},"modified":"2014-08-21T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:54:33","slug":"clean-monday-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b1%cf%81%ce%ac-%ce%b4%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%84%ce%ad%cf%81%ce%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/clean-monday-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b1%cf%81%ce%ac-%ce%b4%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%84%ce%ad%cf%81%ce%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Monday, \u039a\u03b1\u03b8\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac \u0394\u03b5\u03c5\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clean Monday\u00a0 or pure Monday is a public holiday in Greece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the orthodox Christians the fasting period before Easter starts on Clean Monday and last for 40 days, as many days as Jesus fasted in the dessert.\u00a0 This specific day, Christians \u201cclean\u201d themselves physically as well as spiritually. In other words, Christians leave behind every sin and say goodbye to the non-fasting foods. This is how the name Clean Monday was introduced. Actually the whole week is called Clean week and according to the custom, during this week people go to confession and clean thoroughly their houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pure Monday is connected with outdoors activities . People leaving their cities and they travel to the countryside(\u03b5\u03be\u03bf\u03c7\u03ae) to friends or family residences, for the celebration. The ones that stay behind in the city, they usually take their picnic basket and go to open areas, to dine and fly kite (\u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b5\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2). The food that is consumed at this day is mainly shellfish (\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u03ae) and other fish food accompanied with several kinds of salad (\u03c3\u03b1\u03bb\u03ac\u03c4\u03b1), a kind red caviar that we call tarama(\u03c4\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac), halva (\u03c7\u03b1\u03bb\u03b2\u03ac) and of course lagana! Lagana (\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03ac\u03bd\u03b1 )is a special azyme bread\u00a0 that is baked only\u00a0 on that day and symbolizes the help offered by God to the Israeli people while leading them away from Egypt to the promised land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is the term koulouma (\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1) that we use to describe the celebration activities of the Clean Monday. It is not exactly known where the word koulouma came from. There are several opinions, but the most known is that the word koulouma is coming from the Latin word cumulus that means abundance and end. It denotes the end of Apokries (carnival).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course it cannot be any kind of celebration in Greece without traditional and a lot of dance music (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03ae \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03cd \u03c7\u03bf\u03c1\u03cc). There is a celebrating atmosphere everywhere and After Christmas is one of the childrens\u2019 favorite days.\u00a0 The sky is full of big (\u03bc\u03b5\u03b3\u03ac\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2), small (\u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2), fancy (\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03c5\u03c0\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2), handmade (\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03b7\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2), colorful (\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03cd\u03c7\u03c1\u03c9\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2) and in several shapes kites.\u00a0 Children (but also grownups!) compete each other who has the most beautiful kite and who has the one that goes higher than all the others. The kite symbolizes the soul of the man who is made to \u201cfly\u201d in heaven. Some other say that we fly a kite in order to send away all bad things and so to prepare for purification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-652 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/Halva-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/Halva-3.jpg 412w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/Halva-3-350x304.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/lagana-green-monday.jpg\" aria-label=\"Lagana Green Monday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-650 alignnone\"  alt=\"\u039b\u03b1\u03b3\u03ac\u03bd\u03b1\" width=\"147\" height=\"148\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/lagana-green-monday.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/lagana-green-monday.jpg 237w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/lagana-green-monday-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/TARAMAS.jpg\" aria-label=\"TARAMAS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-651 alignnone\"  alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"144\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/TARAMAS.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\">\u03a7\u03b1\u03bb\u03b2\u03ac\u03c2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u039b\u03b1\u03b3\u03ac\u03bd\u03b1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u03a4\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clean Monday\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7pNrKxNOJLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/clean-monday-athens-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/clean-monday-athens-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2012\/02\/clean-monday-athens.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Clean Monday\u00a0 or pure Monday is a public holiday in Greece. 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