Every year on February 14, 40 days after Christ's Christmas Day, the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the feast of offering the forty-day-old baby Jesus to the temple, Tyarnandaraj.
The Armenian people celebrate the holiday known as Trndez, Tearnandaraj, Tandarej, Tndalesh, Tarinj-tarinj, Dardaranj, Doronj, Melet and many other names for thousands of years. qahana.am writes.
The Christian advice of the holiday. The Feast of the Lord is an invitation to everyone to meet the Lord. The name "Before the Lord" is etymologically based on the Christian tradition.
According to the ancestral law, the woman who gave birth had to take the forty-day-old first-born child to the temple, make offerings to God and receive a blessing. and his mother in purgatory. Mary takes Jesus to the temple at forty. Here was a pious old man named Simeon, who from God was commanded not to see death until he saw the Savior of the world and mankind. Guided by the Holy Spirit, he comes to meet the baby Jesus. Hence the expression "to meet the Lord".
Folk tradition of the holiday. According to folk tradition, the main ritual of Tyarnandaraj was to light a bonfire and celebrate it. The bonfire was lit mainly from ears of wheat. While the fire was burning, women brought the festive dishes of Tyarnandaraj on a tray, such as rice, raisins, walnuts, and roasted peas. some were distributed the other part was taken inside for the evening feast. They circled the fire, and when the flame went down, they began to fly over the fire. over, you don't need to be upset and suffer from superstition until the next feast of Lord's Day.
In the past, predictions were made in the direction of bonfire smoke. following the direction of the smoke, they determined the harvest of the year (if the smoke turned to the south or east, they expected an abundant harvest, and if it turned to the north or west, they considered that there would be a drought). They tried to predict from which direction the bride would come or the groom. There was a special candle or torch dance for newlyweds. Seven married couples with candles or torches surrounded the dancing newlyweds to protect them from evil, and they danced within that circle.
There was an interesting custom among the Armenians of the Musa mountain region, the remnants of which can still be found in the villages, in the memory of adults, when the grandmother, opening a door and a window, drove the winter shvot ("shvot" is a distorted form of the Arabic word for the month of February, Shubat) g) and invites spring-March inside.
