For a long time, it never occurred to anyone to celebrate a birthday.

There are various hypotheses about where the tradition of celebrating birthdays came from. According to one of them, it all started with the cult of Mithra, the ancient Iranian sun god, who was brought to Europe by the soldiers of the Roman Empire. Some traditions of Mithraism and pagan rituals (for example, Saturnalia) - cult meals, the customs of giving gifts to each other - were the first prototypes of birthday celebrations.
According to another version, the birthday is even older. Wild tribes had beliefs that on the day of birth, a person became especially vulnerable to evil spirits, and his fellow tribesmen surrounded and protected him with their wishes, and then with offerings. The prototypes of birthdays may have been days when the entire tribe, led by a chieftain and shamans, came to worship their idols.
They began to celebrate their birthday in Ancient Egypt, later this custom spread to Assyria. But it concerned only prominent people - pharaohs and kings, as well as their male heirs. The first written records of the celebration of the birthdays of the Egyptian pharaohs date back to about 3000 BC. A feast was held in the palace, in which, in addition to the nobility, both servants and slaves took part. Often, on the occasion of the birthday of the pharaoh, prisoners were released from prisons.

For a long time, the birthdays of women were not only not celebrated, but not even recorded. As far as we know, the first woman to receive the annual holiday was Cleopatra II, Queen of Egypt (185-116 BC).

The ancient Greeks celebrated the birthdays of their gods 12 times a year (for example, the birthday of Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt, was celebrated on the sixth of every month). As for ordinary mortals, only the head of the family - husband and father - enjoyed this privilege, and then only once a year. On women and children special attention did not pay. But neither then, nor later, in the Middle Ages, the birthdays of people were almost never celebrated. For the most part, mankind did not use calendars. And the life of each individual did not mean anything.

With the spread of Christianity, the tradition of celebrating someone's birthdays disappeared. The early Christians viewed the world as a place of sorrow and believed that a joyful event was not a birth, but the departure of a person, his deliverance from a sinful world. In addition, traditions inherited from pagans - Egyptians, Greeks and Romans - were discouraged by the church.

And only in the years of the Reformation the opportunity to arrange a holiday, regardless of the days dedicated to any saints, suddenly seemed very attractive. at first solemn days births were the privilege of kings. Then children were allowed to the ceremony - Germany became the first country to celebrate children's birthdays.

Gradually, the position of the church softened, and by the 12th century, parish priests had kept books of registration of birth and baptism. Then the families began to celebrate the birthdays of not only adult men, but also women and children.

In the XIII century, the German peasants developed a ritual children's day birth. The child was woken up at dawn with songs and a cake with candles was brought to him. But the cake was not eaten, and gradually the candles burning on it were replaced with new ones until the evening, when the family was going to dinner. The birthday boy blew out the candles and made a wish. To make the wish come true, it was necessary to keep it secret, and blow out all the candles with one breath. After this ceremony, the cake was divided among the audience. There were as many candles on it as the age of the hero of the occasion, plus one candle, symbolizing the very moment of birth. Just like Santa Claus or Santa Claus brings gifts to everyone on Christmas or New Year's Eve, a special “birthday gnome” brought gifts for his birthday. This figure was preserved in German folklore until the beginning of the 20th century.

Well, now Happy Birthday is sung in many languages \u200b\u200band in many countries.

In Russia, name days began to be celebrated only in the 17th century. On the eve, they brewed beer, baked pies and a loaf and sang a song about it. Tsarist birthdays were particularly splendid, and loaves were handed out to the people. It is known: so much money was spent on Elizaveta Petrovna's name day that it was possible to build three luxurious palaces with furnishings on them. Name days of members of the imperial family and church hierarchs were called namesakes. But birthdays in Russia became holidays only in the 19th century - and then among nobles and wealthy merchants.

It was not customary to celebrate a birthday neither in the Orthodox nor in the Catholic tradition. Catholics celebrated only the birthdays of saints, Orthodox - only three births: the Nativity of Christ, the Mother of God and John the Baptist.

But the Protestants thought differently - and celebrated the birthdays of ordinary mortals.

Name days were not celebrated in Russia after the revolution. And even Korney Chukovsky's "Mukha-tsokotukha" was banned in the 1920s, including for the propaganda that "Nowadays, the fly-tsokotukha is the birthday girl ...".

Who invented to celebrate the birthday?

Birthday is a miracle of a holiday that carries in itself incomparable joy. After all, then days, months, years will fly by and the first birthday will become the second, third, tenth and sixty. As this event is noted, every time you want something special, but some standard rules remain - inviting guests, treating gifts, birthday cake with candles, games, contests, beautiful wishes from invited guests, merry dances, colorful balloons, fireworks, funny colorful drawings on the body - face painting or bio tattoos, funny clowns with their own tricks and tricks, trained animals - cats, dogs, pigeons, boas, spiders, shows with a lot of soap bubbles - small, large, medium and human in a bubble. Nowadays, a birthday is always celebrated brightly and cheerfully, they often turn to professional animators, veterans or agencies. They know the essence of this troublesome business of organizing a celebration, with a wide range of services - from the departure of a funny clown to incredible fireworks and performances with trained animals. However, with all the indisputable advantages of this option for holding a holiday, there are huge disadvantages - firms offering professional services do not always individually approach the organization's decision have a nice holiday, therefore, when organizing a holiday, you yourself need to put your soul into it. There are always many questions, but both young and old were interested in the question - who first thought of celebrating this wonderful event in the life of every person, state, company, city, village, school. To be honest, historians have not yet found the definitively correct answer. From some facts and aspects, versions follow, which are not few and which one you like we can read below and join one of them. A birthday is a special day of the year on which a particular person was born. In many cultures, in all centuries, this day was celebrated, in the past it was dances, and in our time it is noisy parties with clowns or other fairy-tale heroes, giving various gifts to the hero of the occasion. Probably, we are accustomed to celebrating our birthday, birth, mothers, grandmothers, girlfriends only because the tradition of celebrating a birthday has always existed, but in different formats. If you still return to the origins of the emergence and ask the question - who came up with this holy holiday birthday. There are several assumptions and one of them is the main tradition laid down in the time of Jesus Christ, draw an analogy between the celebration of the Birthday and the Nativity of Christ. This holiday, in fact, at first glance has nothing to do with a religious person, but in no other sources other than the Bible were there memories of the birthday celebration. Specifically about this event, the birthday is described in all the Gospels and the first traditions are remembered, we all love to give presents. Specifically a passage from the Bible “And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the hotel. In that country there are shepherds in the field who kept watch over their flocks by night. Suddenly the Angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the Glory of the Lord shone on them. And they were afraid of great fear. And the Angel said to them - do not be afraid, I proclaim to you great joy that will be to all people - for a Savior was born to you today in the city of David. who is Christ the Lord, and here is a sign for you - you will find a baby in swaddling clothes lying in a manger. And suddenly there appeared from heaven the army of heaven, glorifying God and calling out - Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, in people favor. When the Angels departed from them to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, let's go to Bethlehem and see what happened there, as the Lord announced to us. And hurrying they went, and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger ... She gave birth to a son, her firstborn, and he called his name Jesus. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, the wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. They asked the king where the king of Judah was born, for they saw a star in the east and came to worship Him. Hearing this, Herod the king was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him. Herod secretly summoned the Magi, found out from them the time of the appearance of the star. And, having sent them to Bethlehem, he said that everyone should thoroughly find out about the newborn baby, and when everyone knew about Him, they told him that he should come to worship. They listened to the king and went. The star walked in front of them and finally stopped at the place where the Baby was. And they entered the house, saw the Child and Mary, His mother, and fell down they worshiped Him, and opening their treasures of their gifts - gold, frankincense and myrrh. " In this context, all the traditions we know are described in detail - holiday guests and gifts, which today are an integral part. The sages gave the little birthday boy a difficult gift of some kind, and the most valuable thing at that time was gold, which meant that the baby was rich in the world, Myrrh-humbled and incense, so that it never got sick, because incense heals from all ailments. If you follow the Biblical interpretation, then in the New Testament after the birth of Jesus Christ there were many stories. Therefore, we can say that the Lord blessed a man commanded to celebrate. According to the Bible, the birth of a new person is a new soul is born and the angels sing in the nebeks, so why people cannot sing, they simply have to. In most cultures of the Earth, a birthday is a significant event, which is accompanied by gifts, rituals and special honors of the hero of the day.

There is also another hypothesis about where the tradition of celebrating birthdays came from. According to one of them, it all started with the cult of Mithra, the ancient Iranian sun god, who was brought to Europe by the soldiers of the Roman Empire. Some traditions of Mithraism and pagan rituals (for example, Saturnalia), cult meals, the customs of making gifts to each other were the first prototypes of birthday celebrations.
According to another version, the birthday is even older. Wild tribes had beliefs that on the day of birth, a person became especially vulnerable to evil spirits, and his fellow tribesmen surrounded and protected him with their wishes, and then with offerings. The prototypes of birthdays may have been the days when the entire tribe, led by the leader and shamans, came to worship their idols.

If we analyze further, we will consider magic, where the most revered of all holidays in the satanic religion is the birthday of a person. This holiday directly contradicts the spirit of the holy of holies of other religions, who deify a certain god, created in the form of an anthropomorphic creature in their image and likeness, which demonstrates a far from complete rejection of the ego. The Satanist reasons as follows: "Why not face the truth; if you if you want to create God in your image, why not create him like you. " Every man is God, if he chooses to recognize himself as such. Thus, the Satanist celebrates his birthday as the most important day of the year, and it goes on to say: After the birthday, Walpurgis Night and All Saints' Eve are considered the two most important Satanic holidays.

The Greeks celebrated the birthdays of their gods. But neither then, nor later, in the Middle Ages, the birthdays of people were almost never celebrated. For the most part, mankind did not use calendars. And the life of each individual did not mean anything.

And only in the years of the Reformation the opportunity to arrange a holiday, regardless of the days dedicated to any saints, suddenly seemed very attractive. In the beginning, solemn birthdays were the privilege of kings. Then children were allowed to the ceremony - Germany became the first country to celebrate children's birthdays. Well, now Happy Birthday is sung in many languages \u200b\u200band in many countries.
In Russia, name days began to be celebrated only in the 17th century. On the eve, they brewed beer, baked pies and a loaf and sang a song about it. Tsarist birthdays were particularly splendid, and loaves were handed out to the people. It is known: so much money was spent on Elizaveta Petrovna's name day that it was possible to build three luxurious palaces with furnishings on them. Name days of members of the imperial family and church hierarchs were called namesakes. But birthdays in Russia became holidays only in the 19th century, and then among nobles and rich merchants

As mentioned above, there were several versions of the emergence of celebrating a birthday, and many stories claim that the idea of \u200b\u200bcelebrating a birthday has its ancient origins since the time of ancient pagan rites, so to speak, a connection with black magic. If you analyze, then the general characteristics can be traced as in the rituals of magic - it is natural to use magic spells, asking for favors from both good and evil forces of nature, heaven, space, and according to magical beliefs, the human spirit is most vulnerable and defenseless on the day and hour of his birth birth for evil forces, and at the same time most susceptible to all magical spells. All congratulations and wishes can then be perceived as magic spells that can affect the fate of a person, both in a good and bad way. Naturally, the way good wishes carry a positive in themselves, bring good luck, then, accordingly, the newborn on this day should avoid meeting with enemies and ill-wishers on this day, the birthday person should be surrounded exclusively by his beloved friends, so to speak well-wishers. Some people in our time believe this version of the origin of the birthday more, although Christianity and Paganism, Black Magic were at one time equal religions, and more specifically, they constantly waged a fierce war for the human soul. This fully explains why the very first Christians, even before the birth of Christ, did not celebrate their birthday. They considered this holiday demonic as it was filled with magical rituals - dances, spells, chants, dances. There is a historical fact that the first Christians, and these were Jews, the first Christians did not celebrate their birthday - this is evidenced by the records of the historian Josephus dating back to the first century AD. "The law forbids the sons of Israel to celebrate the holiday on their birthday, so as not to anger the Lord our excessive libations ”.

The birthday holiday is a special day of the year on which this or that person was born. In many cultures, in all centuries, this day was celebrated, in the past it was dances, and in our time it is noisy parties with clowns or other fairy-tale heroes, giving various gifts to the hero of the occasion. Probably, we are accustomed to celebrating our birthdays, births, mothers, grandmothers, girlfriends only because the tradition of celebrating a birthday has always existed, but in different formats. If you still go back to the origins of its origin and ask yourself a question - who invented this bright birthday holiday. There are several assumptions and one of them is the main tradition laid down in the time of Jesus Christ, draw an analogy between the celebration of the Birthday and the Nativity of Christ. This holiday, in fact, at first glance has nothing to do with a religious person, but in no other sources other than the Bible were there memories of the birthday celebration. Specifically about this event, the birthday is described in all the Gospels and the first traditions are remembered, we all love to give presents. Specifically from the Bible “And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the hotel. In that country there are shepherds in the field who kept watch over their flocks by night. Suddenly the Angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the Glory of the Lord shone on them. And they were afraid of great fear. And the Angel said to them - do not be afraid, I proclaim to you great joy that will be to all people - for a Savior was born to you today in the city of David. who is Christ the Lord, and here is a sign for you - you will find a baby in swaddling clothes lying in a manger. And suddenly the heavenly army appeared from heaven, glorifying God and calling out - Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth, good will in men. When the Angels departed from them to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, let's go to Bethlehem and see what happened there, as the Lord announced to us. And hurrying they went, and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger ... She gave birth to a son, her firstborn, and he called his name Jesus. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, the wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. They asked the king where the king of the Jews was born, for they saw a star in the east and came to worship Him. Hearing this, Herod the king was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him. Herod secretly summoned the Magi, found out from them the time of the appearance of the star. And, having sent them to Bethlehem, he said that everyone should thoroughly inquire about the newborn baby, and when everyone knew about Him, they told him that he should come to worship. They listened to the king and went. The star walked in front of them and finally stopped at the place where the Baby was. And they entered the house, saw the Child and Mary, His mother, and fell down worshiping Him, and opening their treasures of gifts - gold, frankincense and myrrh. " In this context, all familiar traditions are described in detail - holiday guests and gifts, which today are an integral part.

As mentioned above, there were several versions of the emergence of celebrating a birthday, and the second story claims that the idea of \u200b\u200bcelebrating a birthday has its ancient origins since the time of ancient pagan rites, so to speak, a connection with black magic. If you analyze, then the general characteristics can be traced as in the rites of magic - it is natural to use magic spells, asking for favors from both the good and evil forces of nature, heaven, space, and according to magical beliefs, the human spirit is most vulnerable and defenseless on the day and hour of his birth birth for evil forces, and at the same time most susceptible to all magical spells. All congratulations and wishes can then be perceived as magic spells that can affect the fate of a person, both for the good and for the bad. Naturally, since good wishes carry a positive, bring good luck, then, accordingly, a newborn on this day should avoid meeting with enemies and ill-wishers on this day, the birthday man should be surrounded exclusively by his beloved friends, so to speak, well-wishers. Some people in our time believe this version of the origin of the birthday more, although Christianity and Paganism, Black Magic were at one time equal religions, and more specifically, they constantly waged a fierce war for the human soul. This fully explains why the very first Christians, even before the birth of Christ, did not celebrate their birthday. They considered this holiday demonic as it was filled with magical rituals - dances, spells, chants, dances. There is a historical fact that the first Christians, and these were Jews, the first Christians did not celebrate their birthday - this is evidenced by the records of the historian Josephus dating back to the first century AD. "The law forbids the sons of Israel to celebrate the holiday on their birthday, so as not to anger the Lord our excessive libations ”.

The third version of the origin of the tradition of celebrating a birthday appeared at the time of worship of the sun god, more specifically the ancient Iranian sun god miter, which was widespread in Persia. From the near east, the custom of celebrating this holiday has spread over the years throughout Europe, this was facilitated by the soldiers of the Roman Empire. The holiday in Rome came to my liking so much that it replaced the traditional Roman ones. So that there would not be songs and dances at the birth of the Roman emperor, it became an integral part of Rome. Everyone knows how much the Roman Empire was a state of play - the famous gladiator fights, water fights, the birthday games and contests also start from these parts.

Birthday is a holiday celebrated by absolutely all residents of our vast Motherland, regardless of gender, race and age. Despite the enormous popularity of this wonderful holiday, many of us do not even know about the origin of the birthday. At the same time, it should be noted that the traditions and customs of this holiday have an entertaining and interesting history of origin. But despite the great popularity of the birthday, science to this day cannot accurately explain the roots of the holiday. Absolutely accurate information about the history of the holiday does not exist, but nevertheless, at least two versions are known that try to explain the history of the birthday. Birthday is a holiday celebrated by absolutely all residents of our vast Motherland, regardless of gender, race and age. Despite the enormous popularity of this wonderful holiday, many of us do not even know about the origin of the birthday. At the same time, it should be noted that the traditions and customs of this holiday have an entertaining and interesting history of origin. But despite the great popularity of the birthday, science to this day cannot accurately explain the roots of the holiday. Absolutely accurate information about the history of the holiday does not exist, but nevertheless, at least two versions are known that try to explain the history of the birthday. Birthday is a holiday celebrated by absolutely all residents of our vast Motherland, regardless of gender, race and age. Despite the enormous popularity of this wonderful holiday, many of us do not even know about the origin of the birthday. At the same time, it should be noted that the traditions and customs of this holiday have an entertaining and interesting history of origin. But despite the great popularity of the birthday, science to this day cannot accurately explain the roots of the holiday. Absolutely accurate information about the history of the holiday does not exist, but nevertheless, at least two versions are known that try to explain the history of the birthday.

Birthdays are special days in which a person becomes not only a god, but also a part of the ancient system of satanic mysteries. The custom of celebrating birthdays has a lot to do with the idea of \u200b\u200bsacrificing people and that human life can be disposed of as you please. This tradition has nothing to do with the Bible, it is not pleasing to God, since it is aimed at weakening the power of God.

God gave us His calendar and system of holidays. Birthdays are backed by a fake calendar .

So, the origins of the emergence to celebrate this wonderful holiday Birthdays are different, but all of them only complement, and years and eras only make their own corrections - new rules are added that grow into traditions. The tradition has become integral over the years family holiday, which no matter what brings only positive emotions.