Have you ever wondered where the name of Christmas - Christmas - comes from? There are different hypotheses on this topic, here are some of them.
The Slavic name for Christmas has a folk etymology that is associated with the goddess Lada, but this explanation does not have much authority.
The most reliable, factual explanation seems to be that "kalo kalende" comes from the Roman Kalends - holidays that were celebrated at the end of December and the beginning of January. There are many details in all these holidays, but after the Kalends, the new social life began - the new consuls gathered.
The new year is associated with the beginning of a new social life, because the idea is that the world is constantly renewed and a cyclical repetition of everything takes place, writes "Focus".
Mircea Eliade has a hypothesis that mythical thinking has a Platonic structure. The Platonic structure of mythological thinking leads to the idea that the myth speaks of the creation of the world.
The world was created out of nothing and begins to develop. Every year this scenario is played out - human life goes through chaos and then order is restored again. Everything in the world must go through this chaos in order for a new beginning to begin. The end of the old year and the end of the old - of all the old life - that is why many things are thrown away - in order to start anew and anew.