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Crayshack t1_iz6i559 wrote

Reply to comment by MrBobaFett in TIL "The Twelve Days of Christmas" STARTS on Christmas Day, and ends of January 5th (Three Kings Day). by HauntedHippie

Not everyone celebrates Christmas. I'm not Christian, so I've only vaguely heard the term "12 Days of Christmas" and "Advent" before. Never with enough context for me to know anything about it other than them vaguely being associated with Christmas I've never heard the term "Christmastide" before your comment and the term "Epiphany" just sort of vaguely means "having a sudden idea". I've never heard it used in a religious context before.

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MrBobaFett t1_iz6mssz wrote

>Not everyone celebrates Christmas.

Thus "especially other Christians." I mean it's also a major religion so... I'm not Muslim, Jewish, or Hindu, but I'm aware of their major holidays and tenets.
Advent comes from Latin for arrival, it's the season of preparation for the arrival of Christ.

Tide is a suffix that means time of or season of used for many holy festivals, thus Yuletide, Christmastide, Eastertide, Epiphanytide, etc. Christmastide is Dec 25th-Jan 5th.

Epiphany (also called Three Kings Day) comes from Greek to reveal or to appear. This holiday commemorates the arrival of the Three Magi or in the Eastern Church the bastism of Jesus. Either way, the revealing of the Christ to the world. Epiphanytide then runs to Feb 2nd, ending with Candlemas.

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