Episode 5: It's The Holidays!
It's officially The Holiday Season, or is it? Holidays are times of celebration and coming together. What is celebrated and how differs from society to society and home to home drastically. In many cultures, many holidays have been celebrated over centuries, particularly religious holidays. The nature of these legacy holidays have been changing quite drastically over the years. Many other holidays have also gone extinct along with the society that celebrated them and the context they were celebrated in. It is fair to say holidays have a life of their own, coming into existence, growing, evolving and eventually dying. As much as they affect the society that celebrates them, often in quite profound ways, they are affected by society alike. In this podcast, the Janus Crew, Dawit Asrat Wachelo and Michael Legesse Shiferaw, discuss the purported origin of holidays, the various holidays around the world, their personal experience and the evolution of celebratory culture they have personally witnessed.