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=== The Christmas log ===
The Christmas holiday coincides with the winter solstice. The rebirth of the sun is referred to in Basque as Eguberri (new sun – sky – new) and Urtebarri (new year). Certain practices and beliefs around the household fire at Christmas are lined to the Christian festivity of the birth of Christ. Others seem to be related to the old solstice cults that spread throughout the areas of the early Indo-European Civilisation.
The belief that the hearth had a religious meaning and special virtues on Christmas Eve to mark the birth of Jesus was widespread as well.
