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What Was it Like Celebrating a Birthday in the Middle Ages? (2023x22)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Haz 02, 2023

The earliest mention of a birthday was around the year 3,000 BCE and was in reference to an Egyptian Pharaoh. Although it was more about his transformation into becoming a God at his coronation than his actual birth into the world. The Ancient Greeks celebrated the birthdays of their Gods every year and believed that every person had a spirit assigned to them at birth. A spirit that had a mystic connection with the God on whose birthday they were born.