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Similar figures, bearing baskets on their heads, are called canephores (from kanēphoroi, "basket carriers"); they represent the maidens who carried sacred objects used at feasts of the gods.
Red is used at Pentecost, recalling the fiery tongues that descended upon the Apostles when they received the Holy Spirit, and also at feasts of the Holy Cross, Apostles, and martyrs, as symbol of their bloody passions (sufferings and deaths).
Although turkey was eaten in Britain at feasts, it didn't become the top bird for Christmas until the 1950s when images of American Thanksgiving reached us, first via cinema, then television.
The tunes were traditionally performed chiefly by members of the society and delivered at feasts celebrating the admittance of a new member, the release of a member from prison or a particularly successful act of vengeance.
Evangeline Morphos, one of New York's most ambitious home cooks and certainly our most ecumenical, gives roughly one dinner party every other week with her husband, Alan Brinkley, and excels at feasts for Passover, Christmas, Greek Orthodox Easter and "American Easter-or real Easter," as she calls it.
The Persian ruler Chusrau Anuschirwan, or Khosrau I (531 – 579) is said to have not been able to tolerate them at feasts because they reminded him of eyes, an association that persists to this day, as described by the poet Ghalib (1797 186969), "God has given the eye of the narcissus the power of seeing".
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