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On this holiday, people, drawing water, bring it home and store it throughout the year. It stays fresh all this time. Also in January, they celebrate the Jordan or Epiphany (Jordan bathing (Epiphany bathing)). According to the Orthodox tradition, everywhere on January, ice holes in the form of a cross were cut down in the ice of frozen rivers, called “Jordan“. A procession of the cross was performed to them in large cities and villages from early morning. Basically, those who were “hypocritical“ and sinned on Christmastide dived into the icy water in order to cleanse themselves of sinful filth in consecrated water, and some simply bathed “for health.“ And this is all, in spite of the severe frost, as a rule, always accompanying this holiday. В январе проводят праздник Иордан или Крещение (Иорданское купание (КРЕЩЕНСКИЕ КУПАНИЯ)). В Вечер Богоявления или как его еще называют Крещенский вечер, второй Святой Вечер или “Голодная кутья“ – ук
