Epiphany, it's tomorrow bitches!

[wednes]

H and I just argued whether the 12 days of Christmas ends tomorrow, or ends on Christmas. I was quite confident that it started on the Eve of Christmas night and ended January 6th, which is epiphany.

I said something like, "Crap, we have to take down the Christmas decorations tomorrow."

H asked why.

I said "Because it's the sixth, that's when they come down."

"Says who?" H said.

"Duh, the 12 days of Christmas!" I tell him.

"That's the 12 days before Christmas," he says.

"No way..." I tell him, and proceed to the internets to prove myself right.

Of course H does not trust the validity of Wikipedia OR Snopes, so it's much harder to win an argument with him that way. Once again though, I know more about H's religion than he does.

As for me, I'm home sick today. Luckily, I was in on Saturday so it's not like I'm calling off my first day back. Although today would have probably been a difficult day at work. I'll find out tomorrow, then H and I will finally go grocery shopping which we were supposed to do on Sunday but couldn't, because of the stupid flu.

Comments

[uterdic.livejournal.com]

huh, I thought it was the 12 days before too. This is what I learned for the day and I am not learning anything else until tomorrow.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

;-]

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

I can see not trusting Wikipedia.. but SNOPES? Barbara Mikkelson does all her own research!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes

(Irony intended)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I felt pretty much the same way.

[groovesinorbit]

*nods* Yep, you're right. Tomorrow's the Epiphany (or the Theophany if one's an eastern Christian, apparently. There's my new thing for the day.).

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[gifgal.livejournal.com]

well ive been really wrong then...i thought it started december 1st all the time lol.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

LOL indeed. ;-]

I looked out the window to check, it's still Red and Green.

[chrissigrl.livejournal.com]

No way, you're right, the 12 days STARTS on Christmas day and goes until the 6th of January. According to the book, the Christ Child was born ON December 25, the star appeared, the wise men saw it, and it took them 12 days to find the manger.

Whether Wikipedia is right or not, the Empire State Building went red and green on Christmas, and it'll stay that way until the Epiphany, January 6. That's proof enough for me.

Re: I looked out the window to check, it's still Red and Green.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Okay then!

[spiralwitch.livejournal.com]

i can't say i ever thought about it, haha.
i guess i would've guessed days before or like a during thing ... like 6 then xmas then 5 more? lol.

learn something everyday i suppose :)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

But see, we aren't Christians, so we aren't expected to know all about their holidays.