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Olentzero, the Glossary

Olentzero (sometimes Olentzaro or Olantzaro) is a character in Basque Christmas tradition.^[1]

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Basque giants
Basque legendary creatures
Christmas gift-bringers
Christmas in Spain
Fictional Basque people

Agatha of Sicily

Agatha of Sicily is a Christian saint. Her feast is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania, part of the Roman Province of Sicily, and was martyred. She is one of several virgin martyrs who are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. Agatha is the patron saint of Catania, Molise, Malta, San Marino, Gallipoli in Apulia, and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia in Spain.

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Areso

Areso is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.

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Basque Country (greater region)

The Basque Country (Euskal Herria; País Vasco; Pays basque) is the name given to the home of the Basque people.

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Bayonne

Bayonne (Baiona; Baiona; Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border.

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Berastegi

Berastegi (Berástegui) is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain, at the shores of the river Elduaran or Berastegi, at 1° 58' 45" west and 43° 07' 27" north, and at an altitude of 400 m. It borders Ibarra to the north, with Eldua to the east, and to the south and west with Belauntza.

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Charcoal burner

A charcoal burner is someone whose occupation is to manufacture charcoal.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season.

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Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.

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Christmas gift-bringer

A number of Midwinter or Christmas traditions in European folklore involve gift-bringers. Olentzero and Christmas gift-bringer are Christmas characters and Christmas gift-bringers.

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Christmas in the Basque Country

Christmas in the Basque Country starts with the of Santo Tomas on 21 December, a celebration in which most people go out onto the streets to dance and eat talo with txistorra (a type of Basque chorizo). Olentzero and Christmas in the Basque Country are Christmas in Spain.

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Dima, Spain

Dima is a town and municipality of the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country, Spain.

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Ermua

Ermua is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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Father Christmas

Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Olentzero and Father Christmas are Christmas characters and Christmas gift-bringers.

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Francoist Spain

Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.

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Gender parity

Gender parity is a statistical measure used to describe ratios between men and women, or boys and girls, in a given population.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.

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Giant

In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance.

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Gipuzkoa

Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa; Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country.

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Jentil

The jentil (or jentilak with the Basque plural), are a race of giants in Basque mythology. Olentzero and jentil are basque giants and basque legendary creatures.

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Julio Caro Baroja

Julio Caro Baroja (13 November 1914 – 18 August 1995) was a Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.

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Larraun

Larraun (Larráun) is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.

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Lekunberri, Spain

Lekunberri (Basque.

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Lesaka

Lesaka is a town and municipality in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, in Spain.

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Liturgy

Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.

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Lower Navarre

Lower Navarre (Nafarroa Beherea/Baxenabarre; Gascon/Bearnese: Navarra Baisha; Basse-Navarre; Baja Navarra) is a traditional region of the present-day French département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

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Metathesis (from Greek, from "I put in a different order"; Latin: transpositio) is the transposition of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence.

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Navarre

Navarre, officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France.

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Ochagavía – Otsagabia

Ochagavía or Otsagabia (also Otsagi) is a town and municipality in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.

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Pamplona

Pamplona (Iruña) is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain.

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Père Noël

Père Noël, "Father Christmas", sometimes called 'Papa Noël' ("Daddy Christmas"), is a legendary gift-bringer at Christmas in France and other French-speaking areas, identified with the Father Christmas and/or Santa Claus of English-speaking territories. Olentzero and Père Noël are Christmas characters and Christmas gift-bringers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olentzero

Also known as Olentzaro.

Olentzero, the Glossary

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See also

Basque giants

Basque legendary creatures

Christmas gift-bringers

Christmas in Spain

Fictional Basque people

References