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<div style="float:right;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:Ratukunti.jpg|200px]]</div>In [[Hindia Belanda|Hindia Belandan]] myth, the '''Ratukunti''' is a demon whose origins lie in prehistoric Hindia Belandan cultures. The Ratukunti is said to be the leader of the [[Boentianak|boentianaks]], who are vengeful vampiric beings transformed from the spirits of women who died during childbirth. Whilst the boentianaks were human, the Ratukunti is not but only takes on a human form when making an apparition in order to lure unsuspecting people who may be wandering alone on certain nights of the year. When taking a human form, the Ratukunti is described as a lady with facial tattoos, suggesting Austronesian origins, wearing a long robe often associated with the [[Anjani Empire|Andjanian nobility]] and an elaborate headgear with palm fronds. The prevalence of the Ratukunti in virtually every folklore of all islands in Hindia Belanda except the island of [[Papoea]] suggests that it was spread by Andjanians during the expansionist period of the [[Anjani Empire|Andjani Empire]].<ref>Ladjoeng 2007, p. 133.</ref> ('''[[Ratukunti|See more...]]''')
<div style="float:right;margin:1em;">[[File:Châteauneuf-sur-Cher-Basilique-NDDE-Crèche-Noël-01.jpg|200px]]</div>'''Christmas in Great Nortend''' is a widely celebrated holiday, as in most {{wp|Christian}} countries. As one of the [[Nortish Rite#Calendar|great high festivals]] observed by the [[Church of Nortend]], it commands a place in the religious life of the nation second only to Easter. As such, Christmas is normally celebrated focussing on religious tradition, commemorating the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, although more secular customs have always been a staple of the season since its inception in Great Nortend with the arrival and spread of Christianity in the 8th century.
 
Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but is followed by various festivals until Epiphany on January 6th, making the „Twelve Days of Christmas”. Christmas is preceded by the six weeks of Advent which is characterised by penance and fasting. Hence, when the Christmas season, called Christmastide, arrives, it is all the more spectacularly marked by festivities, feasting, shopping and general merriments. Christmas is also the beginning of the Christmas term, one of the four quarterly terms of the [[Civil year of Great Nortend|civil year]] which begins on Michaelmas, September 29th, in the Michaelmas term. ('''[[Christmas in Great Nortend|See more...]]''')
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Christmas in Great Nortend is a widely celebrated holiday, as in most Christian countries. As one of the great high festivals observed by the Church of Nortend, it commands a place in the religious life of the nation second only to Easter. As such, Christmas is normally celebrated focussing on religious tradition, commemorating the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, although more secular customs have always been a staple of the season since its inception in Great Nortend with the arrival and spread of Christianity in the 8th century.

Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but is followed by various festivals until Epiphany on January 6th, making the „Twelve Days of Christmas”. Christmas is preceded by the six weeks of Advent which is characterised by penance and fasting. Hence, when the Christmas season, called Christmastide, arrives, it is all the more spectacularly marked by festivities, feasting, shopping and general merriments. Christmas is also the beginning of the Christmas term, one of the four quarterly terms of the civil year which begins on Michaelmas, September 29th, in the Michaelmas term. (See more...)

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