Mother’s Day Celebrations though the Ages
Here at Cloncaia, we are personalized gifts specialists and customize gifts for mother’s day for our customers but have often wondered how long has this tradition been going on, how do they celebrate it in different cultures.
We believe from our own lives Mother’s Day is a top day if not the top day of the year in terms of celebrating a loved one in the annual calendar but to geek out a little – where did this all start ? and here’s what we found.
The clever Greeks
From what we have read the ancient Greeks revered the mother as the giver of life.
Mother earth Gaia signified nature that gives birth to nature. It’s going to get a little geeky now but stick with us.
In Greek mythology her worship was passed to daughter Rhea.
Rhea was known as Titaness mother of gods zeus, hades, hera and others.
The Ancient Romans
The Romans had a festival called Hilaria in honour of mother goddess Cybele which was 250 years before christ was born. Cybele symbolized nature and fertility. The Hilaria festival seems to have been held in March on the calendar each year.
The festival had games, theatre, parades and sacrifices they were a fan of at the time but these were made at her temple in Palatine Hill in Rome.
Interestingly in latin Hilaria means ‘’the cheerful ones’’ ‘’joyful’’.
There were no personalized gifts back in the day but there were offerings of cakes, flowers, honey and festivals had music, dancing and presumably they put a big feast.
Modern Times
In moderns times mother’s day is celebrated at different times in different countries.
Some countries go all in, some countries don’t have the same tradition.
In Ethiopia mother’s day is celebrated for 3 days interestingly enough. Hats off.
A lot of countries introduced the concept of a Mother’s Day celebration at different times in their history.
In Spain this is called – ‘Dia de la Madre’ – which we like as it translates ‘ Day of the Mother ‘.
Mother’s Day – United Kingdom
In the U.K. historically the day used to be called ‘’Mothering Sunday’’ in the 1600s.
People returned to their ‘’mother church’’ for a special service.
Over the course of time a tradition set in of giving mothers flowers & homemade treats.
Flowers must the one of the oldest gifts in the world and still used to this day.
Mother’s Day – United States
A lovely story is that of Ann Reeves Jarvis. She wanted to create a day that honoured all mothers.
She campaigned for years and Mother’s Day became a national holiday in 1914 and it was signed into law.
It’s an incredible story.
Conclusion
It is encouraging to see that mothers have long been revered, honoured traditions do change from culture to culture but ‘Mama’ has long been respected and it’s the way it should be.
Nowadays, we can still celebrate Moms with flowers and cakes like they did a 1000 years ago but also with personalized gifts which is where we come into it.
We help customers create unique gifts for Mother’s Days to celebrate their gift ie their Moms. Each gift is custom made with the Mom in question in mind.
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At Cloncaia we turn everyday objects into meaningful, personalized gifts for family members, friends and for any loved one of our customer. Our motto is ''show the love'' so we apply this to the products creation process by turning Photos, Names, Custom Messages, Portrait drawings into gifts with heart & style for our customers.
Author: Roger J. is the author of this blog and founder of Cloncaia. He believes the best gifts come form the heart and which pack an emotional punch. At Cloncaia we are inspired to create gifts that have meaning and make our customers happy.
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