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And will be good to translate the meaning of Hispanic to me.

Thanks mariana

"Hispanic" means people from cultures in which Spanish or Portuguese are the dominant languages. Mostly it applies to people from Latin America, Mexico and soutward in the New World, in other words. poisonillusions is Hispanic on her mother's side.

The Three Wise Men or the Three Kings, also called the Magi, are figures from the Bible. They are usually understood to be seers, probably from Persia or somewhere thereabouts "in the East", who studied the stars for signs.

They saw a star shining in the sky and followed it. "Where is He born King of the Jews?," they asked. "For we saw His Star in the East and have come to worship Him." The brought gifts of gold, myrrh, and....Frankincense! Probably from Oman, since the finest frankincense has always come from Dhofar.

Their Feast day is called "Epiphany" and is celebrated on January 6. It is the Twelfth and Final Day of Christmas and Twelfth Night celebrations were formerly widespread in England too. Shakespeare wrote a famous play called "Twelfth Night (or What You Will)".

Hispanics are particularly fond of Epiphany, but we celebrate it too!

They are frequently featured in pictures of Christmas, on cards, etc, either with camels and the Star or giving their gifts:

http://www.retinaaustralia.com.au/images/ThreeKings2005NSW.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/1a/333px-WiseMenAdorationMurillo.png

There is a famous and beautiful Christmas Carol, "We Three Kings of Orient Are/
Bearing gifts we traverse afar/
Field and fountain, moor and mountain/
Following yonder star..."

I'll sing it to you when we meet, Ice Tea. You can plug your ears if you don't like it... ;)

Hispanics are people of Spanish decent i.e. Puerto Ricans (me), Mexicans, Hondurans...anyone with a Spanish heritage.

Here is some info on Three Wise Kings:

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

In Christian tradition the Magi, also known as the Three Wise Men, The Three Kings, or Kings from the east, are sometimes considered to be Median, Iranian Zoroastrian priests, who were also proficient in astrology from Ancient Persia. The Gospel of Matthew states that they came "from the east to Jerusalem" to worship the Christ, "born King of the Jews". According to Matthew, they navigated by following a star which came to be known as the Star of Bethlehem. As they approached Jerusalem, Herod tried to trick them into revealing where Jesus was, so that he might be put to death. Upon finding Jesus, the Magi gave him an unspecified number of gifts, amongst which were three highly symbolic ones: gold, frankincense and myrrh. Because these three gifts were recorded, it is traditionally said to have been three givers; however, Matthew does not specify how many wise men came from the east.

For Hispanics Los Rejes Magos holiday:

http://www.elboricua.com/pr_christmas.html

Christmas celebrations in Puerto Rico begin very early in December and do not stop on December 25th. The celebrations can continue into the middle of January if you consider the ''octavas and octavitas''. The big Christmas celebrations are; December 24 - Nochebuena; December 25 - Navidad; December 31 - Despedida de Año; and the biggest and most important of all for the children, of course, el Día de Reyes on January 6th.

Our Reyes celebration begins on the eve of Three Kings Day. On the evening of January 5th Puerto Rican children go outside with scissors and shoe boxes to cut grass for the camels to eat. The grass goes into shoe boxes and the boxes are placed under the beds of parents, grandparents, godparents, uncles, aunts, etc. Some time during the night Los Reyes come and while their camels eat the grass Los Reyes fill the shoe boxes to overflowing with gifts, and sweets, and many wonderful things.

Moved from another thread in Religion Sabla

Marianna and Jeff, Thanks :)

These are really interesting information to know, at least to me I never read or know about them before

Jeff and mariana thanks.

I can see those women on the camels are wearing hijab too.

I can see those women on the camels are wearing hijab too.

How can it be that " The Three Wise Men or the Three Kings " are women on camels wearing hijab :rolleyes:

Maybe those are the queens, Jeff can clarify?

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Maybe those are the queens, Jeff can clarify?

Three Kings! :p In robes... and desert headgear.

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