Have you ever wondered why our candles are perfect cakes and that you only fire one year old for celebrations? The birthday cake has a long and dark history, but most of the explanation revolves around the worship of the gods. True: Happy birthday, supernatural being.
Many Millennium Origins
Our oldest known birthday is 4,000 years ago. The coronation of Pharaoh in ancient Egypt was a big deal because they believed that the king was transformed from a man to a god. In the Bible, Egyptian Dr. James Hoffmeier talks about the celebration of a Pharaoh's birthday with the belief that he is in the coronation of the coronation, or believes that the "birth as god" is as far back as the second millennium BC. However, historians know, they did not cook cake for the event.
The Greeks put candles on a cola for different reasons. Zeus's daughter and Apollo's twin sister, Artemis, was the goddess of the prey. To honor her, the Greeks offer round or moon shaped honeydews, decorating them with candles to match the glitter of the full. Candles could be more than symbolic: some ancient cultures believed that smoke could help to carry duality to the gods.
The first people we knew were almost certainly Romanians who were used to celebrate old people's birthdays. To honor friends and family birthdays, the cooks are cooked with wheat flour, olive oil, honey and grated cheese.
Birthdays on modern day
Of course, birthday cake is more associated with children than adults. The modern child's birthday cake began with the German Kinderfest in the late 18th century. These events celebrated children with cake each year covered with a candle. Also, they are dealing with candles, and they keep a wish by reminding them of early religious traditions.
Nowadays parents are a curious sleep that parents of birthday cakes with high allergy and sugar anxiety worries. The cake and candle routines are as popular as ever, although the wax grows every time and the bacteria on the top of the cake will increase by a factor of 14 on average. It just keeps showing us how long we'll be going to celebrate each other. As Sarah Zhang wrote in Atlantic, "the socially acceptable ways of spitting are compatible with the existing bonds of trust". It's true that the kisses are right.