What is Luciatåg? Thai-Canadian Couple Learn About Swedish Lucia Celebration! 

Should I say "Happy Luciatåg?"

Search for Lucia 2015 SVT with subtitles and you will have the whole ceremony. 🎶🎶🇸🇪🌟

You two are soo funny 😂 love your swedish 🙌 Tomorrow you have to watch a real luciatåg!

The celebration of St Lucia is important. A strange festival about a Catholic saint. She plucked both her eyes out, and we celebrate this every year, with light and ginger bread cookies 😊 And saffron buns of course.

Please listen to some of the lucia songs performed by the entire luciatåg, it is very different and soooo amazing

Tommy Johansson did a typical Lucia song in last years Advent calendar on his channel that she didn't sing in this video. It's called "Gläns över sjö och strand (Shine over sea and beach)" or "Betlehems stjärna (Star of Betlehem)". It's a poem by Victor Rydberg set to music about the star of Betlehem. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-18oiwqePREQ.html

Enormously entertaining ❤

Lussebulle = Saffran bun. Pepparkaka = Gingerbread snaps/cookies. Glögg = Mulled wine, served warm with or without raisins and almonds. Sometimes with alcohol, but mostly not.

I learned so much about this that I didn't know before. 😁

Haha! Thanks I love your singing! 😘🎶🎶😉

Fun reception! And SO MANY CUTE DOGS! I would love to learn their names!

Sweden is not religious either, but we love our high festivals because they resonate with out true, Nordic souls, before Christianity came here to distort and twist everything to be about the Middle-Eastern desert guy called Jesus.

"Tåg" does mean Train, but in this context it means March, or Parade. The yellow buns are Wheat buns with Saffron (hence the color) and raisins. No Cinnamon, Kardemum, or Sugar, so quite bland. "Stjärngossar" symbolizes the Whise men who came with gifts to Jesus when he was born.

Good work on the singing! 😂

Sujy has the right look to be the Lucia. Now learn the songs!

Lucia was a christian girl in the late days of the Roman empire, about 300 AD. The christians were taken captive and forced to give up their religion, but Lucia refused, so she remained a captive. A man said that she had beautiful eyes, so she plucked them out and sent them to her beloved, so only he could admire them. But, God gave her the eyes back, which was a miracle. She continued refusing to change her religion and eventually she was burned at the stake for this. Because of the miracle with her eyes "and stuff" she became canonized and known as Saint Lucia. In Sweden, we have always celebrated "Lusse" for many hundreds of years, but rather late, in the 1800's, saint Lucia was introduced to the celebrations. "Lusse" is actually the devil, the evil forces. Lusse is about appeasing the evil forces in the harsh and dark winter to spare us. It is said (back in time) that the loved one of saint Lucia, the one she sent her eyes to, is actually the devil and that she is the mother of the underworldy, all the elfs, gnomes, trolls, spirits etc. We do a kind of "cos-play" with the event where she was taken to be burned at the stake. The light crown on her head is the gloria. The red belt is her bleeding wounds from torture. She is followed by an entourage of maidens to her execution. In this enourage we may also see boys dressed in pointy hats, like orthodox priests from 300 AD (her executioners). Also boys and girls dressed like gingerbread men, representing "citizens" coming to watch the execution. And then some in red "santa claus" clothes representing the spirit world, her children with the devil. The yellow saffron bun Lussekatt = Devil's cat, note the decorations on top of it, two raisins. That's her eyes. The Lussecat is the body, the flesh of the devil. We consume the bun = the devil, to make him go away but it's done in his honour, to please him by acknowledge him, so he leaves us alone. Compare it with the christian communion in the churches where you consume the body of christ... And to this we drink a lot of coffee, = the devil's blood, like the communion wine? (I made that up, but the bun is correct, shaped as a lemniskata it's representing the devil's flesh, in possession of Lucia's eyes) So, breaking it down in it's symbols it's actually a black mass, a satanic ritual. But it's the number one family event, the "most traditional and real" pre-christian christmas celebration, done to avoid problems with the devil by celebrating his bride and make him in a good mood at the time of year when his strength is at it's peak. We usually don't look too deep into the symbolic features and the saffron buns tastes incredibly good.

Sujys swedish is very good.

you are both wery sweet)

react to swedish culture! good vid btw

Christianity, since it entered Europe, was adapted to previous Pagan rituals and high festivals for the people to accept the new religion. Christianity is trash, pre-Christian traditions are pure and true light.