In Latvia, Midsummer is called J\u0101\u0146i<\/i> or L\u012bgo sv\u0113tki (sv\u0113tki = festival). It is a\u00a0national holiday celebrated on a large scale by almost everyone in Latvia and by people of Latvian origin abroad. Celebrations consist of a lot of traditional and mostly pagan elements – eating J\u0101\u0146i cheese (special recipe with caraway seeds), drinking beer, baking p\u012br\u0101gi, singing hundreds of Latvian folk songs dedicated to J\u0101\u0146i, burning bonfires to keep light all through the night and jumping over it, wearing wreaths of flowers (for women) and\u00a0oak leaves (for men) together with modern commercial products and ideas.<\/p>\n
J\u0101\u0146i has been a strong aspect of Latvian culture throughout history, originating in pre-Christian Latvia as an ancient fertility cult.<\/p>\n
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Happy holidays from<\/p>\n
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