Kur svinēt Jāņus? Svētku ceļvedis

The following is a translation into English of the above Latvijn text: „How is one to translate the holiday which Diena.lv calls ‘lustig’ (German for joyful celebration), but which from bygone times the Latvijans call The Johns Festival. Once upon a time the festival vas calle the Festival of Johns (Jāņi), which name comes from the word for ‘herder’ of deer and elk as it still is done in the north of Finland. However, those who were overcome by the Christian Church of the West (Catholic), they were happy to try rename ‘Janis’ with the name ‘pa=janis’, lesser John, aka, pagan. This is about the same when the Western internacionale writes Latvija . ‘Latvia’, leaving out the consonant J. In short, when the name of Latvija should be spoken Latvidzha or Latvaidzha, the Western international pronojunces it ‘Latvia’. While in terms of meaning the diference appsears to make sense and does not appear to be a great deal, in fact and in so far as time is involved, the Real sense of the past is being replaced by a fictional past). For example, Rīga, today the capital city of Latvia, many believe to once have been called Līga, which word means League, which would indicate that Līga preexisted the founding of the Hansatic League by Biskap Albert from Bremen (and of a viking descent) and had its origin in eithber a viking originated tradesmanship or even preexisted it. At the same time ‘Līga’ may mean a proto latvijan curse on Bishop Alberts for his effort to rename Līga as Jerusalem, which was the proto kingdom of Jersika. ‘Jersika’ is the proto Latvijan word, which is a linguistic variation of Jerusalem. In the year 1209, Biskap Albert attacked Jersika and burnt it to the ground. The consequence was that many Jersikans cursed Līga, with the name „liga”, which in proto Latvijan means a sickness, a foul growth manifesting itself as a city. Bishop Albert, because he could not hide his violent deeds, could not rename Līga/Rīga for Jerusalem, but had to be satisfied with changing the consonant L into R, wherewith Līga became and remains Rīga and the Jersikans made their curse stick. Thus, the academically limited Latvian government is most likely to celebrate Johns Day as a ‘lustig’ day, where in fact the celebration belongs to that of the people of countryside and the wood.