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Birthday Goddess Card
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Birthday Goddess Card
Have you ever wondered how our birthday traditions came to be? The cake, the candles, the hats? It turns out that they are an ancient ritual in honour of a long-forgotten deity – the Birthday Goddess. Her actual name has been lost to time, but we can call her Natalie, and it seems she was a lovely goddess, or at least as lovely as someone with six arms can be. As legend has it, Natalie had the power to grant immortality. All one had to do was honour her once a year on the day of one’s birth with a sacrifice by fire: a birthday cake. Details of the ritual are fuzzy, but it involved preparing one’s very favourite baked good or confection and then setting it ablaze whilst singing a celebratory song. Sounds simple enough, yes? Well, actually, no. Try as they might to console themselves with cocktails and gifts, apparently the loss of the cake was too much to bear, and the celebrant would often make mad attempts to extinguish the blaze and save it. In fact, it’s thought that hot cake might have been the reason ice cream entered into the birthday equation. Eventually candles proved more conducive to having an edible cake afterwards, and party hats were provided in the event that one’s own hat went up in flames while blowing out the candles. At some point, Natalie threw all six hands up in disgust and departed for a dimension with better prospects for burnt butter cream. And because we humans will always try to have our cake and eat it too, we remain mere mortals. [Story is printed on the back of the card.  For this card without the story, please visit: http://www.redbubble.com/people/winonacookie/works/11436732-birthday-goddess?ref=recent-owner] This piece and its story are copyright 2104 Ramona Szczerba. All Rights Reserved. Please do not reproduce without my express written permission. Thanks!
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