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On this Birthday cake candle page page we will find a very large selection of Birthday cake candles to choose from. Since we have so many birthday cake candles we have broken them down into separate pages to make selecting a birthday cake candle for your birthday cake much easier and faster.
The history of the Birthday cake candle is very interesting it is said that the custom of placing birthday candles on a birthday cake was started by early Greeks who used to place birthday candles on the cake that they offered to Artemis - the Goddess of Moon.
The Germans, who perfected themselves in the art of candle-making placed birthday candles on the birthday cake but for religious reasons. The Germans used to place a big birthday candle in the centre of the birthday cake to represent ‘light of life’. The birthday candle is marked with lines and numbers, usually 12, which would be burned every year.
Scholars also say that the custom of placing birthday cake candles on birthday cakes originated because people believed that Gods lived in the skies. They thought that a lit birthday candle helped to send signals and prayers to the gods so that they could be answered more effectively.
The tradition of blowing out your birthday candles on your birthday cake was a signal or message to the gods that your prayers would be answered.
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Birthday Cake Candles 
