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2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

How not to go nuts

The expression "goofy" is rooted in antiquity and means: "to be disgraced, to be in a disadvantageous, uncomfortable position." The fact is that it was not considered decent for a woman to appear with unkempt hair in front of someone outside her, and to rip off her headdress (to leave her naked) was a terrible insult.

Married women completely covered their heads, but before the wedding it was quite possible and even commendable to flaunt long braids.

Girl's headwear almost always left the top of the head open, and the stupid head, attached to the back of the head with strings, was no exception.

There was a tradition of "unleashing the mind" - the first haircut, when a little girl was presented with a skirt and a scarf. It was not necessary to wear it until a certain age, but the girl had already received her first handkerchief from her father's hands.

The handkerchief was the most coveted gift. A guy caring for a girl, a peasant husband returning from a city bazaar - a present in the form of a handkerchief, was a sign of love, care, respect. According to an old belief, a wedding shawl had a special magical power. It consisted of two colors - red (the color of a man) and white (the color of a woman). This combination meant marriage.

The female headdress served as a kind of visiting card: marital status, the estate of the mistress, the wealth of the family, one could find out about all this only by looking at the scarf.

Nowadays, the Russian headscarf has not gone away from the life of a woman. It has become an important part of the wardrobe, a stylish accessory. Moreover, the Russian headscarf has won the world catwalks and the title of a fashion trend. Domestic and foreign stars have acquired Pavlo-Pasad shawls.

Of course, today no one “throws tomatoes” at a simple-haired young lady. But she will definitely note how much the headscarf adorns every woman.

The rattle is a formidable weapon

The first rattles rattled over the cradles (shakes) of Russian babies not for fun. They fought evil spirits! Likhomanki (spirits of diseases), babai, beeches are afraid of rattles. All parents believed in it. And not only in Russia. The first rattles looked like a ball on a handle with peas inside and they rattled in Europe and Asia, Africa and America.

Why exactly balls? The thing is that the ball for many peoples symbolized the good sun, which gives light, warmth, and harvest. It was a strong talisman that protected from evil spirits, because evil spirits cannot stand sunlight. That is why they made round rattles. And they also applied protective patterns - spirals or rosettes, which also mean the sun. The cross is also the oldest solar symbol, a good sign for a rattle.

Rattles were made of birch bark and wood. But the most common ancient Russian rattles are clay ones. At first they were made without a handle, just a ball of clay with peas inside, in the ball there are several holes through which you can thread a string to hang it over the cradle.

Then, in Russia, they began to make more complex rattles, in the form of animals and people. For example, in the village of Khludnevo, where toys have long been made from clay, they came up with a wonderful rattle in the form of an elegant Russian beauty in a bell skirt. This skirt contains polka dots.

And in the Russian North, in Pomorie, they make a complex rattle-shuffle. It is woven from birch bark or made from thin pine sticks or splinters. It turns out many, many small cubes connected into one large cube on the handle, and in each small cube there is a pea.

The whistles are the native "sisters" of rattles - they also drove away evil spirits, since the Bronze Age! The bell also scares away evil spirits with its ringing and attracts good news and good luck to the house!

Our porridge

Do you know how many years mankind has been eating porridge?

In Russian written monuments, this word has been found since the end of the 12th century, however, in archaeological excavations, pots with the remains of porridge are found in the layers of the 9th - 10th centuries. The word "porridge" comes from the Sanskrit word "kasha", which means "crush, rub". And judging by the origin of its name, the dish is even more ancient.

Without traditional Russian porridge on the table, it was impossible to imagine any celebration or holiday. Moreover, a certain ceremonial porridge was necessarily prepared for various significant events. For example, “victorious” porridge was served at victory feasts. Be sure to cook porridge on the occasion of the start of a big business. This is where the expression "make porridge" came from. Porridge in Russia "determined" even the relationship between people. They said about an unreliable and intractable person: "You can't cook porridge with him." When they worked as an artel, they cooked porridge for the whole artel, so for a long time the word “porridge” was synonymous with the word “artel”. They said: "We are in the same mess."

Porridge made from whole or crushed grains of barley was called barley, barley, wheat, thick, glazed, pearl barley. Millet porridge, white, was cooked from millet. The word millet was first mentioned in written documents of the 11th century. Millet porridge was consumed both on weekdays and during a festive feast.

Wheat, made into very fine grains, was used to make semolina. The word "manna" is Old Slavonic and goes back to the Greek word "manna" - food. It was served only to children and was usually prepared with milk.

Rice porridge appeared in the 18th century, when rice was brought to Russia; it was consumed mainly in cities. It entered the diet of the peasants very slowly and was called porridge from Sorochinskiy millet.

Along with cereals made from whole or crushed grains, “flour porridges” were traditional for Russians, ie. flour porridge. They were usually called mukavashi, flour, flour, flour. Some of these cereals also had special names, which reflected the methods of making the porridge, its consistency, the type of flour used for making: bearberry, (bearberry, bearberry), straw (salamat, salamata, salamakha), kulag (malodukha, kisselitsa), peas, brew, thick (thick, thick).

Toloknyakha was prepared from oatmeal, which was a fragrant, fluffy oat flour. The beef was made in a peculiar way: oats in a sack were dipped into the river for a day, then languished in the oven, dried, pounded in mortars and sifted through a sieve. When making porridge, oatmeal was poured with water and rubbed with a whorl so that there were no lumps. Toloknyakha was from the fifteenth century. one of the most common folk dishes.

Solomat is a liquid porridge made from fried rye, barley or wheat flour, boiled with boiling water and steamed in the oven, sometimes with the addition of fat. Solomat is a long-standing food for Russians. It is already mentioned in written sources of the 15th century. Pea is a porridge made from pea flour. Kulaga is a dish made from rye malt - grain sprouted and steamed in the oven and rye flour. After cooking in the oven, a sweetish porridge was obtained. Zavarikha is a porridge made from any flour, poured into boiling water during cooking with continuous stirring. Gustiha is a thick porridge made from rye flour.

KULAGA, recipe: Sort fresh viburnum, rinse and boil. Add sifted rye flour, diluted in a little water, honey or sugar, mix and cook until tender over low heat, stirring occasionally. Kalina can be replaced with fresh raspberries or strawberries, Serve pancakes, bread, fresh milk or kvass separately.

In Dahl's dictionary:

KULAGA salamata; thick, brew; raw malted dough, sometimes with viburnum; steamed malted dough; knead rye flour and malt in equal parts of rye flour and malt in a kettle on boiling water, until the density of the leavened thickened, evaporated in a free spirit, and put in the cold; this is a delicious lean dish. Kulazhka is not a mash, not drunk, eat your fill.

Proverbs and sayings about porridge:

"Porridge is our nurse"

"You can't feed a Russian peasant without porridge"

"Lunch is not for lunch without porridge"

"Shchi and porridge is our food"

"Borscht without porridge is a widower, porridge without borscht is a widow."

The old woman and Pushkin

The old woman from the fairy tale of A. S. Pushkin is not only greedy, but also young.

In The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, the social status of the old woman is constantly changing. And the old man remains a man, but we see everything that happens with his eyes:

What does he see? High tower.

His old woman stands on the porch

In an expensive sable jacket, Brocade kichka on the top, …

Noteworthy is a kika or kichka - an old Russian headdress of married women. Horns were a distinctive feature of the kiki. In these very horns the idea of fertility, procreation was laid. Women, having reached old age, exchanged a horned kick for a headscarf. Thus, Alexander Sergeevich presented in the fairy tale an old woman not only greedy, but also young. The malicious old woman, with her excessive demands, did not allow the fairy tale to come true with a miraculous fulfillment of desires, because her desires were super-fabulous. It was not worth her to aim at the age-related role of clothing and the whole endless sea.

About the museum

The first museum of Slavic mythology - an alternative socio-cultural project, which is based on a private art collection. These are original easel paintings, graphics and works of Russian decorative and applied art based on Slavic history, mythology, epic legends, Russian fairy tales and customs.

We collect, exhibit and popularize the work of contemporary artists who continue the tradition of the national romanticism of V. Vasnetsov, I. Bilibin, N. Roerich and others. For more details on the museum collection and biographies of our masters, see the Museum Collection section.

Museum activities include guided tours, educational programs, themed events and meetings. When conducting master classes, in addition to teaching handicraft skills, we focus on telling visitors about the mythological roots of this or that type of painting and plastics. A special role in this approach is played by a master class on making a talisman doll. Thus, a hand-made product acquires a magical magical meaning.

CONCEPT … WORD BY THE FOUNDER OF THE MUSEUM GENNADY MIKHAILOVICH PAVLOV (VEDOSLAV).

Our project:

Unique. The first and only one of its kind. Well-defined subject matter. The exposition of modern painting is a protective field of the beauty of Primordial Rus, which comes to life on the canvases of the best artists of modern Russia.

Relevant. The XXI century poses an acute question for the Slavs: to be or not to be? If we choose to be, then we turn to our origins, to the archetypes of national self-awareness. In the era of globalization, those peoples who are sensitive to their history, culture, and primordial spirituality become successful.

Endless. The myth is the soul of the people, a storehouse of sacred concepts of honor and conscience, evil and good. The words "Motherland, parents, nature, harmony, lyalka" sound very lively for a Russian person. Behind them are the majestic Slavic Gods-Progenitors - Rod and Rozhanitsy, Makosh and Lada, Svarog and Perun. These are not just personified elements, and not wooden idols. This is a manifestation of the best sides of human nature, a natural way of life, harmonious integrity with cosmic cycles. This is constant development, continuous creativity, new discoveries and achievements!

Tomsk, st. Zagornaya 12.