Komoeditsa

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

Shrovetide - Komoeditsa! Slavic Komoeditsa is celebrated a week before the spring equinox and another week after it. This year, the vernal equinox is March 20. From this day on, the solar time becomes longer, and the sun becomes young Yarila and drives Winter-Marena away.

Shrovetide is not a Vedic holiday - this holiday was introduced by the clergy in the 16th century to oust the great solar holiday of the meeting of spring (the beginning of the astronomical spring) from the popular consciousness.

"Cheese" or "meat-eating" week (its popular name is Maslenitsa), introduced by the church to replace the hitherto traditional celebration of Komoeditsa, is one of the elements of the struggle between Christianity and paganism (with religious competitors).

Maslenitsa (Maslenitsa week) is a Christian Lenten holiday of preparation for Great Lent, on which, after the Sunday of the "meat conspiracy", it is forbidden to eat meat, but fish, dairy products and butter are still allowed; hence, in the 16th century, shortly after the introduction by the churchmen of the "cheese week" ("meat-and-mouth week"), its popular name appeared - Maslenitsa.

Dates of Maslenitsa celebration are "mobile", because are rigidly connected with the "moving" dates of Easter and the 7-week Lent preceding it, determined by the lunar calendar - this is the last week before Lent.

The ancient Vedic edible symbols of the sun, which are certainly used in the celebration of Shrovetide, are pancakes and cheesecakes, as well as round bagels.

On the last day of Maslenitsa, “Forgiven Sunday,” a straw effigy of the annoying Winter (Madder) is burned, and not Maslenitsa, as many mistakenly believe.

In Catholicism, the church holiday of Maslenitsa is called carnival.

Komoeditsa, the great sunny holiday of our ancient Slavic ancestors, always remains in its place - the day of the vernal equinox!

The first pancake is coma, the second pancake - to acquaintances, the third pancake - to distant relatives, and the fourth - to me!

Well, let's take a look at who the Comas are, and why nowhere, not in fairy tales, not in language, or in any other folklore and research sources, there is no connection between the Coma and the bear. The thing is that they are actually not connected in any way, except that they wake up in the spring. The bear's real name is Ber.

And he really wakes up around Shrovetide. Ber is not just a bear like an animal, but also the spirit of the Beast - the Master of the Forest, hence his connection with Veles. Ber is the owner of the forest, its protector and manager, as one of the incarnations of Veles.

Lump is the SPIRIT OF THE TREE living below in the thickening of the trunk, therefore the bottom of the trunk is called KOMEL. And the tree was cut down under the KOMEL, that is, they took part of the tree to the Koma. The spirits of the trees also wake up at this time, and that's the first pancake for them !!! The first pancakes were carried into the forest and placed on stumps, that is, in the place where Kom lives. Agree, carrying a pancake to a den where a hungry Beast is about to wake up is far from safe business:) And as a rule, people devastated all known dens by the spring.

Now further about Bere. He wakes up with Komami, that is, the Master of the Forest comes into his own, and this is where some clarification is needed.

What do spirits eat? Of course by force (energy) spirit.

When a ritual pancake is baked, it is associated with the Sun, and the hostess puts her strength (energy) and her spirit into it. Putting a pancake on a stump To whom the Force is dedicated. And the pancake itself is flesh? This flesh is dedicated to Beru, the owner of the forest! But not so that he ate it himself (a bear, and even a hungry guest near the village, is very undesirable), but so that he, as the OWNER, would distribute it among his most needy wards. Who in the family did they bring everything they got? Of course, the main thing in the family is the owner, and he has already distributed who needs it. Here is the same analogy. They gave it to the Master of the Forest, and he sent the hungry bird to the pancake, or a mouse, or someone else suffering from hunger.

Thus, one action contains three main points: 1. We give strength to the awakening Lumps, 2. We honor the Master of the Forest, Beru, 3. We feed local animals and birds, which, as a rule, have eaten up all the food in the forest by spring.