Video: Slavic holidays. Kolyada
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“Once Kolyada was not perceived as a mummer. Kolyada was a deity, and one of the most influential. They called Kolyada, called me. New Year's days were dedicated to Kolyada, games were organized in her honor, which were later performed on Christmastide. The last patriarchal ban on the worship of Kolyada was issued on December 24, 1684. It is believed that Kolyada was recognized by the Slavs as a deity of fun, that is why they called him, and the merry gangs of youth called him on New Year's festivities."
A. Strizhev "National Calendar"
Kolyada is a baby sun, in Slavic mythology - the embodiment of the New Year's cycle, as well as a character of the holidays, similar to Ovsen.
Kolyada was celebrated on Christmastide from December 25 (the sun turns to spring) to January 5-6.
The Slavs celebrate Kolyada when the day has arrived, and the winter sun begins to flare up. Before the festival, the magician howls like a wolf (prophetic howl), driving away evil spirits. At the end of the conception, a brother with an intoxicated drink is offered to everyone, and the obavnik (who reads praises and sentences at ceremonies during the holidays) exclaims:
“Oat tree, where are you going? Bridge bridges!
Whom to ride? Kolyada sovereign!
What should he ride?
On a sunny pig!
How to drive?
Piglet!"
On New Year's Eve, the children were going to carol under the windows of rich peasants, dignified the owner in songs, repeated the name of Kolyada and asked for money. Holy games and fortune-telling are the remnants of this festival of the ancients. The rituals have survived among the people and have recently become more and more popular. "Carols" dress up in clothes, depict animals, devils, with music, with sacks in which they collect food, walk the streets, sing carols. Kolyada is a cheerful, welcome deity.
Eating ceremonial cookies in the form of cows (loaf, bagels), they commemorate Tura. Instead of a sacrificial lamb, cookies are eaten in the form of a ram's head (bagels, pretzels). You should definitely try uzvar and kutya. The holiday ends with merrymaking. It is imperative to roll the burning wheel up the hill with the words: "Roll up the hill, return with the spring."
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