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Marzanna. Poland. Marzanna Mother of Poland: modern imagination of goddess by Marek Hapon. Morana (in Czech, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian), Mora (in Bulgarian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), or Marzanna (in Polish) is a pagan Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth ...
At a party to commemorate the annual drowning of Marzanna ... "There was a high probability that the mocking series about the Polish nobility would be such a festival ...
The Marzanna ritual represents the end of the dark days of winter, the victory over death, and the welcoming of the spring rebirth. Marzanna is a Slavic goddess of death, associated with winter. The rite involves burning a female straw effigy or drowning it in a river, or both.
This was probably an adaptation of a traditional ceremony to drown a straw figure of Marzanna, the spirit of winter. [17] The "bears" were often invited in as they were believed to ensure that there would be a good harvest, reflecting a very ancient belief in the power of the bear to prevent evil, encourage crop growth and cure diseases.
Drowning of Marzanna; The Americas ... United States, boatyard employees and sailboat owners celebrate the spring equinox with the "Burning of the Socks" festival ...
The 2024 Jivitputrika tragedy refers to the drowning of at least 46 people, most of whom were children, in rivers and bodies of water that had flooded with ongoing torrential rainfall on 26 September 2024.
The beliefs of the Native Polish Church are on one hand based on the concept of henotheism, and a mixture of pantheism (or even panentheism) and polytheism on the other – i.e. the belief that fate is decided by a cosmic force known as the Highest God (identified by many Polish Native Church rodnovers as the Multiverse), whose various aspects (incarnations) are manifested in the form of other ...
Rusalkas, a type of minor goddesses, represented by Franciszek Siedlecki. In Slavic paganism there are a variety of female tutelary spirits associated with water. They have been compared to the Greek Nymphs, [1] and they may be either white (beneficent) or black (maleficent). [2]