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Marzanna. Poland. Marzanna Mother of Poland: modern imagination of goddess by Marek Hapon. Morana (in Czech, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian), 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 of nature.
At a party to commemorate the annual drowning of Marzanna, Aniela and Maciej get drunk and dance together. 4 "Equality March" (Marsz równości) 34 min:
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.
The group would go from door to door collecting "gifts for the bear" before "drowning" the bear in a nearby stream or pond. This was probably an adaptation of a traditional ceremony to drown a straw figure of Marzanna , the spirit of winter. [ 17 ]
The drowned woman and her husband is a story found in Mediaeval jest-books that entered the fable tradition in the 16th century. It was occasionally included in collections of Aesop's Fables but never became established as such and has no number in the Perry Index.
Devana, Andy Paciorek, 2015.. The first source to mention Devana is the Czech Mater Verborum - a Latin dictionary dating back to the 13th century. The text of the dictionary can be read: "Diana, Latonae et Iouis branch" ("Diana, daughter of Jupiter and Latona") and a Czech gloss: "Devana, Letuicina and Perunova dci" ("Devana, daughter of Letuna and Perun"). [10]
A man who murdered his ex-partner by drowning her in a river has been jailed for life. Vincent Morgan, 47, had a history of domestic abuse against Lisa Welford, 49, and was subject to a court ...
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.