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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 ...
The festival was compared to an Irish version of Woodstock [2] [3] or Glastonbury. [4] Though successful, violence at the 1983 event and the unrelated drowning deaths of eight festival goers that year led to the event being cancelled after 1983. Attempts were made to revive the festival in 2003 and 2016.
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.
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Jan Paweł Adamczewski, a nobleman who owns half of the village of Adamczycha, is determined to become the most famous Jan Paweł (a reference to Pope John Paul II) in Polish history. He receives a letter inviting him to a territorial assembly ( sejmik ), where he plans to sabotage the proposed tax increases by his enemy, Andrzej, who owns the ...
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The Spiritual Meadow (also known as the Pratum spirituale, Leimonarion Λειμωνάριον, or New Paradise) is a Greek book by John Moschus (d. 619 or 634) written in the late sixth to early seventh century. The text is composed of anecdotes from Palestinian and Egyptian monasteries from the travels of John during his travels with ...
Throughout Sherman's March to the Sea, thousands of people escaping slavery attached themselves to the Union army's various infantry columns.Most eventually turned back, but those that remained were looked on as "a growing encumbrance" as the army approached Savannah in December 1864. [1]