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Cuckoo in Ukrainian songs is a symbol of a mother mourning her children. Crane is a symbol of sorrow for a native land. Swallow is a symbol of well-being, happiness, marriage consent, spring and nature rebirth. It is also a symbol of motherhood. [10] Nightingale is a symbol of love to song. Stork is a favorite bird of Ukrainians.
Type Symbol Image Notes Flag: Flag of Ukraine [1]: National Flag of Ukraine: Official Coat of arms: Coat of arms of Ukraine [2]: Emblem of Ukraine: Official. The lone emblem featured on it is the tryzub (meaning "trident"), a state sigil of the Kyivan Rus from the 10th century A.D., [3] believed to originally represent the Holy Trinity, possibly adapted from symbolism of a falcon.
Emblem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; Coat of arms of Ukraine; Collar of the President of Ukraine; National colours of Ukraine; Common sunflower; Cossack Mamay; Cossack with musket; Crown of Rus
A rushnyk or rushnik (Ukrainian: рушник [rʊʃˈnɪk] ⓘ, Belarusian: ручнік, ručnik [rut͡ʂˈnʲik] ⓘ, Russian: полотенце ручник [rʊt͡ɕˈnʲik], Rusyn: ручник) is a decorative and ritual cloth. Made of linen or cotton it usually represents woven or embroidered designs, symbols and cryptograms of the ...
The word itself, vytynanky, gained currency in the early twentieth century, but there were many other, regional words that were used too — stryhuntsi, khrestyky or kvity to mention but a few. The vytynanky shapes were of many kinds and represented stylized figures of people, animals and plants.
The lion was featured on the historic coat of arms of the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia (Ruthenia), the Ruthenian Voivodeship and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic. During the revolutions in the Austrian Empire in 1848, it was restored as one of the national symbols of Ukrainians and the Ukrainian national liberation movement.
Crowned Miss Japan this week, Ukrainian-born Carolina Shiino cried with joy, thankful for the recognition of her identity as Japanese. Shiino has lived in Japan since moving here at age 5 and ...
The names and meaning of various symbols and design elements vary from region to region of Ukraine, and even from village to village. Similar symbols can have totally different interpretations in different places. There are several thousand different motifs in Ukrainian folk designs. They can be grouped into several families.