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Not everyone thinks about the fact that spring comes every year and comes only because in different remote villages stubborn women burn an effigy of winter every year, chasing away the cold and snowstorms and helping spring come.
And what would we do if it weren't for them?!
Artyom and I accidentally found out that Vera and her friend Tatiana are going to burn the avatar of winter tonight. We went to participate and create the effect of a crowd around a campfire.
At the same time, they gave us tea, pancakes, and sent us home.
When I was preparing this video, I was filled with all the strangeness and incomprehensibility of what was happening around me. I imagined if someone who is not familiar with Slavic traditions would watch the video.
And this was our holiday week - Maslenitsa.
All week you have to bake and eat pancakes, have fun, visit and have fun on the street. And at the end of the week, the avatar of Winter is burned - a scarecrow depicting winter in female form. If this is not done, then spring will probably not come. No one knows for sure, because they didn't check what would happen if the effigy wasn't burned. Surely someone will burn the winter on Maslenitsa.
And then the Great Lent begins, which will last until Easter itself.
Maslenitsa is a pagan holiday. And Lent and Easter are Christian. But the same people celebrate them with all their might and with all their hearts.
That's great!
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