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The culmination of the wires Carnival became her burning effigies. Meet on clothes, and escorted ... How escorted Pancake? Popular holiday Maslenitsa wide.
All Pancake week - the last before Lent Week - full of joy, fun and mischievous festive mood.
Since ancient times this ceremony symbolized a farewell to the harsh winter cold and gentle rosy spring meeting.
Every day of Maslenitsa committed special rituals, revealing the deep essence of the entire Russian people. Their content is generally limited to such things as:
- Maintaining friendly relations between the related families;
- Generous refreshments friends, acquaintances, and all the honest folk pancakes and pies;
- Participation in various Russian amusements and games and so on. D.
But the climax of the Carnival celebration became Sunday. That same day, it carried out the most ambitious, the most cheerful and most interesting ceremonies of farewell to winter. The main symbol of the wires became a ritual burning of the carnival Marena - its stuffed.
In some Russian cities Marena, though not burned and buried. Carnival effigy made of cloth, straw, sticks, and other improvised materials. Going to the so-called pancake train (the course, the participants are becoming willing people - horse and foot, both young and old). It was he who was carrying a stuffed.
Symbolic Moreno, usually installed in a haystack and burned. And while burning an effigy, a sign of farewell and remembrance, the flames throwing pancakes, eggs and other food.
By the way, pancakes - all essential attribute of Maslenitsa. Pancake in Russia embodied the image of the sun. And eating it, people like to energize this heavenly body. Of course, the sun was a symbol of the good, heat and light.
On the same day and spend most of Shrovetide fun.
The most traditional ones, which are widely practiced to this day are games such as:
Icy pole
High wooden pole pre-filled with water and exposed to frost. After the water froze, the very pillar, respectively, acquired the status of "ice."
On top of it I was attached any prize (for example, a bunch of crackers), who could get only one who can get to the top.
Tug of war
In this fun, usually attended by men (although sometimes connect and children, and women). All who wish to have fun and show their strength divided into two teams.
Between them he was driven into the ground a wooden peg, and to refer to the middle of the rope was tied to a red rag. The winner is the team that pull the rope to their side.
Playing in the snow and the ice storm the fortress
This game could take a variety of angles. Quest would be to bring down the snow any object or throw it on the opponent. Also playing in the snow without any particular goal - just to have fun from the process of the game.
Sturm ice fortress assumed prior creation, itself, the fortress itself. Most players have built makeshift shelters made of snow, but also practiced and "siege" of large-scale structures of ice.
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