Round dance - Maslenitsa | Lyrics
- Lyrics
- ROUND DANCE
- Maslenitsa
Oh, Maslenitsa, torticollis, torticollis, torticollis, torticollis, we flogged you well, well, well, well
The grapes are blooming, the grapes are blooming, And the berry, the berry is pouring, and the berry, the berry is pouring
Oh, Maslenitsa, I'm coming to you. I lost the scarlet ribbon, now I can't find it.
The grapes are blooming, the grapes are blooming, And the berry, the berry is pouring, and the berry, the berry is pouring
Oh, Maslenitsa, you're a blast You're a bang, you're a bang, you're a bang We'll see you off even better Even better, even better, even better
The grapes are blooming, the grapes are blooming, And the berry, the berry is pouring, and the berry, the berry is pouring
White-ripe grapes, white-ripe grapes
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Maslenitsa calls and barkers for children and adults
Soon, from February 28 to March 6, 2022, we will celebrate Maslenitsa. This means that we will have a wonderful reason to have a good rest and have fun by taking part in interesting games and competitions.
Short chants for Maslenitsa will lift the spirits of everyone present at the holiday and help create a joyful atmosphere. This page of our website presents the texts of Maslenitsa chants that you can learn with your children.
Calls for the Maslenitsa meeting for children
*** Maslenitsa has arrived, Madam-boyar Maslenitsa! With cheese, butter and pancake, Yes with a ruddy pie!
*** Wide Maslenitsa, We cannot praise you enough! Come visit us in the wide yard, play with the children, ride on the roller coaster!
*** Hey, have fun, get ready, people! Today Maslenitsa is coming to visit! Hurry up to us and call your friends!
*** Have fun, people: Butterfly comes to visit with pies and pancakes, Leading Spring on his arm! We will sing, walk, and welcome Mother Spring! Ride a sleigh, play with blinkers!
*** Happy Maslenitsa we congratulate you, the time has come to enjoy pies. Without pancakes, farewell to winter cannot be enjoyed. We invite you to song, to jokes, to joy!
Texts of short chants for Maslenitsa
Cool Maslenitsa barkers are easy to learn by heart - just read them several times. We offer short texts of chants for Maslenitsa, which even the youngest guests of the holiday can easily remember.
*** Come, honest people, to our show. A mischievous holiday awaits you, to everyone's surprise! Today we have gathered here to say goodbye to winter. We invite everyone, without exception, to the show!
***Get ready, people! Red spring is coming! We need to get rid of the winter and celebrate Maslenitsa together! Get ready, old and young, leave the chambers. There is one week until Lent. We have no time for fun there. So sing, walk, dance for seven days from the heart!
*** Hey, honest people, don’t walk away! Come visit us quickly, we have delicious pancakes! With honey, they are sweet! We celebrate Maslenitsa, we say goodbye to Winter!
*** Come for a walk, for a fun ride! Don't skimp on your smiles, and don't be lazy on your feet!
We'll have a great time, There will be games and fun. Get ready, honest people! Let's say goodbye to winter!
*** We sincerely congratulate you and cordially invite you: Throw away all your worries, Come visit, Directly to our porch To us for Maslenitsa. See for yourself: We’ll treat you to pancakes, crumpets on sour cream, fluffy pies, we’ll wave to February, we’ll say “hello” to March!
*** Hey, you guests, come over! Get some treats! Maslenitsa treats, invites everyone to the holiday! He distributes pancakes to everyone, and is waiting for everyone to visit!
*** Wide Maslenitsa! We boast about you, we go on roller coaster rides, we overeat on pancakes. Hey, Maslenitsa Kuroseika, give us a good ride!
*** Like during Pancake Week Every day we ate pancakes. Both boys and girls gathered for parties: They sang and danced songs, and joyfully welcomed Spring! We greeted spring joyfully and said goodbye to winter for a year. We stood together in a round dance - Spring is coming to visit us!
*** Dear Maslenitsa rides, Our annual guest, On a painted sleigh, On black horses. Maslenitsa lives for seven days. Stay, Maslenitsa, Seven Years.
*** We didn’t spin all week, We waited for Maslenitsa, We greeted them loudly, We called with horns, We expected guests, We met you on the mountain. They sprinkled snow on the mountain, Make it icy! Come, Maslenitsa, dear. Whether, little pea, rolls, we will be happy.
*** Hey, Maslena, come and treat me to pancakes! Yes, dumplings, and butter! Yes, a ruddy roll! We don't care about frost. Maslenitsa-wry neck, We'll see you well!
*** Maslenitsa, Maslenitsa! Thank you for coming! And she brought with her a warm Spring!
*** Play more fun, harmonica, Maslenitsa, don’t be sad! Come, spring, quickly, drive Winter away from us!
*** Maslenitsa-paleleg, Extend at least a little - At least a week, at least a day, At least a day, at least an hour.
*** Hello, Mother Maslenitsa! You brought us pancakes, Bowls full of sour cream, Shangi, pies, bagels! We are glad to praise you for such joys! Have fun, honest people, Spring is knocking at the gate!
Maslenitsa barkers for the holiday
The fun is in full swing... Buffoons and entertainers entertain guests by telling mischievous jokes and jokes. Another of the indispensable attributes of the holiday are calls for Maslenitsa, which invite people to take part in the holiday and taste the treats.
Whatever, your guests won’t be bored! In short Maslenitsa chants, they praise the main character of the holiday, call her funny names and encourage her to stay longer.
*** Eat! Drink! Help yourself! And have more fun! Maslenitsa is at the gates, open your mouth wider!
*** The people are smiling, dancing in a friendly circle. It’s Maslenitsa, Good Maslenitsa!
*** Come, come in for rosy pancakes. Today is Maslena week - Be happy like us!
*** And we were expecting Maslenitsa, We were greeting our dear guest, We were covering the mountain with pancakes, We were pouring butter on top. The mountain is steep like pancakes, the mountain is clear like butter, And they pour snow on the mountain, And our mothers call us home. It’s not good for us to go home, We decided to take a ride down the mountain. Oh, you Maslenitsa-crooked neck, give us a good ride.
*** You, my Maslenitsa, Red braid, blond braid, Sister of thirty brothers, Daughter of three mothers, Come to my board house, have fun with your mind, and enjoy your speech. Come, honest Maslenitsa, Wide noblewoman, On seventy-seven sleighs, On a wide boat To the city to feast!
*** Wide Maslenitsa, We boast about you, We ride in the mountains, We overeat on pancakes! Maslenitsa, Maslenitsa, Pancake baker, Come early, Let's meet you well - With cheese, butter and pancakes, And a ruddy pie.
Barkers for the burning of Maslenitsa
Many modern funny Maslenitsa barkers are not much different from those that were popular in the old days. Often short chants for Maslenitsa are performed on the last day of the holiday, when its climax occurs - the burning of the effigy.
*** And we saw off Maslenitsa, Often, everyone sighed heavily for it! Oh, Maslenitsa, come back, reach out to the red summer!
*** Oh, Maslenitsa, reach out and grab onto the white birch tree! They said Maslenitsa is seven years old, and our Maslenitsa has seven days! Oh, Maslenitsa, you liar! She deceived me, cheated her, didn’t let her have fun!
*** Like during Pancake week, pancakes were flying out of the oven! From the heat, from the heat, from the oven, Everything is rosy, hot! Maslenitsa, treat! Serve everyone some pancakes. In the heat of the moment, take it apart! Don't forget to praise.
*** Maslenitsa Pancake Eater Fed him until lunch. And herself - behind the fence, For the whole day, for the whole day. She licked the cheese and butter, and then went out.
*** As a farewell, all the people will set Maslenitsa on fire. Warm up quickly, so that we can live more fun!
Maslenitsa ditties: 70 best
Website “Mom can do anything!” I have collected the most interesting poems and ditties for Maslenitsa for children and adults. Chastushki are traditionally present at festivities dedicated to farewell to winter. They are as much a symbol of the holiday as pancakes and a scarecrow. We offer you a selection of 70 ditties.
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Wide Maslenitsa, We boast about you, We ride in the mountains, We overeat on pancakes!
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She served pancakes with caviar and Milok something evil to celebrate Maslenitsa and had to supply cognac
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I ate the fifth pancake, my skirt burst. I'll go sew up my skirt so I can eat pancakes again.
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Like on the square in the village of Look, a neighbor on a broom, soared higher than the hut, Apparently the devil saw there
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The Martians have arrived. We were satisfied. Their plates are not empty, but full of pancakes.
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Hey, friend, don't be bored, eat a pancake, drink tea! If you want more - I don’t mind, eat it all!
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Get ready, people, to see off the winter. Get ready, people, to invoke Spring.
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I ate, I ate pancakes, I didn’t spare the caviar, I didn’t spare the butter, lard, And I also became fatter!
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Eat! Drink! Help yourself! And have more fun! Maslenitsa is at the gates! Open your mouth wider!
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I made a basin of dough and will treat you to pancakes. Praise me, I will bake a mountain for you!
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Oh, on Maslenitsa again my husband demands pancakes! I said: “Bake it yourself!” Or buy me Tefal!
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The people smile, they dance in a friendly circle. It’s Maslenitsa, Good Maslenitsa!
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Early in the morning the son-in-law runs to please his mother-in-law, invites her into the house, and treats her to wine there.
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I’ll hurry to the party, I’ll just comb my curls, I’ll put on a brand new outfit, and the devil won’t be my brother.
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My son-in-law came running for a treat without an invitation, but he also made a mistake in strength, he didn’t finish all the pancakes.
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I'm coming to eat on Maslenitsa, people! I'll eat everything that's on the platter, It's going through my ears!
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Come, come in for rosy pancakes. Today is Maslena week - Be happy like us!
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Like during Pancake Week Everyone was surprised: Russian pancakes have become more popular than meatballs!
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Bake, godfather, pancakes, so that they are fluffy. Today is Maslen week - You can eat too much.
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For my dear son-in-law, I won’t spare pancakes, Come visit us again, Feel your mother-in-law’s love.
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Play more cheerfully, harmonica, Maslenitsa, don’t be sad! Come, spring, quickly, drive Winter away from us!
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If you want to be healthy, eat a pancake with milk, if you want to be cheerful, then with a pickled cucumber!
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Spring is not spring, But winter is gone. I baked pancakes, But you refused.
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Girls ride on sleighs from high slides, But boys are gluttons, and toss their bellies.
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My little one got the hang of it and decided to bake pancakes himself. He spilled milk on the floor. He splashed everything around him.
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We composed ditties, We tried very hard. We just ask that you don’t be offended by us.
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We finish singing ditties until another evening. You sit until the morning, when there is nothing to do.
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Girls, the oil can is coming! Who will take us for a ride? In Petrushka's yard, Sivka disappears.
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I have a friend Vadim, he loves a girl! At night on Maslenitsa they will never sleep!
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Maslenitsa - white-legged, Stay with us a little, For a week, for a day, For a single hour!
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And the mother-in-law has a problem, there is not a pancake left. This means that there is happiness in the world - Her son-in-law Petya will live.
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Come to me in the evening And our password is Dispatcher You will call this word You will immediately unlock the doors
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A children's choir runs into every yard throughout the village. They bring old things from houses, all sorts of rags. They carry everything outside the fence, making a big fire. It’s Maslenitsa, Glorious Maslenitsa!
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Have fun, honest people, filling your belly. This is Maslenitsa, Maslenitsa is festive!
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While eating the cheesecakes to their heart's content, the girls sing ditties. Every person around is dancing, And his soul rejoices.
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The pans rattled, the pancakes began to brown, the good glasses were filled to the brim with wine and vodka.
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As a farewell, all the people will set Maslenitsa on fire. Warm up quickly, so that we can live more fun!
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Maslenitsa has come to us, This means there will be pancakes. To be love and to be kind - Give everyone a pancake!
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They burned a scarecrow on a hill. We doused the ashes with bleach so that it would not be reborn and so that spring would appear.
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We will cover the mask drawn with a pancake decorously. Let it burn completely, Everyone is tired of winter.
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For the fire of competition, creative success. Now the moment of farewell has come, Our speech will be brief. We say: “Goodbye, Happy new meetings!”
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We start singing ditties, Please don’t laugh: There are a lot of people here, We might get confused!
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On Monday, with a clear dawn, everyone is riding on the slide, chewing all kinds of food, singing songs loudly.
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I'm ready for Maslenu to eat 50 pancakes. I’ll snack on them and try to lose weight.
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Like during Shrovetide week, pancakes flew from the table, and cheese, and cottage cheese - They all flew under the threshold!
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Bake, godfather, pancakes, so that they are fluffy. Today is Maslen week - You can eat too much.
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My friend and I were walking, we covered a mountain with cheese, we covered it all with pancakes, we poured butter on top!
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My dear has a sweet look, That his face shines like a pancake. with this same damn face. Yes, I should anoint the porch.
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In trials, the boys are steadfast, And in the cooking, the girls are lively - They bake sweet pancakes, and serve treats.
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Grandma kneaded the dough, but forgot to put in the eggs. He is very surprised - the pancakes don’t turn out.
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Oh, I ate pancakes of exorbitant thickness. As soon as you put them in your mouth, your nose will fall into the hole.
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Pancake with jam, pancake with caviar! With spring water! The Sun Festival has come to us! It feels so good!
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Let the spring-red maiden frolic with us too. Thank you all for your attention, for your enthusiasm, fun, laughter.
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Under the pancakes with caviar, I’ll pour Egorka’s wine. He'll drink a glass of milk and be as quiet as a heifer.
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We didn’t break the holiday during Shrovetide Week, All our friends danced, sang, We ate pancakes!
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The girls are happy, the guys too, Let's kiss everyone as much as we can. We will suppress the resistance of the Winter Cold, without a doubt.
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We are bored at the holiday - They only serve tea. To make the walk more fun, pour “Bitter” into a glass.
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We had fist fights on Maslenitsa, I defeated my husband, After all, I have a frying pan!
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We finish singing ditties until another evening. You sit until the morning, when there is nothing to do.
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I baked pancakes with baked goods, but it turned out sideways. The son-in-law boiled like a kettle: “Without the pancake, I would have eaten the cheese!”
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We will sing ditties, How we wait for Maslenitsa, How we yearn for pancakes And for warm spring days.
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They drove the diva around the yard, Oh, she’s stately and beautiful. It’s a pity for me to burn such a thing, but my wife won’t let me sleep.
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We start singing ditties, Please don’t laugh: There are a lot of people here, We might get confused!
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I sang ditties for you, I composed them as best I could. Well, whoever doesn’t understand them, let him shut my mouth with a pancake.
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My mother-in-law forced me: Eat a mushroom pancake, But I haven’t lived long yet, I’m not ready to die!
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I would like caviar from a bowl. Eat with a tablespoon. That would be great - but too expensive.
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With the coming of Sunday, we ask everyone for forgiveness. Our good aspirations are admirable.
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They wrapped caviar in a pancake - Oh, I'll die laughing! There are exactly five eggs there - you can count them.
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For his beloved, for a scarf, the guy climbs onto the pole. And the pole is doused with water, That’s why it’s icy.
SYCAMORE
Bless, mother, cut the veil! And the curly green sycamore! Say goodbye to the weather, see off the winter! And the curly green sycamore! Say goodbye to the winter, call the summer! And the curly green sycamore! Come, it's clear! Come, red one! And the curly green sycamore! Viasna-red, what did you come with? And the curly green sycamore! What did you come with, what did you arrive with? And the curly green sycamore! On the plow, on the harrow. And the curly green sycamore! Ferment, spring, thick life! And the curly green sycamore! The life is thick and spiky! And the curly green sycamore! So that grain is as big as a bucket, straw is as big as a bucket! And the curly green sycamore! To bake pies with FAQ! And the curly green sycamore! Bake pies, brew beer! And the curly green sycamore! Let's brew some beer, we're getting a ripple of sunshine, and the green curly sycamore! They want us to marry, give away the girls! And the curly green sycamore! Water is spilling in the meadow. And the curly green sycamore! The veil is in full bloom outside! And the curly green sycamore!
Child of Frost
There are many legends about the origin of this extraordinary Maslenitsa holiday. According to one of them, the father of Maslenitsa was Frost. According to this belief, a frozen, tired man who had lost his way in the forest noticed Maslenitsa hidden among the snowdrifts. The traveler asked her for help. He asked only for a little light, warmth and fun for his tired, sad people. And Maslenitsa agreed to help people. However, so that people would believe her, she decided to change her image. From a small, fragile, frightened girl, she turned into a luxurious, beautiful, curvy woman with rosy cheeks. beautiful speech in a bright robe and with red beads. Maslenitsa came to the village on horseback with her head held high. People happily greeted the long-awaited guest and danced around her with joy, singing cheerful songs. She gave the people happiness and fun, made them forget all their worries and misfortunes for at least a week and spin in a festive round dance around the fire.
Bins of the Russian Soul Issue 3 Ritual songs of Maslenitsa week
The sun is shining brighter, the days are getting longer, which means Maslenitsa will come soon. This is the only holiday of the agricultural calendar that experienced very little influence from the Orthodox Church, which has retained its significance in modern culture. The actions performed on Maslenitsa intertwine beliefs and customs associated with the cult of ancestors and the commemoration of deceased parents; with honoring the newlyweds and condemning those who did not marry; with agricultural magic aimed at ensuring the future harvest; with the end of the calendar year, which in ancient times began in the spring. Finally, Maslenitsa is general fun, various entertainments and competitions. 1. OH YOU WIDE STREET (village Kuzmichi, Smolensk region) 2. PANCAKES (Rechensky farmstead, Volgograd region) 3. AND WE WERE WAITING FOR MASLENITSA (village Dubrovka, Smolensk region) 4. MASLENITSA-KRIVOSHEYKA (village Linovo, Sumy region. ) 5. THE GIRLS WALKED AWAY TO MASLENITSA (the village of Nekrasovskaya, Krasnodar Territory) 6. SUGAR APPLE (the village of Begoshcha, Kursk region) 7. ON THE OTHER SIDE I FLY AS A QUAIL (the village of Plekhovo, Kursk region) 8. YES I SUFFERED TO MASLENIA (the village of Foshchevatovo Belgorod region) 9. ALLOW IT, LET I SING (Village Suzemka, Bryansk Region) 10. DITS FOR A FIGHT, ACCOMPANIED BY HARMONY KHOROMKA (village Zverevo, Vologda Region) 11. AND WE WENT TO MASLENITSA (village Kislovo, Pskov Region. ) 12. AT THE SEA A DUCK WAS BATHING (Neglyubka village, Gomel region) The media magazine uses sound recordings of musicologists and folklorists: Vyacheslav Shchurov, Anatoly Mekhnetsov, Nina Savelyeva, Ekaterina Dorokhova, Anatoly Ivanov, Veronica Sigina. Maslenitsa.
Maslenitsa came to us from our ancient Slavic pagan past as a multi-day holiday of “farewell to winter.” Thus, Maslenitsa divided its two main seasons in the Slavic folk calendar - winter and spring. This holiday celebrated the transition to spring agricultural work. Later, the Christian Church included Maslenitsa among its holidays that precede Lent.
It is believed that Maslenitsa was originally associated with the day of the spring solstice, but with the adoption of Christianity it began to precede Lent and depend on its timing.
According to its custom, the church “appointed” its own holiday in place of the pagan holiday, specially shifting the boundaries of Lent for this purpose. After this, Maslenitsa was actually perceived by the Christian church as a religious holiday and received the name Cheese or Cheese Week, but this did not change its inner essence.
Maslenitsa is celebrated in the last week before Lent, seven weeks before Easter. The main attribute of Maslenitsa are pancakes and folk festivities. Maslenitsa is a cheerful farewell to winter, illuminated by the joyful anticipation of imminent warmth and spring renewal of nature.
For Russians, Maslenitsa began on Sunday a week before Lent, i.e. for the so-called meat fast, when it was the last time it was allowed to eat meat. On this day, small family feasts were usually held, for example, the father-in-law invited the son-in-law to “finish the ram.” In some places they lit fires, explaining to the children that they supposedly “burn meat” in them. Actually, the “meeting” of Maslenitsa was not celebrated everywhere: children and youth went out to the ski slopes with pancakes to “welcome Maslenitsa”, had fun, and rode down the mountains.
The main food for Maslenitsa was pancakes (in addition to dairy products and fish). The first pancake was usually intended for the dead: it was placed on a shrine or dormer window - “for parental souls,” and sometimes it was given to the poor also for “remembrance of the soul.” Pancakes, as well as household utensils used for their preparation (brush, frying pan, etc.) were given to the Maslenitsa scarecrow. They, as a symbol of savory food, were destroyed in the fire during Maslenitsa. Pancakes, as the most important attribute of Maslenitsa festivities, were mentioned more than once in songs, for example: “Oh, we celebrated Maslenitsa, We covered the mountain with pancakes...”
A significant part of the customs at Maslyanitsa was related to the theme of family and marriage relations (see the issue “Northern Russian Wedding”). During this period, newlyweds who got married during the past year were honored. The love-marriage theme is also reflected in specific Maslenitsa customs dedicated to the punishment of boys and girls who did not get married during the past year (who did not fulfill their life purpose).
Similar rituals became widespread in Ukraine and in Slavic Catholic traditions.
Among the various Maslenitsa customs, a prominent place is occupied by rituals of the agricultural and economic cycle and, in particular, magical actions aimed at enhancing the growth of cultivated plants. For example, in order for flax and hemp to grow “long” (tall), in Russia women rode down the mountains, trying to go as far as possible, and also fought, sang loudly, etc. In Ukraine and Belarus, women had fun and walked on Maslenitsa Thursday (called Vlasiy and Volosiy), believing that this will make the livestock on the farm better managed (cf. Vlasiy, Veles).
The most important day of Maslenitsa week was Sunday - the ritual before the start of Lent. In Russia, this day was called Forgiveness Sunday, when close people asked each other for forgiveness for all the insults and troubles caused to them; in the evenings it was customary to visit cemeteries and “say goodbye” to the dead.
The main episode of the last day was the “farewell to Maslenitsa,” often accompanied by the lighting of bonfires. In Russia, for this day, they made a scarecrow of Maslenitsa from straw or rags, usually dressed it in women's clothing, carried it through the entire village, sometimes placing the scarecrow on a wheel stuck on top of a pole; leaving the village, the scarecrow was either drowned in an ice hole, burned, or simply torn into pieces. The straw left over from the scarecrow was scattered across the fields in order to ensure a good harvest and give fertility to the land. The ritual funeral of Maslenitsa was always accompanied by processions of mummers, carnivals, loud laughter, calls for Spring and demonstrative denigration of Maslenitsa in special couplets. In these songs, Maslenitsa is called (in connection with Lent, which comes immediately after the abundant feasts of Maslenitsa week) “deceiver,” “eater,” “pancake eater,” and other offensive nicknames.
Sometimes, instead of a doll, a living “Maslenitsa” was carried around the village: a smartly dressed girl or woman, sometimes even an old woman or an old man. Then, amid shouts and hoots, they were taken out of the village and dropped there or dumped in the snow (“held Maslenitsa”).
Where Maslenitsa scarecrows were not made, the ritual of “farewell to Maslenitsa” consisted mainly of lighting communal bonfires on a hill behind the village or near the river. In addition to firewood, they threw all sorts of old things into the fires - bast shoes, harrows, purses, brooms, barrels and other unnecessary things, previously collected by children throughout the village, and sometimes stolen specifically for this. Sometimes they burned a wheel in a fire, a symbol of the sun associated with the approaching spring; it was often put on a pole stuck in the middle of the fire.
In the central regions of Russia, “farewell to Maslenitsa” was accompanied by the removal of fast food, symbolizing Maslenitsa, from the cultural space. Therefore, in bonfires they actually sometimes burned the remains of pancakes and butter, and poured milk into it, but more often they simply told the children that all the quick dishes were burned in the bonfire (for example: “the milk burned and flew to Rostov,” etc.). Some customs were addressed to children and were supposed to frighten them and force them to obey: in the Nizhny Novgorod region, on the last Sunday of Maslenitsa week, a pole was installed in the center of the village, onto which a man with a broom climbed and, pretending to beat someone, shouted: “Don’t ask.” milk, pancakes, scrambled eggs.”
Farewell to Maslenitsa ended on the first day of Lent - Clean Monday, which was considered a day of cleansing from sin and fasting food. Men usually “rinsed their teeth”, i.e. they drank vodka in abundance, supposedly in order to rinse the remnants of the meager food out of their mouths; in some places, fist fights, etc. were organized to “shake out the pancakes.” On Clean Monday they always washed in the bathhouse, and women washed the dishes and “steamed” dairy utensils, cleaning them from fat and remnants of the milk.
Other customs and entertainments of Maslenitsa week included mummers (in Russia, mummers accompanied the stuffed Maslenitsa), driving a “goat” or “goat” (eastern Ukraine), fist fights and ball games (sometimes very cruel and ending in mutilation), cock and goose fights , swings, carousels, youth parties, etc.
Rituals and customs of celebrating Maslenitsa in Belarus.
In ancient times, this holiday consisted of various ritual actions, which then turned into traditional folk customs and rituals. One of these rites was the “Tsyagats kalodu” rite, in which married women from the entire village took part. The festivities took place at night, women walked around the village singing, shouting, and hooting with a stump of a tree (block). If they met a man on the road, especially an unmarried one, they threw a rope over him and forced him to pull the log, while they themselves clung to it, h
As a rule, participants in the procession dressed in carnival costumes of “men,” “elders,” and “gypsies.” A (male) musician joined them. Entering the house, they made noise and rowdy until they received a ransom from the owners. Having walked around the entire village, the mummers went to someone’s spacious hut and walked there all night, singing and dancing. When a man wanted to get rid of the deck quickly, he paid the women a ransom.
Elderly people, relatives, godfathers, and matchmakers went to visit each other this week in decorated carts. The children had their own entertainment: sledding. Young people gathered when it was getting dark outside: they sang and danced.
On the last, Sunday, day of Maslenitsa, relatives went to visit each other, and the son-in-law and his wife came to the mother-in-law for pancakes. In the evening, the entire family had to have dinner together, since Lent began on Monday.
That evening, an extremely interesting and solemn ceremony was held in many places in Belarus. After dinner the owner sat down in a stern and pious mood. His brothers and sons came up to him in turn, after the woman, bowed to the ground and said: “Grant, father’s relatives, what kind of sagrash(s) will be in front of you with your right hand and tongue.” After listening to everyone, the owner, in turn, bowed to the ground to the entire family, thus asking forgiveness for all sins and mistakes.
To say goodbye to Maslenitsa, they usually burned a stuffed animal - a straw woman or a man. The ashes were scattered across the field for greater yield. Literature: Calendar customs and rituals in foreign European countries: Spring holidays. M., 1977 Sokolova V.K. Spring-summer calendar rituals of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. M., 1979 https://cloud.mail.ru/public/N3uV/ksz9uzqEV
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