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Как рудимент древних магических ритуалов, колядки и щедривки призывали богов (языческое "Ой Даждьбоже!", трансформированное в "Ой дай Боже!") дать хозяину (или хозяйке, парню, девушке) доброе здоровье и хозяйственные достатки (в древние времена было аверсом и реверсом одной медали), связанных с хорошим урожаем, благоприятными условиями возделывания земли, доходов в доме (особенно скота). Средством художественных сравнений, эпитетов, метафор превозносится, восхваляется хозяин, члены его семьи, которым желают доброй судьбы, здоровья, любви, добрых браков и т.д.
"Shedryvky" are ritual songs performed on a generous evening, the evening on the eve of the new year. They usually began with the words of greeting: "Generous evening, good evening." In the distant past, this type of song differed from other holiday songs, today it differs in that it is sung in Ukraine and in Ukrainian-speaking villages of the region. At the time when we now celebrate Christmas, once upon a time, even before Christianity, in Ukraine there was a holiday of the winter solstice. It was the time of divination for the coming year; and that is why we still have a whole series of pre-Christian elements in Christmas customs, whose purpose was to call for a good harvest in the following year, wealth and prosperity in the house of the master, lucky catches for the hunter, a wedding for a girl and a happy journey for a young man - a prince's wife or the prince himself. All the natural forces of nature are appeased and called upon not to harm people and livestock.
That is why we have those carolers, carols, kutyu and uzvar and much more. In ancient times, it was believed that the New Sun was born. And this is evidenced by such a carol, which has preserved pre-Christian symbols: "On the Light Tree, two little birds advise us how to establish this world, they dive to the bottom, pull out a stone from there and thus establish the World." And that is why many scholars support this point of view, that they sang hymns that glorify the birth of the New Sun, the birth of the New Year.
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