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Традиция празднования Рождества сохранилась несмотря на все советские запреты и гонения, мы переходим к мировому обычаю праздновать Рождество. Мы сохраняем эту традицию, и она будет дальше жить. Станьте частью Общественное Культура: напишите нам интересные события культурной жизни вашего города или поселка. Отправляйте свои фото, видео и новости и мы опубликуем их на диджитал-платформах Общественного. Пишите нам по почте: culture@suspilne.media. Ваши истории важны для нас!
In addition, in pre-Christian times, such events required a certain sacrifice. In ancient times, when human sacrifices had already been abandoned, it was necessary to sacrifice what was valuable to God. And cattle were valuable at that time. And thus we proceed to the rite of "driving the goat". That is, cattle were sacrificed, which was then replaced by baking cookies in the form of Christmas cattle. Why in ancient times carolers were associated with the afterlife At this time, the border between the worlds becomes so thin that there is a transition between them. It is also connected with honoring the dead. On the one hand, the dead were treated with tremendous respect and honor, as if they welcomed this transition. On the other hand, it is a little scary. We had to somehow protect ourselves from them.
In Western Ukrainian carols, there is an original motif of the creation of the world by demiurge birds — when doves descend to the bottom of the sea for the sand from which the earth will emerge (for example, the carol "Oh, how it was from the offspring of the world"). An old song of the Carpathian Slavs sings:
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