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In fact, Ukrainians were clearly not primitive a thousand years ago or at the time of the Trypil culture, perhaps on the contrary, it was calendar-ritual creativity that was the source from which our ancestors drew inspiration for highly skilled pottery, blacksmithing, writing Easter cards, etc. Christmas carols appeared in the calendar (which was then called Kol) in pagan times and are associated with the day of the winter solstice, which was called the holiday of Kolyada, or korotun. According to one of the legends, on this day the Sun eats the snake Korotun. In the waters of the Dnieper, the all-powerful goddess Kolyada gave birth to a new sun - little Bozhich. Pagans tried to protect the newborn. They chased away Corotun, who wanted to eat the new Sun, and then went from house to house to inform people about the birth of the new Sun.

After that, such dramas unfolded. My father took kutyu - a symbol of honoring ancestors. And with the kutyu, he could first go to the cattle, the prognostic function - to have healthy cattle, for the future harvest. Then he would go out into the yard, in some regions he would put kutyu into his mouth, and in some - with a spoon of kutyu he would go out into the yard and call Frost. But not "grandfather Frost", that Soviet one, but Frost - as an element that has a completely negative connotation: "Frost, Frost, come to my place to eat, and if you don't go now, then don't go ever: no for rye, no for wheat, not for rich arable land." That is, a kind of countermeasure so that this Frost does not freeze anything. And the children at that time, as if they were afraid of that Frost, hid somewhere under the table, and in general, when they hid under the table, they had to "becat" and "mecat" - to imitate the cattle that should be herded next year.

На самом же деле примитивными украинцы тысячу лет назад или во времена Трипольской культуры явно не были, возможно, наоборот, именно календарно-обрядовое творчество и было тем источником, откуда наши Предки черпали вдохновение к высокомастерскому гончарству, кузнечному делу, написанию писанок и тому подобное. Колядки появились еще в календаре (который тогда назывался Колом) в языческое время и связаны с днем зимнего солнцестояния, которое называли праздником Коляды, или коротышки. По одной из легенд, в этот день Солнце съедает змей Коротышка. Всесильная богиня Коляда в днепровских водах рожала новое солнце – маленького Божича. Язычники пытались оградить новорожденного. Они прогоняли Коротана, который стремился съесть новое Солнце, а затем ходили от дома в дом, чтобы известить людей о рождении нового Солнца.