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Maslenitsa (Belarusian: Масленіца; Russian: Мaсленица; Rusyn: Пущаня; Ukrainian: Масниця), also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual.
Shrovetide is the Christian liturgical period prior to the start of Lent that begins on Shrove Saturday and ends at the close of Shrove Tuesday. [1] [2] The season focuses on examination of conscience and repentance before the Lenten fast. [3] [4] It includes Shrove Saturday, Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday and Shrove Tuesday. [1] [2]
Russian artist Boris Kustodiev's Maslenitsa (1916) Shrove Tuesday, Bear guiding in Poland (1950) The word shrove is a form of the English word shrive, which means to give absolution for someone's sins by way of Confession and doing penance. Thus Shrove Tuesday was named after the custom of Christians to be "shriven" before the start of Lent. [23]
It's Not All Shrovetide for the Cat (Russian: Не всё коту масленица, romanized: Ne Vsyo Kotu Maslenitsa) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1871 and first published in the No. 9, September 1871 issue of Otechestvennye Zapiski. It was premiered on October 7, 1871, in Moscow's Maly Theatre. [1]
Plyaska (Russian folk dance). 1911. Maslenitsa is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday, celebrated during the last week before Great Lent, that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha (Easter).
Sakha Republic in the Russian Far East region Russia: 2008 3.COM The olonkho is an epic performed by the Yakuts consisting of ten to fifteen thousand verses. It describes the cosmological beliefs of the Yakuts, including a creation myth, and the gods and legends of the region's indigenous religion. Modern events and themes are also integrated ...
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The Anglicised term "Rodnovery", and its adjective "Rodnover(s)", have gained widespread usage in English and have been given an entry in the second edition (2019) of the academic Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation. [66] It means "Native Faith" and it is the name used by the majority of the movement's adherents. [67]