Wide Maslenitsa

This song is devoted to the ancient Slavic pagan holiday, called Maslenitca or “Kamaedica». This holiday is celebrated from 22 to 24 March and nowadays it is linked with spring equinox and symbolized the Life’s light powers’ victory at the Death’s powers. The ancient forest’s keeper is Veles, like a bear, awake after winter hibernation. People celebrate Maslenitca gaily and energetically: different games and fisticuffs are hold, round like sun blinys are cooked and eaten. The holiday’s culmination is the ice fortress’s storm and the burning of Marena death God’s scarecrow, that symbolized a winter.












