Day of Father Frost and the Snow Maiden (30/01)

But what's wrong with me: bliss or death? What delight! What feelings of languor! O Mother Spring, thank you for your joy, For the sweet gift of love! What a lie The languishing one flows in me! Oh Lel, Your enchanting songs are in your ears, There is fire in the eyes... and in the heart... and in the blood There is fire in everything. I love and melt, I melt From sweet feelings of love! Goodbye everyone Girlfriends, goodbye, groom! Oh honey, The Snow Maiden's last look to you. A.N. Ostrovsky «Snow Maiden»

Frost and Snow Maiden Day – is an ancient pagan holiday. These days, fairy tales and legends about Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden are usually told.

People remembered how the Snow Maiden, at the whim of the god of love Lel, fell in love with a person and therefore, with the arrival of Spring, did not fly to the North. But as soon as the «-bright ray of sun cuts through the morning fog and falls on the Snow Maiden», it melts, turning into a light cloud of steam, and flies away.

On this day, the Slavs revered Perun’s opponent — Frost — and the hypostasis of Veles. We can say that Frost — is the winter hypostasis of Veles, just like Yar (son of Veles and Diva) — is the spring hypostasis.

Moroz was married to the Snow Queen, daughter of Mara and Koshchei. Frost and the Snow Queen had a beautiful daughter — Snow Maiden.

The Day of Father Frost and the Snow Maiden was a symbolic end of winter, followed by the wide and generous Maslenitsa.



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