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    Commons has media related to Festival of Veles. Festival of Veles (Veles' Day) is a holiday in honor of the Slavic god Veles, celebrated by rodnovers in...
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    cosmology Veles in serpentine form is lying in a nest of black wool in the roots of the Tree of the World: 136, 154  and Veles is the shepherd of the dead...
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    of the holiday in connection with the Papaver poppy, which ripens by this time. It is traditionally believed that the two weeks of the Spas festival from...
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  • Slavic Native Faith's calendars and holidays (category Lists of observances)
    etc.). Festival of Veles Slavic Native Faith Slavic calendar Wheel of the Year Heathen holidays "Native faith: The congress of the 'Circle of Pagan Tradition'...
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    The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy...
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    participants compete in such disciplines as combat sports and tug-of-war. Festival of Veles Gieysztor 2006, p. 280-281. Matsʹkiv 2017, p. 169. Korepanova...
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    retaliates to this challenge of the divine order by pursuing Veles, attacking with his lightning bolts from the sky. Veles taunts Perun and flees, transforming...
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    a Festival in Lutheranism, and a Principal Feast in the Anglican Communion. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, because it announces the incarnation of Christ...
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    Nut Feast of the Saviour because, in most places in central Russia, nuts ripened at the time of the year in late August when this festival is celebrated...
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    Apple Feast of the Saviour or Apple Spas (sometimes the Feast of the Saviour on the Hill) is an Eastern Slavic folk name for the Feast of the Transfiguration...
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    Dożynki (category Harvest festivals)
    Slavic harvest festival. In pre-Christian times the feast usually fell on the autumn equinox, in modern times it is usually celebrated on one of the Sundays...
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    Koliada (category Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity)
    a festival or holiday, celebrated at the end of December to honor the sun during the Northern-hemisphere winter solstice. It also involves groups of singers...
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    Radonitsa (category Folk calendar of the East Slavs)
    custom transferred into the Russian Orthodox Church as the festival of Radonitsa, the name of which comes from the Slavic word "radost'", meaning "joy."...
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    Kupala Night (redirect from Eve of Kupala)
    Wreaths were often made of periwinkle, basil, geranium, ferns, roses, blackberries, oak and birch branches, etc. During the festival, the wreath was usually...
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    and much of the older Maslenitsa traditions began to be revived in a modern context. Since 2002, Moscow has staged a yearly Maslenitsa festival next to...
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    Calendar, is the feast day of Saint Nicholas of Myra; it falls within the season of Advent. It is celebrated as a Christian festival with particular regard...
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    beginning with a reading of the Book of Genesis. The last three days of pre-Lent are known as Carnival, Shrovetide, or Fastelavn, a festival ending with Shrove...
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    various food industries. Green Week traditionally takes place at the beginning of the year in the Messe Berlin exhibition halls under the Funkturm and is open...
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    such idols were dedicated to Rod or Veles (according to local old folklore, stone mushrooms are dedicated to Veles). Due to the fact that these idols had...
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    calendar), the Christian feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, a traditional holiday in Romania and Moldova. In the historical region of Moldavia, Sfințișori were...
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    herbs. The Prayer under Midžor Mt. Peak is a festival which has been organized since 2000 in the village of Vrtovac and includes prayer, national dances...
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    Slavic carnival (category Instances of Lang-mk using second unnamed parameter)
    Pust, Poklade, Mesopust, Fašnik. They are traditional Slavic festivals related to the period of carnival. Sirni zagovezni (also called Sinitsi and Sirni pokladi)...
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    Babinden (category Folk calendar of the East Slavs)
    (Bulgarian: Бабинден, Russian: Бабьи каши, Бабий день the Day of the baba or the Day of the midwife) is a traditional Bulgarian feast, celebrated on 8...
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    the Day of Marzanna and that of Mokosh (November 10). Other festivals include the Days of Veles (multiple, in January and February) and the Day of Perun...
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    "bear ceremony," "bear festival," or "bear dance," reflects a shared connection to the natural world and the significance of bears within these societies...
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    name of the underworld, Vyraj, which is presided by the chthonic god Veles. The world of the dead is believed to be separated from the world of the living...
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  • Nemzetközi Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál díjai (English: "Awards of the 4th International Festival of Animated Feature Films"). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál...
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  • Based on the reconstructed myths around the figures of Perun and Veles, some scholars believe that both of these gods are chief deities. They are primarily...
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    In 2008, Teona Strugar Mitevska directed I Am from Titov Veles, screened at over 80 festivals around the world and won nearly 20 international awards....
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  • and raised by Veles, Perun's enemy, Slavic god of the underworld and cattle. The Slavs believed the underworld to be an ever-green world of eternal spring...
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