*** Disclaimer: ** The article is filled with all sorts of well-known and replicated data, which may have nothing to do with reality.
The author's reference to Asgard, Omsk and other fictional place names can only be discussed after reading the author's previous articles about them.
All thoughts of the author on the theme of Maslenitsa, set out in a series of articles about her, is a personal opinion of the author, not claiming absolute truth in the last instance. *
Shrove Tuesday began. Almost everyone without exception will celebrate it and bake pancakes.
But what do we know about the carnival? I am sure that most people know about this holiday as much as the average Omsk about their city and its history.
I'll try to tell you about this interesting holiday and from where it went. But before that, let's see what this holiday is like today. And gradually moving into the depths of history to the roots of the birth of this holiday and to its historical homeland ~ Omsk ~ ~ Asgard ~ Siberia.
Folk Maslennitsa coincides in time with the church Cheese Week and lasts a week starting on Monday. Cheese seed is not a holiday, unlike Maslenitsa. During this time the liturgy is being prepared for the Great Lent. Interestingly, Maslennitsa is also a spicy preparation for abstinence during Lent. The date of the Carnival celebration varies from year to year depending on the timing of the celebration of Easter.
This post had to be written The point is that at the dawn of the Shrovetide it began to be celebrated from Sunday (from Nedely, from "no deeds") that day was the beginning of the calendar week. Monday as the first day of the week was introduced only from June 1940. We'll start with it.
** Monday - Meeting. **
_Oh, yes Pancake week
He's driving into the yard!
Wide in the yard drives in!
Oh, yes Carnival,
Wide, pogosti week,
Weekly! _
This is the day when pancakes are baked, according to tradition, the first pancake was supposed to be given to the poor. We built everything necessary for the celebration, buffets, ice hills, caches and kapycles. The same day they made a scarecrow out of the co-operative and carried it to the streets on the streets.
** Tuesday - Flirting. **
There are skiing from the mountains. The people are leading dances round the coelomic pendulum. Everyone calls people and co-eat with pancakes. On the same day, the models of neu-tect are being adjusted.
** Wednesday - Gourmand. **
Aunt Barbara,
my mother sent me:
Give the pan and skovorodnichka,
poultry and podmazochki.
Water in the oven, wants pancakes furnace.
Where are the pancakes, here we are._
On this day, people enjoyed pancakes and other dishes. Pancakes were baked a variety of: from wheat, from barley cereals, from oats, from buckwheat, fresh and sour.
The people said:
"Damn it is not a wedge, it will not tear the belly" .
After two days of revels, you can go to the mother-in-law to go to the pancakes. Or to the future mother-in-law after seeing. There should be as many pancakes as the soul takes.
** Thursday - Celebrations. **
It began with a large Macle. The holiday is in full swing: everyone is going to the village of Gedi, to the villages and to the villages. They ride in pacpic coves, surrounded by smart horses. Arranged kylakchnye Boys, stormed cnezhnye kpepocity, pepygali chepez divorced bonfires. Go dame went mummers with tambourines and balalaykami, greeted with pozdnikom hospice and peli kolyada, a xozyaeva in response to feeding koljadovschikov with pancakes, they took wine, gave them money.
** Friday - Evening mother-in-law **
_ "Though the blinch aunt is sweet, but the mother-in-law is treated to an Oily son-in-law" _
On this day after razgulia, it's time to sit at home profitably and invite your mother-in-law to pancakes, with a return visit and from the heart to feed her so that she eats for the fifth day.
The girls at noon went out with pancakes in a bowl on their heads. And if the girl was any guy, he was in a hurry to try a pancake, to find out: is the mistress good from it?
** Saturday - Zolovkin. **
At a get-together, the brides were visited by friends. The girl was an occasion to gather, sit together and chat about that, about this.
In the evening the stuffed Carnival was carried out into the yard and burned.
So cheerfully, with abundant food and forgiveness, winter followed, and there was a spring, the people seemed to want to walk up and eat all the Lent.
** Sunday \ - Forgiveness Sunday \ - Seeing off, chaplain. **
On this day, everyone asked for forgiveness from each other:
"_Excuse me, blame me for it! _" Or "_I'm sorry if anything went wrong between us."
For their faults, for resenting each other, they asked for forgiveness and forget their grievances in order to create harmony between themselves and not to keep evil against each other. The farewell was indicated by a kiss and a low bow.
During the holiday, the use of butter, sour cream, eggs and fish was allowed, and meat was not recommended for eating. The food was oily, mostly flour: pancakes, cakes, cheese cakes.
Hailed:
_ "Cheese, butter, sour cream - taste the bounty of the soul" ._
It is believed that the Maclenica is time for pimenia, for giving offense, for ny, and, for sure, begetting and abominable traps.
From where did these traditions and rites go? Why is the first pancake given to a beggar? Why are they crowned at this time? Why burn the Masque? Why not eat meat? And from where did the name "Shrovetide" come from? About this in the continuation ...