ALSO DID YALL NOTICE THE 袦袗袪孝袝袧袠效袣袠/M膫R葰I葮OR ON BUL'S CHEST AND RO AND MOL'S HATS
basically 屑邪褉褌械薪懈褔泻懈 are red/white twisted threads that are given out to friends, relatives, colleagues on 1st of march in bulgaria, it has an ancient balkan pagan origin
in romania, they have m膬r葲i葯or which is something similar but it's worn mostly by women and kids, men wore it rarely
basically these red/white threads are tied to blooming trees if u see a swallowtail or a stork or a blooming tree, the point of the custom is to bring fortune to the wearer (in bulgaria, there used to be this custom where u put the martenitsa under a big rock and later, you'd look under the rock and make omens based on what ur seeing - types of bugs, worms, etc)
also, interestingly, there's the figure of 斜邪斜邪 袦邪褉褌邪 in bulgaria and the figure of baba dochia in romania - they're some sort of temperamental grandmas who can be very cruel, bulgarian baba marta can be angry but she can also quickly become calm and happy, this references the quick weather changes in march
perhaps there was some sort of dacian/thracian elderly female deity that had something to do with fertility, fortune and spring? maybe this is the origin of the holiday?
i have more art to post but just posting these three together for rn 馃榿馃憤 first is romania (wallachian tho, im a vlad the impaler fangirl), second is cyprus (note that i do make him younger than most ppl) (not that everyone is wrong or anything no no its more of just a preference thing), and last is heracles but janissary core because he was a little intense back then (which is completely fair i would be too)