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Ralbitz, Germany: Men of Lusatian Serb minority ride decorated horses during an Easter procession.

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Пасхальное чудо - писанки

#easter #pisanki #poland

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Palm Sunday, Kurpie, Poland 1978 - Chris Niedenthal

#Poland #polish folklore #slavic folklore #Palm sunday #kurpie

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Effigies of Marzanna, gaiki and palmy in a procession. Płock, Poland, 1971.

Marzanna is a Slavic goddess of winter, whose effigies are drowned and/or burned in Poland around the spring equinox even nowadays. They’re then replaced by gaiki - colorful decorations made of green branches decorated with various ribbons and flowers, which represent the spring and the ‘reborn’ nature. Gaiki were possibly connected to the Slavic feast of Jare Gody and the spring god Jaryło/Jarilo.

While the effigies of Marzanna kept a very clear connection to the pre-Christian goddess (however usually belittled and called just ‘winter’) and the ancient rites, custom of walking with gaiki was partly syncretized to appear for example as very colorful ‘palmy’ (palms) during the Christian feast of the Palm Sunday before Easter.

Photos taken by Józef Burszta, via cyfrowearchiwum.amu.edu.pl

#Poland #polish folklore #slavic folklore

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Dzieci palące Marzannę, Warszawa, Polska

Children burning Marzanna, Warsaw, Poland

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Eos in Etruria, Mask, The Art of Mask

Etruria, the land of the pre-Roman Etruscans, later became Tuscany. Eos is the goddess of sunrise, and here she's dawning over the Tuscan landscape.

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Days since my partner and I were woken up by a phone call from a client: 2 0

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Rybička (English: Little Fish) is a small Czech pocket knife with the handle shaped as a fish. It has been produced since the first decades of the 20th century. The knife was particularly popular during the period of socialism in Czechoslovakia. It was valued as a simple and small tool used for mushroom picking, a traditional Czech hobby. It was very popular and sold in large numbers on the Czechoslovak market. As of 2014, it is produced by the company Mikov in Mikulášovice, Czech Republic.

#czech republic

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chrzęszczyżewoszyce

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80s hits, my last bastion of defence against seasonal depression.

#80s hits save me #save me 80s hits

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Lithuanians defending the television and radio tower with their own bodies from the Soviet tanks on the 13th of January 1991.

14 people died and 702 were injured.

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Also, I really wish I didn't have to say this, but antisemitism against Zionists isn't okay either. The problem with being antisemitic isn't that you might be harassing a "good" Jew, it's that antisemitism is wrong no matter who it's aimed at.

You cannot justify bigotry as long as it's aimed at "bad" people. The fact that many of the people I see arguing against this simple statement are the same ones who call out transphobes for misgendering "bad" trans people just shows how little society as a whole actually sees Jews as people.

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has this one been done yet

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Turns out I just got food poisoning but my partner is intent on never letting me live this down "Yeah, she had to take sick leave at work to grieve her favorite anime character".

Me watching Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1: What a cool show! Can't wait to see season 2!

Me watching Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2: *cried so hard I threw up*