Teenage girls in Ukrainian national clothes and traditional flower headdresses are seen preparing for the celebration. This holiday symbolizes the birth of the summer sun – Kupalo. The history of the Christian Church can answer us how the pagan deity Kupalo gets the name of Ivan. In the IV century AD, this day was proclaimed the holiday of the birth of John the Baptist - the forerunner of Jesus Christ. As a result of the Christianization of the pagan feast the name "Kupala" got connected with the Christian "Ivan". On the territory of Ukraine for many centuries Kupala customs changed, there wer
Teenage girls in Ukrainian national clothes and traditional flower headdresses are seen preparing for the celebration. This holiday symbolizes the birth of the summer sun – Kupalo. The history of the Christian Church can answer us how the pagan deity Kupalo gets the name of Ivan. In the IV century AD, this day was proclaimed the holiday of the birth of John the Baptist - the forerunner of Jesus Christ. As a result of the Christianization of the pagan feast the name "Kupala" got connected with the Christian "Ivan". On the territory of Ukraine for many centuries Kupala customs changed, there were always local differences, and they were not everywhere equally preserved - the majority were saved in Polissia as one of the archaic zones of the Slavic world. The celebration includes a number of Slavic rituals, herb collecting, bonfire lighting, and bathing in the river.
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