Pagan "Easter" in Ukraine. Priest and worshipers in traditional clothes pray to the God of Sun, Khortytsia Island, Ukraine.

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Pagan "Easter" in Ukraine. Proto-Slavic Easter celebration occurs in first Sunday after spring equinox in sanctuary of Bronze Age on the Khortytsya Island. Pagans worship to one God who has a lot of different forms. He dies as young boy Kolyada and born as man Yarilo on Easter.

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Location: Khortytsia Island, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine
Photo credit: © Oleksandr Rupeta / Alamy / Afripics
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