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thestalkerbunny · 1 year

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Happy Easter; Have you heard of Pysanky Eggs? They're a Ukrainian Custom of decorating eggs with beautiful patterns with wax and dye, depicting traditional patterns, designs and symbols to ward off evil.

Each color and pattern means something unique; ranging from religious iconography to traditional folktale patterns, even to the colors having their own symbols.

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sonyaheaneyauthor · 1 month

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Pysanky - Ukrainian Easter Eggs - in the Carpathian Mountains.

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harlequinhaven · 2 months

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More pysanky done recently.

#egg #pysanky #ukraine #Easter #ukrainian art #egg art #folk art #wax #dye #pattern #art

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squeakowl · 27 days

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Pysanky by Katherine Alexander

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pagan-stitches · 2 months

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The goddess motif is an ancient one, and most commonly found in pysanky from Polissia or Western Podillia. The berehynia was believed to be the source of life and death. On the one hand, she is a life giving mother, the creator of heaven and all living things, and the mistress of heavenly water (rain), upon which the world relies for fertility and fruitfulness. On the other hand, she was the merciless controller of destinies.

The goddess is sometimes depicted with arms upraised, and the arms vary in number but are always in pairs: 2, 4 or 6.

This is similar to the appearance of the Christian Oranta, like this one in S. Sophia’s cathedral in Kyiv:

Pysanky with this motif were called “bohyn’ky” (богиньки, little goddesses) or “zhuchky” (жучки, beetles), the latter because they are similar in appearance to the Cyrillic letter Ж (zh). You can see examples of the oranta-style berehynia in these two examples from Binyashevsky (Podillya, Kyivshchyna), and the one at the top of this page (Volynian Polissia):

#pysanky #Ukraine #Easter egg #Slavic #goddess #goddess embroidery #devotional embroidery #personal embroidery #personal embroidery pattern

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whitedogblog · 27 days

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