Few people know that the tradition of swinging on a swing came to us from the distant Arctic ancestral home of people of the white race, known under the names of Arctida, Hyperborea, Oriana, Daarius, Arktogea, etc. Even in the ancient Russian Vedic tradition, the meaning of this action was remembered, and therefore swing the swing was allowed only during sunny holidays from the moment of sunrise to sunset. And this is not accidental, since the sacred secret of the swing consisted in the repetition of the movement of the Sun in the Arctic polar regions.
A. Tulupov in his book "The Family of the North" writes about this:
"… The same Hyperborean rite was, later leveled down to festive entertainment, riding on a swing. It was on Shrovetide that Russians built swings and took them apart only after Easter. And unlike many other entertainments (round dances, singing, etc.) swings were allowed during Great Lent, and then, interrupted for the period of Holy Week, resumed on Easter and continued throughout the entire Bright Week. Moreover: “Swinging on a swing on a particular holiday, as a rule, was recognized as compulsory for everyone or for certain socio-age groups (youth, children, old people, etc.); in the rest of the spring-summer time, the swing retained its value simply as a form of collective leisure "(" Slavic antiquities ", Institute of Economics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 3).
Thus, the swing is a reflection of the ancient Vedic cults of sun worship, which have their origins in the already mentioned arctic ancestral home. And even the imposition of the Christian tradition on the more ancient - Vedic, did not lead to a complete loss of the sacred meaning of swinging on a swing, as a repetition of the movement of the polar sun. That is why, even after the arrival of Christianity in villages and villages, people continued to observe this ancient tradition on holidays that have a connection with solar cycles, without even remembering its original meaning, but observing all the requirements of the most ancient rituals.