Have you met the day of Kupalo with round dances, songs, dances? Did you celebrate the top of summer, enjoy the warm sun? Summer holidays are pleasant to everyone, but it's time to get back to business again. Day of Svarog among the Slavs is a holiday reminiscent of business, of the end of merry Kupala festivities. The summer Svarog region falls on the warmest days at the end of June, but soon it's time to remember about the autumn worries.
After the day of Svarog, youth festivities end
Day of Svarog is the last carefree holiday
Summer holidays are fun and carefree. The spring work in the fields has already ended, bread has been planted, and it is too early to harvest. Therefore, young people have fun until the very day of Svarog, to business, worries, guys and girls will return after the summer of Svarog.
Svarog Day was celebrated on the warmest summer days - June 29. Usually the holiday lasted two or three days. Svarog Day is the last opportunity for young girls to find a groom this summer, to agree on a wedding for the fall. Guys - the opportunity to show their boldness, to participate in merry amusements, to sing songs by the fires at night.
From summer Svarog - red summer, green mowing. So, as the day of Svarog ends among the Slavs, the mowing will begin, and behind it, not far away, not before the holidays, there will be fun. Because nowadays young people are having fun, walking, sometimes even playing naughty. Nobody interferes with that - more guys and girls will have time to settle down.
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Day of Svarog among the Slavs - the time of choosing a bride
God Svarog is revered not only as a skilled blacksmith, but as the Father of the Slavic Gods, the husband of Lada-Mother, the patron saint of the family. Therefore, the day of Svarog for the Slavs is the last opportunity to agree on a wedding, that it is time to play this autumn.
Summer Svarog - the time of an agreement about autumn weddings
Young girls who were not lucky enough to meet their betrothed on the Kupala night, jump over the fire, announcing the agreement about the wedding, hope to find love today. They go to the forest for the night, wait for dawn, and in the morning they collect twelve different flowers from twelve fields and say: “Twelve flowers from different fields, twelve good fellows! Who is the bridegroom-mummer, show me and look at me."
On the day of Svarog, guys with girls, who declared themselves a couple, swing on a wooden swing in the form of a boat, suspended from the branches of a tall strong tree. The girl stands on one side of the swing, opposite her - the guy. Swings fly high in summer Svarozh, girlish laughter is pouring - this is how they rejoice in the villages on the last summer holidays.
Bright dawn on the day of Svarog
Another magical tradition of the Svarog day among the Slavs is meeting the dawn. Because they celebrated summer Svarozh for several days, the youth went to the forest for all this time. In June, every bush will let go to spend the night, but berries have already started in the forests, the rivers are rich in fish - generous, warm days today!
At dawn on the day of Svarog, we watched the sun play
Girls from the village brought shops to the summer Svarozhie, put them on a hillock around the fire. In the same place, a swing was being hung nearby. Every evening they gathered around the fire, sang songs, danced in circles, played merry games. And in the morning we watched from the highest hillock as the sun was playing on the day of Svarog. They say that at dawn the sun appears, shimmering with all colors, sparkling like a rainbow. Whoever sees how the sun plays on the day of Svarog will be happy for a whole year!