It consisted of short, humorous scenes, designed to amuse the viewer. In Ukrainian folklore, there are many legends about Kozak Mamai, who was a great warrior, defender of freedom and honor. He always appeared at a very critical moment in a battle to save the day. Probably the role of Kozak in the puppet theater was based on Kozak Mamai, this semi-legendary folk hero. In the puppet theater play the Kozak doll was always made larger than the others.
He wore the traditional dress of the Kozaky, had a bandura Ukrainian folk string instrument , and smoked a pipe. In a very long monologue, the Kozak puppet spoke of the glorious historical past of Ukraine.
The short scenes of the second act also dealt with a variety of negative characteristics of man, i. The scenes changed rapidly and in them people lied, cheated, tricked one another, argued, fought — all for the purpose of bringing out the comic elements in such behavior.
The Kozak, however, was beyond all that. He conquered all who wished him ill, even the devil. The viewers saw the heroic past of Ukraine in the person of Kozak. Both acts of the play were accompanied by music — a choir, duets, solos and instrumental ensembles made up of violins, cymbals, a flute and a drum. The Kozak played the bandura and sang old epic songs. He and the other characters in the play also danced.
During the Christmas holidays, students went from, from town to town, village to village, house to house with the Vertep and gave performances. Malanka commemorates the feast day of St. Malanka caps off the festivities of the Christmas holidays, and is often the last opportunity for partying before the solemn period of Lent which precedes Easter. Basil and commemorates the Circumcision of Christ.
Friday 12 November. All Rights Reserved Created by Siter. That means that every years the Julian calendar falls behind by a day. Currently the old Julian calendar is thirteen days behind the newer Gregorian calendar, thus Christmas comes on January 7th, exactly 13 days after December Now that we have the dates figured out I want to share with you how we celebrated Christmas here.
For our Christmas Eve service we had our children participate. They did an amazing job, just check out a few of the videos below. I also had the privilege of preaching on Christmas Eve. You can watch my sermon here in Russian. Not one word. The video was in Russian and I had no idea what the kids said. I just saw the joy on their faces. Create a personalised content profile.
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After the meal, people love to sing carols or 'Koliadky'. They can be sung around the table or you might go out caroling in the streets. People sometimes carry brightly colored stars on poles when they go caroling singing. Making paper snowflakes to put on the tree or in windows are a popular decoration. In parts of western Ukraine, Christmas Trees are often decorated with artificial spider's webs because of the story of The Christmas Spider.
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