... very strong supporters of Yushchenko. ... Thomas: My sources in Uzhhorod tell me that Yushchenko received about 60% and Yanukovych received just under 40%...
I'd like to hear more about this nature religion. I'm finding "Dazhbog" in Vivisimo (I prefer Vivisimo to Google) internet searches. I had also saved an...
Yes.... I had heard that the Lemko ornate wood decorations on their houses had "Sun God" roots, and..... of course, we were 1000 years behind in the conversion...
Check out the Lithuanian pagan beliefs. They are related to the Slavs way back and were the last Euros to be converted to Christianity. They are quite proud...
Early Slavic beliefs are a great interest to me...hard to find much info concerning the Rusyn take on this idea but it is out there. One of my favorites sites:...
Would it be possible for a few of you who are fluent in the language to give those of us interested a few words and phrases to use.....such as greetings,...
... ********* Magocsi published two pamphlets that have such things: Let's Speak Rusyn But his pamplets only include Rusyn spoken south of the Carpathians. ...
And the embroidery on rushnyks is filled with goddess imagery; see the fascinating book "Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe" by Mary B. Kelly. In general I...
How many of you know Kutya? I was just introduced to it by a nice lady from our church. We didnąt have it at home growing up. Iąm reading in a Ukrainian...
I don'y know what we called it but every Christmas my Aunt Mary, the Kollar family Matriarch, would serve among other things, a dish comprised of honey,...
I just remembered. The host was called "oplatky." It was served with honey. Each of us ate a piece and the sign of the cross was made on our foreheads with...
Hello Ed, Oplatki is Polish Christmas wafers. Serving an oplatek (a Polish Christmas wafer) is not a tradition used in Eastern Christian Rusyn households, or...
... ******** The communion host in the Eastern Christian confessions, which Rusyns would be (either Orthodox or Greek Catholics), is a plain leavened bread....
Well, Lavrenty, we are not Polish but Rusyn from Spis' - Helcmanovce and Vel'ky Folkmar (Kojsov) - and that was our family tradition. Ed ... From: krupniak To:...
It spread from Poland to the Czeck republic and even as far as Estonia/Lithuania/Balkin areas -- try to keep a good wafer down, not no how; not no way! Caye ...
I introduced it to my Orthodox parish this year -- as we have a lot of Polish Roman Catholic converts -- it was a huge hit -- served along with the flatbread...
Oplatki (wafer) Boubalki (poppyseed cereal/pasta type entree) and, of course, honey, sometimes even raw garlic -- to symbolize (as the Jews do at Passover) how...
In my Orthodox Parish -- we do Koliva at the 40-day event after a funeral -- but the Ukrainians call the recipe Kutia -- pretty close, slightly different -- I,...
The blessing said was ... "May we love each other as the bee loves honey." Caye ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! -...
Why does the Orthodox church use leavened bread and the Roman Catholic church use unleavened bread (wafers)? The differences between East and West on the use...
The Holy Supper tradition passed down from my Rusyn grand-parents was bread and honey and garlic and salt, said to symbolize the sweetness and bitterness of...
... ******** The Mother of the family blesses each person present with honey in the form of a cross on each forehead, saying: "In the Name of the Father and of...
... In your book you make a very useful observation that I think is of great relevance to the views of slavic paganism now prevalent on the web. That is the...
The questions asks Orthodox versus Roman, Then the answer is East vs west. I don't know which is East or West, since they all are East or West of the USA...
. 3,000 in Rebel Band Terrorize Galicia Ukrainian Nationalists, German Deserters Led by SS Colonel Burn 3 Villages in a Night By Wireless to The New York Times...
