Koliada
| Koliada | |
|---|---|
Slavic people | |
| Significance | celebration of New Year re-birth |
| Begins | January 6 |
| Ends | January 7 |
| Date | December 25, January 7, January 6, December 24 |
| First time | unknown |
| Related to | Christmas traditions, Eastern Orthodox liturgical days |
Koliada or koleda (Cyrillic: коляда, коледа, колада, коледе) is the traditional Slavic name for the period from Christmas to Epiphany or, more generally, for Slavic Christmas-related rituals, some dating to pre-Christian times.[1] It represents a festival or holiday, celebrated at the end of December to honor the sun during the Northern-hemisphere winter solstice. It also involves groups of singers who visit houses to sing carols.[2][3]
Terminology
The word is still used in modern Ukrainian ("Коляда", Koliadá), Belarusian (Каляда, Kalada, Kaliada), Polish (Szczodre Gody kolęda [kɔˈlɛnda]), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian (Коледа, Коледе, koleda, kolenda), Lithuanian (Kalėdos, Kalėda), Czech, Slovak, Slovene (koleda) and Romanian (Colindă).[4]
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In modern
Koleda is also celebrated across northern Greece by the Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia, in areas from Florina to Thessaloniki, where it is called Koleda (Κόλιντα, Κόλιαντα) or Koleda Babo (Κόλιντα Μπάμπω) which means "Koleda Grandmother" in Slavic. It is celebrated before Christmas by gathering in the village square and lighting a bonfire, followed by local Macedonian music and dancing.
Croatian composer
It is celebrated in the Büyükmandıra village of Babaeski district, Kırklareli Province in Turkey as a halloween-like festival and dates a thousand years back.[8]
See also
- Colindă, a similar Romanian/Moldovan tradition
- Korochun
- Crăciun (disambiguation)
- Twelfth Night (holiday)
- Yule
- Christmas carol
- Ķekatas
- Koliadka
- Koledari
- Mummering
- Turoń
- Koleda(Koledovanie) in the Serbian tradition
- Kalenda Proclamation
- Shchedryk (song)
- Calennig
- Christmas Waits
- Beltane, Gaelic festival in honour of the sun
References
- ^ "Толковый словарь Даля онлайн".
- ^ Brlic-Mazuranic, Ivana. Croatian Tales of Long Ago. Translated by Fanny S. Copeland. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.. 1922. p. 258.
- ^ Tryfanenkava, Maryna A. 2001. "The Current Status of Belarusian Calendar-Ritual Tradition". In: FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association, 6 (2): 43. https://doi.org/10.17161/folklorica.v6i2.3709.
- ^ "Koleda". Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika [Standard Slovene Dictionary]. Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. 2000.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- ^ Biblioteka warszawska. 1858 s. 318, Materyały antropologiczno-archeologiczne i etnograficzne 1826 s. 186
- ^ Radio Dubrovnik (2021-02-09). "Dubrovačka kolenda proglašena zaštićenim nematerijalnim kulturnim dobrom" (in Croatian). Croatian Radio.
- ^ "Kırklareli celebrates horror festival Koleda - Türkiye News". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2023-01-09.