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Korochun
''Koročun'' or ''Kračun'' (see Korochun#Names and etymology, other variants below) is one of the names of Slavic mythology, Slavic pagan holiday Koliada. In modern usage, it may refer to the winter solstice in certain Eastern European languages, and also to the holiday of Christmas. Names and etymology *Belarusian language, Belarusian: Карачун, ''Karačun''; * bg, Крачон, ''Kračon'' or Крачунек, ''Kračunek'' * cz, Kračun; * mk, Крачун, ''Kračun''; *Old Russian: , ''Koročunŭ''; *russian: Корочун, ''Koročun'' or Карачун, ''Karačun''; *Ruthenian language, Ruthenian: К(е)речун, ''K(e)rečun'' or Ґ(е)речун, ''G(e)rečun''; * sr, Крачун, ''Kračun''; * sk, Kračún; * hu, Karácsony; * ro, Crăciun. Max Vasmer derived the name of the holiday from the Proto-Slavic language, Proto-Slavic ''*korčunŭ'', which is in turn derived from the verb ''*korčati'', meaning ''to step forward''. Gustav Weigand, and Alexandru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korochun
''Koročun'' or ''Kračun'' (see Korochun#Names and etymology, other variants below) is one of the names of Slavic mythology, Slavic pagan holiday Koliada. In modern usage, it may refer to the winter solstice in certain Eastern European languages, and also to the holiday of Christmas. Names and etymology *Belarusian language, Belarusian: Карачун, ''Karačun''; * bg, Крачон, ''Kračon'' or Крачунек, ''Kračunek'' * cz, Kračun; * mk, Крачун, ''Kračun''; *Old Russian: , ''Koročunŭ''; *russian: Корочун, ''Koročun'' or Карачун, ''Karačun''; *Ruthenian language, Ruthenian: К(е)речун, ''K(e)rečun'' or Ґ(е)речун, ''G(e)rečun''; * sr, Крачун, ''Kračun''; * sk, Kračún; * hu, Karácsony; * ro, Crăciun. Max Vasmer derived the name of the holiday from the Proto-Slavic language, Proto-Slavic ''*korčunŭ'', which is in turn derived from the verb ''*korčati'', meaning ''to step forward''. Gustav Weigand, and Alexandru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koleda
Koliada or koleda (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: коляда, коледа, колада, коледе) is the traditional Slavic name for the period from Christmas to Epiphany or, more generally, to Slavic Christmas-related rituals, some dating to pre-Christian times. It represents a festival or holiday, celebrated at the end of December to honor the sun during the winter solstice. It also involves groups of singers who visit houses to sing carols. Terminology The word is still used in modern Ukrainian language, Ukrainian ("Коляда", Koliadá), Belarusian language, Belarusian (''Каляда'', Kalada, Kaliada), Polish language, Polish (Szczodre Gody ''kolęda'' ), Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian (''Коледа, Коледе, koleda, kolenda''), Lithuanian language, Lithuanian (''Kalėdos, Kalėda''), Czech language, Czech, Slovak language, Slovak, Slovene language, Slovene (''koleda'') and Romanian language, Romanian (''Coli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crăciun (other)
Crăciun is the Romanian word for Christmas. Crăciun may also refer to: People with the surname Crăciun * Cătălin Crăciun (born 1991), Romanian football player * Constanţa Crăciun, a vice president of the State Council of Romania from 1965 to 1969 * Gheorghe Crăciun (author) (1950–2007), a Romanian novelist translator, and literary theorist * Moise Crăciun (born 1927), a Romanian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s * Niculae-Cornel Crăciun (born in 1925), a Romanian Nordic skier who competed in the 1950s Geography *Crăciun, a village in Lingura Commune, Cantemir district, Moldova * Crăciuneasa River, a tributary of the Râul Mare in Romania * Crăciunelu de Jos, a commune located in Alba County, Romania * Crăciunești, a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania * Crăciun (river), a tributary of the Drăgan in Romania See also * Korochun ''Koročun'' or ''Kračun'' (see Korochun#Names and etymology, other variants below) is one of the names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koliada
Koliada or koleda (Cyrillic: коляда, коледа, колада, коледе) is the traditional Slavic name for the period from Christmas to Epiphany or, more generally, to Slavic Christmas-related rituals, some dating to pre-Christian times. It represents a festival or holiday, celebrated at the end of December to honor the sun during the winter solstice. It also involves groups of singers who visit houses to sing carols. Terminology The word is still used in modern Ukrainian ("Коляда", Koliadá), Belarusian (''Каляда'', Kalada, Kaliada), Polish (Szczodre Gody ''kolęda'' ), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian (''Коледа, Коледе, koleda, kolenda''), Lithuanian (''Kalėdos, Kalėda''), Czech, Slovak, Slovene (''koleda'') and Romanian (''Colindă''). The word used in Old Church Slavonic language (Колѧда - Kolęnda) sounds closest to the current Polish language pronunciation, as Polish is one of two Slavic languages which retains the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Solstice
The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky. Either pole experiences continuous darkness or twilight around its winter solstice. The opposite event is the summer solstice. The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (usually 21st or 22nd December) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (usually 20th or 21st of June). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on which it occurs. The term midwinter is also used synonymously with the winter solstice, although it carries other meanings as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Spirit
Evil, in a general sense, is defined as the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness and against common good. It is generally seen as taking multiple possible forms, such as the form of personal moral evil commonly associated with the word, or impersonal natural evil (as in the case of natural disasters or illnesses), and in religious thought, the form of the demonic or supernatural/eternal. While some religions, world views, and philosophies focus on "good versus evil", others deny evil's existence and usefulness in describing people. Evil can denote profound immorality, but typically not without some basis in the understanding of the human condition, where strife and suffering (cf. Hinduism) are the true roots of evil. In certain religious contexts, evil has been described as a supernatural force. Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its motiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Slavs
The West Slavs are Slavic peoples who speak the West Slavic languages. They separated from the common Slavic group around the 7th century, and established independent polities in Central Europe by the 8th to 9th centuries. The West Slavic languages diversified into their historically attested forms over the 10th to 14th centuries. Today, groups which speak West Slavic languages include the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Sorbs. From the twelfth century onwards, most West Slavs converted to Roman Catholicism, thus coming under the cultural influence of the Latin Church, adopting the Latin alphabet, and tending to be more closely integrated into cultural and intellectual developments in western Europe than the East Slavs, who converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and adopted the Cyrillic alphabet. Linguistically, the West Slavic group can be divided into three subgroups: Lechitic, including Polish, Kashubian, and the extinct Polabian and Pomeranian languages; Sorbian in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestor Worship
The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased. In some cultures, it is related to beliefs that the dead have a continued existence, and may possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living. Some groups venerate their direct, familial ancestors. Certain sects and religions, in particular the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, venerate saints as intercessors with God; the latter also believes in prayer for departed souls in Purgatory. Other religious groups, however, consider veneration of the dead to be idolatry and a sin. In European, Asian, Oceanian, African and Afro-diasporic cultures, the goal of ancestor veneration is to ensure the ancestors' continued well-being and positive disposition towards the living, and sometimes to ask for special favours or assistance. The social or non-religious function of ancestor veneration is to cultivate kinship values, such as filial piety, family loyalty, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scholars
A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a terminal degree, such as a master's degree or a doctorate ( PhD). Independent scholars, such as philosophers and public intellectuals, work outside of the academy, yet publish in academic journals and participate in scholarly public discussion. Definitions In contemporary English usage, the term ''scholar'' sometimes is equivalent to the term ''academic'', and describes a university-educated individual who has achieved intellectual mastery of an academic discipline, as instructor and as researcher. Moreover, before the establishment of universities, the term ''scholar'' identified and described an intellectual person whose primary occupation was professional research. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's North Pole. Owing to Earth's axial tilt of 23.439281°, winter in the Northern Hemisphere lasts from the December solstice (typically December 21 UTC) to the March equinox (typically March 20 UTC), while summer lasts from the June solstice through to the September equinox (typically on 23 September UTC). The dates vary each year due to the difference between the calendar year and the astronomical year. Within the Northern Hemisphere, oceanic currents can change the weather patterns that affect many factors within the north coast. Such events include El Niño–Southern Oscillation. Trade winds blow from east to west just above the equator. The winds pull surface water with them, creating currents, which flow westward due to the Coriolis e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hors
Khors, Хорсъ is a Slavic god of uncertain functions mentioned since the 12th century. Generally interpreted as a sun god, sometimes as a moon god. The meaning of the theonym is also unknown: most often his name has been combined with the Iranian word for sun, such as the Persian '' xoršid'', or the Ossetian ''xor'', but modern linguists strongly criticize such an etymology, and other native etymologies are proposed instead. Sources Khors is the most frequently mentioned Slavic god, after Perun. He first appears in the '' Primary Chronicle'' letopis along with other gods to whom Vladimir the Great erected statues: The second source mentioning the god is ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign'': " Prince Vseslav was a judge for his subjects, he distributed cities among princes, but by night he ran like a wolf, from Kiev he ran to Tmutarakan, before the cock crowed, as a wolf he ran along the road of the great Khors." God is also mentioned in the apocryphal work ''Sermon and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
