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Зайцева
МГИМ им. Шнитке
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Ильин день
Илья-пророк
Дмитрий Конаныхин
Елена Александровна Зайцева
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Dear viewers, you are seeing a technical
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recording of the Russian University,
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today we have an unusual program, as
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always at the end of the month, we are doing a special
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music program, music of the folk
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calendar, our guest is a
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candidate of art history, professor of the
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Moscow State Institute of Music
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named after Shni Nitki or Anna Aleksandrovna
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Zaitseva Elena Aleksandrovna my now
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we will let's start and tell everyone what
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summer music is and Ilya's music of a new
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day ahead the second of August we begin
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hello dear radio listeners
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this is a Russian university for
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students 3-channel hyung today we have an
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unusual release today as always at the
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end of the month we hear folk music
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folk calendar music ahead
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Ilyin’s day and today
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our good friend of
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the candidate of art history, professor of the
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Moscow State Institute of Music
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named after Schnittke
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Elena Alexandrovna, will tell us about this
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Hello Elena Alexandrovna
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Hello Dmitry Hello
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dear radio listeners Elena
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Alexandrovna When I was little and
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I was taught to press a sickle to a network of rye, this is to
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thresh with a hand flail I never thought
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that 40 years later I would be
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talking about how and correctly to
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sing songs, what customs people came up with, how it
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all is woven into the cycle of work,
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the cycle, the worldview, the solstice,
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what we are talking about during our entire
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large cycle, music of the folk
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calendar, please tell us what is
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the end of July for you, what is the beginning of
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August for you, what is Ilya’s day for you, when the
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prophet Elijah thunders across the sky in his chariot
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and throws lightning,
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I want to say that for me, as a person of the
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21st century, this is an immersion in the atmosphere of the
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folk calendar of the folk village of
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ancient Russia and this a very, very important
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event I want to show to those who see, they only
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hear our broadcasts, this
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icon of this procession or prophet on a
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fiery chariot to heaven, as is known, on
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July 20 of the old style and on August 2 of the new
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style, Elijah’s Day is celebrated and they
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say a lot about it they say
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that a deer threw a piece of ice into the river before
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swimming, you can’t start August August
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was called the diary, it was also called thick
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food, that is, this is a month of abundance and
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the sun would have already passed through the top of the head, summer
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and the top of the top of the head, as we understood
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last time, this is the day of Peter and Paul,
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this is July 12 and among the people they used to say that Peter and
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Paul lowered the hour
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and Elijah the prophet 2 dragged away that is, after the
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summer solstice
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by the twelfth of July we already have an hour of
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daylight time. Elijah the prophet
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already used to say that until the middle of the day it is summer
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from the middle of the day it is autumn, but I want to say that
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this is the implementation the Old Testament
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saint
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found life in our understanding,
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it happened quite early and
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not only summer holidays are associated with his name,
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but they also addressed him in winter during
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bullfights, in particular, they sang and Elijah the prophet
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walks on him and
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spoke to him in winter so that all this would
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happen next, but I want to say right away
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that Elijah the prophet
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very actively replaced Perun as the supreme
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god of the Slavs, the supreme god of the Russians and
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Ilyin himself the day August 2 is the day of Perun
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and on this day it would
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definitely rain and thunder,
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but let me remind you that Perron was also the god of the
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princely squad name Many archaeologists tell us their very
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interesting symbolism
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about this,
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in particular after a
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place of feasting was found under the soot there
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where stood the idol of Perun surrounded by eight
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figures and then its image
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appeared as indicated by various scientists and
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Czech scientists Lubar Niederle and our
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academy speak of fishermen in books
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paganism of ancient Russia
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paganism of the ancient Slavs here is the appearance of
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Perun on spinning wheels
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appearance on various details of houses
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in particular on the reasons and these are some 6 or
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in a dream ray rosettes this is such an
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interesting sign of the platform it existed in
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wooden architecture I want to say right away
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that the wheel is a fiery chariot or
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rising to the sky also consists
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of eight parts from 8
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sectors, and here is such an interesting
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symbolism: digital even, I draw your
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attention to even, it was connected as
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raw materials, and so from Peru we
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considered Thursday to be a new day, although August 2
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can naturally fall on any day,
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but this is the presence thunderclouds she
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remains amazingly preserved in childhood
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I have repeatedly told our
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radio listeners who I hope
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listen to us throughout our
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wonderful country. My place was in the
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village of Chernichenko not far from such and on
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August 2 his hands Lena kept saying all the time
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take a raincoat come rain and a shirt
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well you look, the sky is blue,
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there is not a cloud, but there will be a nail and it will
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certainly be raining from where the
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right knock is coming from,
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yes, but I continue my thoughts, I want to
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say that pyrrole, he really was
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one of the very important top of
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other gods of the Slavs, along with Svarog,
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Svarozhich, and Lada Mocha I sew, although I could
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what was she responsible for moisture? She was also
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responsible for the wolf for spinning, but this
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masculine principle in Peru was very
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significant for me, and as we learn, he had children,
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they were brother and sister, and taro, and
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Tartaria or grant tr3 was the
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name of our country for
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quite a long time and on the maps in the museums of
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Simferopol in the museums of Samara there are such
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names
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that I was especially struck by visiting one
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of the largest libraries in the world in Isku
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Real in Spain,
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the guide showed us a map, this map
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is hidden behind the door of the
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second floor of this unique
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habitat of the kings of this unique
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repository
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not only books, manuscripts, but also
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geographical maps, they showed us a map of the
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sixteenth century where Tartary was written
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like this, please
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tell me this is our side,
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this is our village, this is our people, all this
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weaves all this knowledge into the cycle,
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but it’s hell and yet this is the crown of summer,
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this is the offensive a special period in the life of
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any peasant, this is ahead of the strada,
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this is the stubble, this is generally all that is connected
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here, we worked here, and now there will be even more
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work, that is, this is a very
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special period, I remember how I was taught to
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knit the oars and the first sheaf and the last
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sheaf of it, we will talk about this today to speak
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because everything revolves around this
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special ritual of a special introduction of going out
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into the field, because this is all that fills
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this is the basis of everything in later life, how
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you trample and how in
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reality all these peasants came out and
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approached this special
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period of theirs ahead strada
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yes Dmitry, and at the beginning of our
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conversation you mentioned these interesting
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sounds of the chains of the
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sickle of the scythe of the hammer,
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that is, the sound was filled and the sound filled with a
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variety of overtones the whole
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space, the whole space of
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a person’s life, the whole of it, I’ll say this, the landscape and
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from horizon to horizon there really
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were just continuous works of what work,
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weeding, this was very often done by
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children, it was the collection of herbs, the collection of mushrooms and
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berries, but the most important period of this time
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was the harvest,
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and I want to say right away that even the
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word harvest itself is associated with such
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very important concepts as the stomach of Geneva,
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summer, and life,
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that is, for of our ancestors, this is the agricultural
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component, it was the most important, and
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since they idealized many things
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and believed that like attracts
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like, this is what we call a field, they
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used to call it a
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feminine name, it is a field that is
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neuter, they are feminine, and this
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girl who gave birth, she very often
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compared with the image of a girl with a scythe,
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which if she had already given birth to this rye,
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rye, then the word freedom of speech to give birth and
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the words of women in labor, and then this is it, she was
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surprisingly completely activated
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in songs and not at the beginning of our communication,
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I would like you to sing one Smolensk
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song that I recorded a long time ago, a spruce tree in the
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Nevsky district in the village of Novospasskoye
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at the Linka mine and such a song in the field
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to get hurt by birch bark stood in my mind
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and yu stop the flock
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alla and stop stood in
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the voice of ah.
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I break
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the voices
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and to the hair the swallowtail voices can to
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Allah May uma
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and yu with the voice of guca
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and or marry me or Scott let emai
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umaya
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let go of the light brown braid
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[music]
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[music]
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the image of him is the image of the field that bears
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these ears of which he grew which
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stood he sang everything in the songs and imagine the
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presence or absence of rain
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.
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ascended ascended ascended suddenly the rain and
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this voice would fall, that is, naturally a
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farmer, a peasant, he was worried
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especially during that period when
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he did many things by hand, but our ancestors
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undertook a lot of different, as they would
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say now, actions of
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rites and rituals in order for the ear to
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withstand so that no diseases, drought crop
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failures, insects did not strike him, and now
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let’s mentally transfer now from the
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Smolensk region to the Vladimir
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Odessa region there was a very beautiful
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ritual, it was called driving a spikelet for
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one’s own, which means that people from
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different villages of
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middle-aged, elderly people gathered
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and everyone stood up in pairs and joined their hands
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as follows if we
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take hold of the wrist of our left hand with our right hand and
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connect that also with the hands of
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another person, we will get such a
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small chair unit and on these
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connected hands there
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should be 100 a
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small child should stand up and this little
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child should, holding his head, leaning on
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his head step with your feet on
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this, let’s say, choral do,
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otherwise you usually had to move
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clockwise around this very thing, not you,
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that is, well, we would say that this is very
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similar to a religious procession,
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but it is much older than the rituals
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associated with Christianity and there
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was a special song like this a voice at him and in
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this way they walked around
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the field, they protected it, just like a fox
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digs out from fires, they dig such
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special ditches, so consider
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that this is not how they protect,
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but you can’t just approach a bullet,
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so I remember very well that for example, I
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was born in Ukraine there is such a custom
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to check the field so that you never know, either an evil
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person,
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God forbid, or a witch or sorcerer, an
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evil spirit may come and create a twist in the field, a
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twist is when you imagine
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what kind of a whirlwind braids the
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ears of wheat into such a rope,
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it was impossible to touch it, they were sent slept by a
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special person so that the healer could
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come up and pull out that twist, they were
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left behind especially for the priest,
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they poured wine for the priest and he couldn’t do
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it himself, just
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take the screw with his bare hands and tell me about the bull
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somewhere in the forties of the fifties of the
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19th century
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and it was necessary to take it in wrap your hands
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in the stole
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and pull out that twist and many
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priests refused to cry, God forbid
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people above the robot, I’m
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going to get sick because of this and I’m going to die, and this
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twist still had to be
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removed somehow in a special way and I
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remember the poison for sure that even at 70 ’s of the
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last century, everyone was looking to see if there were any
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twists in the field, how many years had passed and what was it like
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in Russia, this happened, I know
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what I want to say, he himself periodically
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goes into some interesting such
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layers of memory, in our village we didn’t have
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such to believe associated with the spinning of the
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ears of corn in the field,
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but I willingly believe that this could have happened
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here, it was usually associated with such a
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bomb, or it was also believed that it was
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kind of twisting, it came from evil spirits
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from witches from negative energy, as they would
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say now, but and I want to say that the
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very connection of these worlds,
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actually different and negative
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positive energies
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of rituals, was of very great importance
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and each of the rituals
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he always strived for good, he always
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strives for light and turning to the harvest itself,
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I want to first of all explain
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They have such a general meaning that
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if each ritual that we
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considered before you will be left with
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specifically the wedding and specifically the summer
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solstice, it has a specific date, then in the case of
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the harvest, Ilyin’s day, August 2, is a
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soot soup only an excuse because the harvest
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was associated with a certain in the
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summer, but in each region,
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depending on climatic conditions
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and the characteristics of this particular summer,
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this happened at different times, but the harvest
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had its own boundaries, we would say that
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time and space were marked,
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and this marking of time and
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space was that amazing
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protection.
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from those bad deeds that sometimes,
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with the help of the stole
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and with the help of the sign of the cross,
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tried to fight these phenomena, so
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what kind of peelings of the compressed were they?
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Now let’s try to imagine this
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long,
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very important working period,
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labor suffering associated with the field and
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harvesting
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this first of all, for the zhinka, squeeze the
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dozhinka and help and
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or sense, look, it means everywhere there is
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this
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gin, yes yes, but for about before oh the
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great mighty Russian language, so this is
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how it happened for the zhinka, basically it
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was the lot of women and if the men were in the
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haymaking,
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they passed you had to
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drag the hay, but it was precisely this
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that was processed by women, but we
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can learn about this from Venetsianov’s paintings about
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who did what work, actually gravel 7
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usually in the way it was for a woman, if we clamp a
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certain number of
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ears of grain with a sickle and it will fit in ours approximately
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inside the elbow, yes, that is, this armful of
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ears of ears was
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once a snob and the first sheaf,
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this and not the ritual of the first
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sheaf, it was very important, naturally
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it was entrusted to a
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beautiful young stately woman, this
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sheaf was very often tied with either other
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ears of corn or red with a ribbon, and we
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remember that this is the most important ob-rek, this is how a
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small child twists a
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twisted thread around his navel;
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no one went to get married if he had bandages on his
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stomach in the wrong place; you understand
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the sash is exactly the same and could have
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gone and then with him along the edge you don’t
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necessarily need
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to go around, and then we didn’t get this snood home, we
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carry it to the red corner, we have
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everything we don’t have there, and there are faithful branches
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lying and the Trinity Easter wreath, and
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this snood, these are the grains, the first
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grains they possessed, as ours believed
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ancestors with healing power,
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if the child gets sick, it means you need to
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grind
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this flour into millstones to bake the baby, let it
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tempt you, if the cow is sick, then you
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need to add grains of this
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first sheaf to the cow’s food,
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I read you every minute graphically, here are
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the notes of Vasily Petrovich Miloradovich, an
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ethnographer from Poltava, he was 46
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years old, Rashid 1846 in 1911 he died,
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I have a book like this, a
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folk belief on the faith and demonology of
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Ukrainians, and here he describes
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everything, really, in Russian, sandy, no, and then it was
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still difficult with Ukrainian, he says
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that he rolled the first handful of compressed rye to get
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married three times around her hand
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she tucks it
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into her belt and presses like that all day long and this
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first press that she
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collected does not help her so that
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her lower back does not hurt, and if someone’s hands
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hurt, Vasily Petrovich
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Miloradovich writes, then this one
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could be rolled off with this grain of the first sheaf
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and with this decoction for a person give the
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Thai people believed the
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enormous power of this, these wives of
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this power, it is written here that people
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ran around this dream and jumped and
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rolled around it, that is, it’s amazing
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that each locality has its own
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customs and it’s just amazing, we’ll
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get to the last snap that in general it’s a
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fantastic story,
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so here it begins with
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quite a lot of hard work to I remember I
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went out with a sickle
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this is the wallpaper so you work works to
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roll up there even before the end of the field
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far away the grandmother is nearby and now you work
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you work just have time to transport it
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knitting well, who knows how to paint that is,
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this is so separate, but I want to say
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that someone is working
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[laughter]
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that in ancient Russian songs
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all this was reflected
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because
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they naturally squeezed the hardworking with a golden sickle,
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but the lazy ones worked with a deep
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sickle, that is, a wooden one on this topic
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I want to wash down now a prosperous song of the
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Smolensk region, which at one time
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was recorded by a collector of the results of
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Kharkov and Smolensk song song I
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[music]
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a lot of sickle and licked Pierrot and
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kvass at sunset
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[music]
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field this field
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dozed off standing
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and Petrova field and Petrova dozed off standing
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lights old and not from Korea sickles and meadows and
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and they reap is not a pity and they lived a pity
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you will laugh but here I am.
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this is a song only in the Little Russian
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way, I see it in the notes of
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Markevich, who
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wrote it down exactly in 1845, and
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golden sickles and steel sickles
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and here you are and how they live. perhaps
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he tied the sheaves and laid them at the cops and
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we chopped up our master slow this is the
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forties of the century before last and everything is the
00:25:23
same, the same song
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is amazing where is Smolensk
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and this is with us this is closer to the Kiev region it’s
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important you touched on because in
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fact here Smolensk
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Bryansk region is the western region of
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our Russia, yes, they were connected from
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Belarus
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from Ukraine because once we were a
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single community,
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once we were a single people, moreover,
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in these regions, sometimes you can ask
00:25:51
the relict they are we Palekh, that is, this is the
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unity that it was expressed primarily by
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folklore in traditions; moreover,
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my colleague and I will start an hour in Poland, this is
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golik 3 I want pain during the conservatory
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years, we went to Belarus on expeditions and
00:26:10
Gali was engaged in Geneva,
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she recorded Belarusian daily
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songs, very interesting, and my
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friend and I are ok, although we are not knew the
00:26:18
Belarusian languages, we just wrote down
00:26:20
the phonemes, here the grandmother sings, and after it you need to have
00:26:22
time to write down this text, that is,
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these same daily rituals are very
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beautiful and almost every
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nation has them, and remember, I
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remembered a picture of a painting by Bruegel,
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who is in in prague the knot costs
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the harvest exactly the same people sell it, it just
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seemed to me that the sheaves are much more
00:26:43
serious, and it seems that they are the same
00:26:46
yellow color, they are the same,
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well, joyful color, I don’t know how, like a
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tree, like a tree, also on which icons of
00:26:57
raw materials are depicted, that is, this here is the
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sunlight that is expressed in grain in
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wood in the gold of a sickle, it united, it
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united the most different cultures, the most
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different peoples and our Slavic and
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Germanic and other peoples of Europe, it
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was a kind of single symbol of abundance and
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joy, but how our customs differed,
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we definitely had protective
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rites and specifically such rituals,
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but they were at the same time protective and
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productive; for example, they were preserved in the
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Bryansk region in the village of expensive;
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there women made such an instrument,
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it was called cubicle and
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or the ancient pan flute, and
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they made these instruments when the
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rye itself began to spike, and then they were
00:27:52
simply thrown away as unnecessary
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when the colossi were already poured and it was
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not necessary, but as they say, sit down in
00:27:59
those bushes to catch the fool,
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but there were losses of 100 that these
00:28:04
little ones managed to catch, this is, first of all,
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Kulak’s,
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I’m holding in my hands a pipe already
00:28:09
made, well, actually in modern
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conditions, but now we’ll try and
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reproduce the protective ritual when,
00:28:16
during the harvest, thousand during the
00:28:20
marriage of the wives, the second stage, the women
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walked in a circle, we have already talked about this
00:28:27
in our previous programs, I invite
00:28:29
radio listeners to listen, and when they
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walked clockwise, they stomped, clapped their
00:28:36
hands, or geckos
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whistled, but I there are not so many
00:28:41
body parts, so now I’m using these
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interesting
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instruments, purely female, unlike the
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male colleagues on which we
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drove horses last time, I’ll try to do this now,
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we cleaned our space of our
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airwaves in Russia and took care of our niva
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and took care of our beloved Moscow, our
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country and our dear new land, even if
00:29:05
you want it, you want coronavirus, you want it from evil
00:29:08
thoughts, but the most important thing is the sound
00:29:11
that, and as a result of this, it turns out
00:29:32
fantastic, you know, it’s like such a
00:29:35
rhythmic sound before the wind instrument,
00:29:37
again, a column of air, an appeal to
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the universe to higher powers with these
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interesting sounds that is, not only
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vocal music, not only songs sounded
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during the harvest, not only was it very
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interesting and the accompaniment of sickles and
00:29:56
chains if they brought this
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grain to the threshing floor, but also such
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instruments that called for something
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bright and good that must necessarily
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be our region and svarga,
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tell me, after all, if we
00:30:12
imagine that the work is going on all
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day long already or in the evenings or ducks in
00:30:19
the news in the late afternoon or during the day, I
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imagine this field
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is hard labor, it goes down the back under
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the flow anyway people hear around them and
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life is going on, the sun is going down, the
00:30:34
cuckoo is cuckooing, the whole world around us
00:30:38
lives and sings with its own life, and all the same, they
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sang songs not only like that, and in
00:30:44
general they just filled in rituals when
00:30:47
hard work makes you sing because otherwise
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you’ll fall, no, you won’t, how
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it develops the whole this process
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this whole process of the parties here I want to say
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the following look you used the words
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convict the thing is that a convict and he
00:31:03
very often works under captivity they work for
00:31:04
themselves here a person works for himself and the
00:31:09
sun gives him this power and the
00:31:11
earth gives him and you remembered one
00:31:15
amazing bird cuckoo thank you
00:31:17
for this reminder the fact is that the
00:31:19
cuckoo was considered a bird the prophet it
00:31:22
was a bird Kant the actor who first of
00:31:25
all connects us with the world navi and if
00:31:29
Elijah the Prophet Perun all the gods they
00:31:33
help us with the level of rule and glory we
00:31:36
are with you in in the real
00:31:39
world, from navi, especially with the help of
00:31:42
special genres, which I’ll
00:31:44
tell you right now, the ancestors were called upon, the
00:31:46
ancestors were called upon to
00:31:49
help the farmer preserve that very powerhouse
00:31:52
until late in the evening and until
00:31:54
the early morning, because during the harvest of
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roads, indeed, not only every
00:31:59
day, but a fool every hour because if
00:32:02
the weather changes, it starts to rain, you won’t
00:32:04
have time to
00:32:05
collect everything you’ve been saving, so you’ve
00:32:09
grown it, it’s not dispersal and these are very
00:32:11
serious losses, so there were
00:32:14
special earings for cuckoos and if
00:32:18
the funeral of the cuckoo, the ritual funeral of the
00:32:21
cat was held during Trinity, it’s being
00:32:24
built family rituals of
00:32:27
spring and summer, then this is the earing on the
00:32:29
cannon, it was performed by calling on the help of
00:32:33
the ancestors and voiced it something like this, and I’m
00:32:38
not a doll, repent, yes, Nikolai, a penny, a
00:32:40
cat,
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and in the field, the field is clean, delivery
00:32:51
to me, wretched k, yes, help me,
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you are my dear mother
00:33:06
these are such strange strange accessible
00:33:10
quirks caused by the fact it is addressed it is
00:33:14
not for the recruit from it it is not for the girl’s
00:33:17
cash register it is not for the deceased
00:33:20
it is addressed to the souls of the ancestors who
00:33:23
were called upon as an invisible
00:33:26
force carried felt for these
00:33:30
field works and I think that if I
00:33:33
apologize, because usually this is how we said the
00:33:35
first sheaf, the youngest beautiful
00:33:37
girl comes out young women
00:33:41
anyway, at the same age there was, God forbid, cheese,
00:33:43
but mother and mother are nearby, but if a
00:33:47
song addresses mom, then this is apparently an appeal
00:33:50
to someone maternal, female, at
00:33:53
first there is no just to his mother and
00:33:56
somewhere there as you say to the image of
00:33:59
some distant
00:34:01
or ancestor or even a maternal
00:34:03
deity, it’s better this is something very ancient of
00:34:05
Dmitry I absolutely agree with you I did
00:34:07
n’t connect before it connected
00:34:09
right now if we have this
00:34:12
creation female who is capable of giving birth,
00:34:14
and this is mainly a
00:34:17
female genre, to be honest, I don’t know any of the
00:34:19
quirks of
00:34:20
the name known to have been recorded by reading
00:34:23
which you were performed by men, this is a
00:34:26
purely female path, a purely female share,
00:34:29
and this is the feminine principle about helping in the
00:34:32
works of the throne, both in the image
00:34:36
and in the word both in sound and in timbre
00:34:39
because this sound and, as it were, an echo from
00:34:44
space, it was of great importance in
00:34:46
traditional culture,
00:34:48
but let’s not forget about men,
00:34:51
because in the time before wives there was another
00:34:57
most interesting ritual, but we ourselves removed the
00:35:02
entire field without methodically having simply lost
00:35:07
not a single hour using daylight hours,
00:35:10
but in the western regions this is Pskov
00:35:14
Smolensk and also in the north of Russia
00:35:19
they left an
00:35:20
uncompressed piece about a meter by meter,
00:35:24
just imagine there are ears
00:35:26
of corn but no one touches them,
00:35:31
no one removes them,
00:35:32
another simple question arises: why did
00:35:36
they count what exactly there, in this uncompressed
00:35:39
meter of ears of grain,
00:35:41
throughout the whole rotation of the
00:35:45
entire annual cycle, the niva
00:35:49
field spirit will be stored in some cultures, among the
00:35:52
bolts, the Lithuanians
00:35:54
talk about a certain woman who needs to
00:35:57
braid her hair, but specifically
00:36:01
Gippius and Ewald they wrote down
00:36:05
actually plowed Chechurov my teacher they
00:36:07
recorded the
00:36:08
rituals that associated with beating the
00:36:10
beard of a field grandfather, they tell us about this
00:36:14
and the songs are recorded by another unique
00:36:16
collector, I managed to catch her at
00:36:18
the conservatory, this is Claudius
00:36:20
Georgievna of the Saint, this is the man who
00:36:22
collected a unique collection of Bryansk [ __ ],
00:36:24
it’s amazing and if we continue now, I
00:36:27
just remembered that the day before
00:36:30
leave the last
00:36:31
fathom of this bread everyone
00:36:34
said let's work we
00:36:36
drive out the bunny we chase the
00:36:39
bunny the edges of the field and when I was preparing for the
00:36:43
transfer it
00:36:44
turns out that the field god
00:36:46
everywhere from Russia
00:36:48
through Belarus to East Prussia in
00:36:51
France was depicted in the form of a hare in
00:36:54
France in the form dogs and this is all because of
00:36:57
this, then there in
00:36:59
Germany they even made the last sheaf in the form of a
00:37:02
hare, this is a Russian university for the sake of
00:37:04
Dmitry Konan and Hen our guests are
00:37:06
candidate of art history, professor of the
00:37:08
Moscow State Institute of
00:37:10
Music named after Schnittke Elena Aleksandrovna
00:37:12
Zaitseva and today we are talking about music, isn’t it
00:37:16
just this is not just the music of the folk
00:37:18
calendar, we are talking about the music of the harvest, don’t
00:37:22
switch further, it will only be
00:37:23
more interesting, let’s go, this is a Russian
00:37:28
university studio, Dmitry Konan Ahen,
00:37:30
our guest is a candidate of art history,
00:37:34
professor of the Moscow State
00:37:35
Institute of Music, or Anna Aleksandrovna
00:37:38
Zaitseva, we are talking about the music of the folk
00:37:41
calendar, let’s talk about that how peasants
00:37:45
chase a bunny during the harvest, this is that
00:37:48
special custom when the
00:37:51
bride leaves somewhere about one
00:37:54
square meter on the edge or soot on a sasha tree,
00:37:57
this is a little more
00:37:58
ears of corn that will go into the next
00:38:00
year, it will live there, as Elena Alexandrovna said,
00:38:03
the god is not you or he was often
00:38:06
depicted as a hare, or in France in the
00:38:09
form of a dog, the
00:38:12
ancient Greeks depicted him as a horse,
00:38:14
even then the sheaves were fresh in the form of these
00:38:18
animals, how
00:38:19
they went back to the first gods
00:38:21
long ago forgotten, the hare we drive the last
00:38:25
sheaf or the last communities it is necessary for the
00:38:28
beard who curled the beard Elena
00:38:31
Alexandra, I’ll try to
00:38:33
understand these animals a little and
00:38:35
differentiate them a little, as
00:38:37
for the bunny, the bunny or the rabbit is
00:38:41
different, they talked about Europe and I immediately
00:38:43
remembered Nuremberg, respectively, the city
00:38:48
in which
00:38:53
Albrecht Durer created his masterpieces, man atom, there is a
00:38:56
monument to the rabbit and the rabbit was a symbol
00:38:58
abundance of fertility and Dürer absolutely
00:39:02
brilliantly drew a rabbit where you can
00:39:04
literally see every
00:39:06
lint with a glass, but the rabbit and the bunny are, as I
00:39:11
already said,
00:39:13
reproduction is abundance,
00:39:15
however, the same grandfather who sat in the
00:39:19
meter and on the meter and not a compressed strip,
00:39:21
he rather looked like because this
00:39:25
grandfather, as our ancestors said, this
00:39:27
head had crumbs and had goat legs
00:39:33
because a goat, along with a hare, is another
00:39:37
very erotic and animal that is why
00:39:40
we are
00:39:41
born into a goat on carols, we turn out the fur coat, we
00:39:45
introduce the goat and ask to give her lard,
00:39:48
look how everything is mixed up, how everything is
00:39:51
interconnected, in this evil, powerful and
00:39:54
anthropologically powerful world, returning to
00:39:58
this grandfather, I would like to move on to songs to
00:40:02
songs, and because they did for this
00:40:04
grandfather, for this grandfather, they made that
00:40:06
kind of sacrifice for him, they brought him a jar of kvass,
00:40:10
espically protection, they baked a crust On the edge of the bread to
00:40:13
give birth to a new one, they again put the ears there to come out,
00:40:16
but the ears themselves were taken and
00:40:19
braided in the form of a beard or in the form of obliques and
00:40:22
sprinkled with earth,
00:40:24
just as when we want to evaluate a
00:40:27
currant bush, we bend a twig with earth and
00:40:30
sprinkle it with earth, so we
00:40:31
also did the same thing with the saints into a paste with
00:40:34
these ears,
00:40:35
but what do Bryansk and northern songs tell us about?
00:41:18
about life because it’s all the
00:41:25
same when you were burning from I beg your
00:41:27
pardon 2 I’ll return a little to this
00:41:28
anthropomorphic in the last snap, it turns
00:41:32
out that the ethnographer is a certain Nikolai
00:41:35
Fedorovich Suntsov and so throughout the 19th century he
00:41:37
brings dozhinki in the Penza and
00:41:39
Siberian provinces in which the last
00:41:42
sheaf
00:41:43
was called the birthday people they gave birth in a sundress
00:41:46
and a kokoshnik, no more no less, it’s still a
00:41:48
female image,
00:41:49
look, it’s still female about the group,
00:41:51
look at both male and female, it is very
00:41:53
intricately intertwined, both zoomorphic and
00:41:56
anthropomorphic, and by and large,
00:41:58
many things come together, but we’ve
00:42:02
gone through an hour through the main stages
00:42:05
to get one more harvest,
00:42:08
because if a person is elderly,
00:42:12
if he no longer has
00:42:15
relatives to help him, then the community will definitely help them
00:42:19
collect the harvest; this was the case with my grandmother
00:42:21
when we already lived in Moscow and we could not always
00:42:23
get into a car and quickly get them to
00:42:26
help her.
00:42:27
only later I realized that they were
00:42:29
helping and that is, the village helped the
00:42:31
elderly man and then the elderly
00:42:33
man always thanked the village,
00:42:35
but there were also special songs for this, above,
00:42:40
above, clear months until all the clouds are better
00:42:46
and better and our owner,
00:42:48
before all the men,
00:42:51
he knows how, he died in the field
00:42:58
he knows how to water he knows how to
00:43:01
honor books and then all the stages of
00:43:07
the beginning of the harvest with its first snap
00:43:10
round the end are clamped with you beating the
00:43:14
beard of the field grandfather with this
00:43:18
race of this bunny across the field by a
00:43:23
Lithuanian Lithuanian woman who
00:43:26
is placed on the field by
00:43:27
our as you say and Siberian and
00:43:31
Bryansk field grandfather who will
00:43:34
keep her this niva
00:43:35
because a man really has to
00:43:38
run after a woman, I’m looking at
00:43:42
what customs there were specifically for
00:43:44
stuffing the beard, it’s amazing this
00:43:48
beard is left here, this twisted beard
00:43:53
is saved for the beard, this is in the Kharkov
00:43:55
province of Peter Prokop with Gavrila
00:43:58
and Ilya and pantilimon also
00:44:01
leaves barley for the beard Maccabeus
00:44:03
at this time the magician collects poppy liber
00:44:06
cakes and also makes them for the beard and the most
00:44:09
pure for clothes and buckwheat in a circle for
00:44:13
clothes and oats for the royal
00:44:16
horse’s mane and this custom is recorded
00:44:19
in the Kharkov province of Volhynia, Podol
00:44:22
Kiev, Kherson,
00:44:23
Belarus and in Western Europe it’s the same thing,
00:44:27
you see how close we are,
00:44:29
you see how much is familiar, but it’s also
00:44:32
very important I don’t want to get ahead of myself and
00:44:35
I want to intrigue and attract our
00:44:36
radio listeners,
00:44:38
because I saved ah to them in August 3 and about the
00:44:43
Most Pure Mother of God,
00:44:46
which also means very what is important is the
00:44:51
veneration of the Mother of God and the Dormition
00:44:53
of the Mother of God and the Dormition fast, this will also all
00:44:55
happen in August, that is, we are united in our
00:44:59
culture, the
00:45:01
pre-Christian Christian culture is very interestingly intertwined,
00:45:03
but the most important thing I would like to
00:45:05
say is that on this holiday in these
00:45:08
works
00:45:09
and joys they are amazingly
00:45:11
intertwined
00:45:12
three hypostases of svarga, namely about his
00:45:17
life,
00:45:18
I am ours, they were all connected in order to
00:45:22
help a person, his family and people,
00:45:27
and tell Elena Alexander, after all, such a
00:45:30
labor feat is long and hard
00:45:34
work, I no longer take the words hard labor, you explained to me
00:45:38
taken to this work for in their own field, but
00:45:41
still how it was reflected in culture and
00:45:45
art, our artists, our poets,
00:45:48
our composers, they could simply pass by
00:45:52
such colossal
00:45:55
energy that at this moment
00:45:57
is splashed out by the people of the survey, it’s
00:46:00
huge and you understand, now you’ve
00:46:03
started talking about I just don’t know my
00:46:07
body, I felt this energy
00:46:09
because if you imagine, well, at least the
00:46:11
first sounds of Tchaikovsky’s harvest from the
00:46:15
seasons, this feeling of
00:46:17
really sickles of an amazing rhythm,
00:46:20
or if you remember the lines from Lev
00:46:24
Nikolaevich Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina where
00:46:27
Leuven admires the work of the peasants and
00:46:30
believes that the whole future lies in working
00:46:34
in the field, not to mention
00:46:37
Venetsianov, whom I adore, who has a huge
00:46:40
number of paintings dedicated to this topic, including the
00:46:42
famous painting of a threshing floor when he
00:46:46
painted, when he created this painting, he
00:46:49
gave it specifically so that
00:46:51
sunlight could penetrate, he took out the wall in order
00:46:54
to really depict ears of grain really
00:46:59
depict people and how many
00:47:01
amazing karts he has connected seedlings and
00:47:05
and reapers at the reaper with a sickle
00:47:09
she definitely resembles the queen because
00:47:13
her headdress and a woman she not only
00:47:16
wore a headdress because it’s
00:47:18
hot but she
00:47:19
needs a woman from her wedding to
00:47:24
her death there were to be closed heads
00:47:26
there were such rituals and ritual and order and
00:47:29
what amazing music the Serb creates with the
00:47:33
bending of ears of grain and grass, an absolutely
00:47:36
amazing picture Venetsianov has,
00:47:38
it’s called the reapers, we are always with my
00:47:41
students and with friends,
00:47:43
guess who it is, this is a young man and a girl, brother
00:47:48
and sister
00:47:49
and remember the twins, the myth in our conversation
00:47:53
in our program about the summer itself,
00:47:56
who are they, look how tender they are to each
00:47:58
other, their ears of corn, dear
00:48:01
radio listeners, be sure to find these
00:48:04
stunning paintings by Venetsianov marry
00:48:06
marry Gounod and of course the
00:48:10
painting called at the harvest
00:48:12
because here we already see part
00:48:16
it’s not selected in green, but part of
00:48:20
it is yellow, it’s still standing, it’s showing off,
00:48:23
and in the middle, putting aside the Serb, a woman is sitting,
00:48:28
she’s sitting with her
00:48:29
legs folded, absolutely straight with a straight
00:48:33
back, her back doesn’t get tired because
00:48:37
Mother Nature gives her strength and such
00:48:41
amazing works and on deck
00:48:46
hands artists and, of course, in the poems of our
00:48:49
great poets, including Sergei
00:48:51
Yesenin, in the music of a variety of
00:48:54
composers, for Haydn also has this, I
00:48:58
already mentioned it, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
00:49:00
that is, this theme of harvesting is personal
00:49:04
and it is general, it is joyful and you
00:49:07
will agree, it is beautiful and magnificent I
00:49:11
think that when we do the broadcast
00:49:13
in August and save for later even later
00:49:16
when we come to if you are talking about
00:49:19
how the music of sickles is reflected in
00:49:23
the music created by composers in I remember how
00:49:25
my two grandmothers taught me with a
00:49:28
hand flail milk the same thing and oats
00:49:32
oh I filled myself with bumps, dear
00:49:34
radio listeners, strictly 3 bumps
00:49:36
sat on that right eye on the left
00:49:39
eye and strictly in the center the assistant professor flew
00:49:42
into the forehead, but I remembered for the rest of my life
00:49:45
this rhythm of 2 flails when tah tah tah tah
00:49:48
tah then this one is so it turns you on, it captivates you,
00:49:52
we will talk about this music
00:49:53
separately because the
00:49:55
rhythm and rhythms
00:49:57
thresh the bread, everything connected with the
00:50:01
appearance of bread is then, first, the harvesting,
00:50:03
and now we need to save
00:50:09
this harvest in drops in the cops, and all this will
00:50:12
then fill our lives joyful
00:50:15
energies for the rest of the year
00:50:18
joyful rhythms
00:50:26
we will definitely definitely talk about it
00:50:28
this is Russian for the sake of the university dmitry
00:50:31
Konan and Khin Elena Aleksandrovna Zaitseva
00:50:33
Professor of the Moscow State
00:50:35
Institute of Music named after Schnittke we
00:50:38
tried, we talked about how both
00:50:41
Elijah’s Day and music are expressed in the music of the folk calendar
00:50:45
stubble and the music of the harvest
00:50:50
happiness to our bread Rob don’t get sick and
00:50:53
be happy take care of the bread
00:50:54
you buy in stores it comes from
00:50:57
labor and the enormous energy of our people
00:51:01
be happy all the best
00:51:03
goodbye I think it
00:51:07
turned out Elena Alexandrovna
00:51:10
I’m very interested in what you
00:51:12
found there I will definitely destroy it, read
00:51:15
this book, it’s hard to find it was what
00:51:19
you told about France, this is this
00:51:21
note,
00:51:22
this book was published in 90, the second year by
00:51:25
Ukrainian nationalists as a collection of
00:51:30
ethnographic
00:51:31
sketches of the life of the Ukrainian people, but
00:51:34
only two-thirds of the book is in pure
00:51:37
Russian because The ethnographers
00:51:40
were all Little Russians and they didn’t
00:51:42
know Ukrainian, and these reservations of theirs and these
00:51:45
folk ones simply show real
00:51:48
Little Russian speech, which is natural for me
00:51:50
and which of course
00:51:52
has nothing in common with Ukraine, but these
00:51:56
ethnographers’ sketches, they are very
00:51:58
interesting at home, will be of interest to you
00:52:00
because that the devil will break his leg here, spend it
00:52:03
in the form of Minsk and customs and about werewolves and
00:52:07
everything that just pleases,
00:52:09
but this is very relevant and it’s very
00:52:12
cool that we talk about Ukraine about
00:52:16
Little Russia, of course, because
00:52:18
we are one people, the directorate wishes all Ukrainians
00:52:21
who watch our program happiness, I’m
00:52:25
ending the broadcast, thank you very much,
00:52:27
Irina Alexandrovna, be happy,
00:52:30
all the best, our dear
00:52:33
viewers, goodbye mutually, see
00:52:35
you later, I stopped

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Выпуск 376. 31.07.2020. "Ильин день. Песни жатвы". Как кричит кукушка, как звенит серп, как стучат цепы, как шелестят колосья в снопах, что значит "гнать зайчика", где живёт дух нивы, почему божество урожая у славян заяц, а у французов собака, как ведьмы делают "закрутку" и почему в старину даже священники вырывали закрутку, покрывая руки епитрахилью - о всём многоголосье и многозвучье самого удивительного месяца, когда не то, что каждый день, каждый час на счету - ведь речь идёт о хлебе - смотрите и слушайте удивительный рассказ кандидата искусствоведения профессора Московского государственного института музыки им. Шнитке Елены Александровны Зайцевой. Премьера выпуска состоялась 31.07.2020.

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