Spring Traditions - Easter Traditions, Holi, Easter Egg, Easter Bunny, Egg Decorating, Lieldienas, Hiranyakashipu, Marzanna, Pysanka (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Easter traditions, Holi, Easter egg, Easter Bunny, Egg decorating, Lieldienas, Hiranyakashipu, Marzanna, Pysanka, Golden Rose, Holy Fire, Kumauni Holi, Easter Drama, M r i or, Egg rolling, Martenitsa, Hola Mohalla, Maslenitsa, Bottle-kicking, Egg dance, Radonitsa, Prahlada, Egg tapping, Vasant Panchami, Baba Marta, Holy Week procession, Burning of Judas, May Morning, Holika, Pace Egg play, Pisanka, Traditional Easter games and customs, Easter postcard, Easter Fire, Egg tossing, Lath mar Holi, Spring cleaning, Buergbrennen, Pussy willow, Egg decorating in Slavic culture, Clipping the church, wi conka, Egg hunt, Fasika, Sunrise service, Easter Sepulchre, Rouketopolemos, Pisanica, Saitopolemos, Easter Bilby, Dol Purnima, Cascarones, Pagwa, Pizho and Penda, Gair dance, Ajil-e Moshkel-gosha. Excerpt: A pysanka (Ukrainian: , plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated using a wax-resist (batik) method. The word comes from the verb pysaty, "to write," as the designs are not painted on, but written with beeswax. The word pysanka refers specifically to an egg decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs, and is not a generic term for any egg decorated using wax resist. Many other eastern European ethnic groups, decorate eggs using wax resist for Easter. These include the Belarusians (, pisanka), Bulgarians (, pisano yaytse), Croats (pisanica), Hungarians (himestojas), Czechs (kraslice), Lithuanians (margutis), Poles (pisanka), Romanians (ou vopsite, incondeiate or impistrite), Serbs (pisanica), Slovaks (kraslica), Slovenes (pisanica, pirhi or remenke) and Sorbs (jejka pisa ). A mix of modern, diasporan and traditional Ukrainian pysanky. Pysanka is often taken to mean any type of decorated egg, but it specifically refers to an egg created by the written-wax batik method and utilizing traditi...