Author\'s doll-motanka Lelya

published on Mar 02, 11

Lelya ... Best among the most beautiful girls ... .. Ukraine has long been celebrated the day before George Lelya (Lyalya) or Red Hill (May 5) - one of the Red Flower of festivals, beginning with the day dances, playing the hills and valleys ... starts the spring and summer wedding season ... Girls choose from among themselves the best, most beautiful and absorb its Lele, weave garlands, and a round dance Leli ... Wreath of Leli keeps every girl to next spring, and that the branches or leaves, it was adorned Lelya, girls are allowed to go to the river and the water ... Playing with garlands, with oblation, expressions of wishes: this is nothing like zavorozhuvannya maiden beauty ... Lelya - a daughter of Lada, Old Church Slavonic Venus. Now it is clear why the role Leli, or Lyali should perform the best of the girls - because it is the daughter of the goddess of beauty! In Ukraine and still exists prsliv\'ya: \"Good as Lyalya\" sometimes, \"Doll\" in Belarus: \"comely as Lyalya.

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