What is the date of the Red Hill in 2016? Traditions and fortune telling on the Red Hill
The Red Hill was celebrated from pagan times. It was a national holiday with round dances, songs and festivities dedicated to the coming of spring. In the Orthodox tradition on this day, Jesus Christ appeared to St. Thomas, who does not believe in the resurrection of the Savior from the dead. Hence one more name of the holiday - Fomin day.
Red Hill in 2016 - what number?
Find out how many days a holiday falls easily. Orthodox Christians celebrate it 7 days after Easter. Since this year the date of the celebration of the Bright Resurrection falls on May 1, Krasnaya Gorka 2016 or as it is also called, Antipascha, falls on May 8.
Traditions on the Red Hill
To the Red Hill different rituals are dated. The combination of ritual traditions with Christian morality made the holiday truly beautiful and bright. In addition to the rituals of celebrating the spring, the church attended the day, after which the folk festivals with round dances and spring songs were held. The women presented them with colored eggs and prepared hearty treats.
The most popular was the rite of fertility,which was a guardian, protecting against drought, crop failure, bug infestation and various ills. To accomplish this, women harnessed into the plow and made a furrow around the village. The cross, obtained at the closure of the circle, was a good sign, like a deep rut, symbolizing protection from diseases and all the bad.
Antipas was considered a day favorable forDating with a widow or a spouse, so sitting at home was a bad omen. Traditionally, girls and boys demonstrated their talents and skills. Also, a ceremony was held for happiness, when the peasants arranged for the skating of eggs from the hill. Happiness and luck awaited those whose eggs rolled smoothly and did not break at the finish.
Today, as in the old days, Fomin daynot only in villages where traditions are still strong, but also in large cities. Spring fairs, theatrical events of Christian and pagan subjects are held. On this day begins Radonitsa or parental days, when they remember the deceased relatives. Despite the sadness of the event, it is very spiritual, bright and kind.
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Divination by the Red Hill
According to the pagan tradition, this holiday is celebratedto guess. Do not miss this day. To find out the number of the holiday, look at the church calendar. The Red Hill of 2016, dropped this year on May 8, will be a good excuse to learn about your future destiny. Most often, fortune telling is related to the search for the other half.
Guessing on eggs
You need to take a chair or a stool, put on it a board of a meter length, about 25 cm wide. Take two painted eggs, write your initials and your favorite on them, and put them on the board.
if the eggs have safely rolled down and stayed near, but beloved to the end of their days will be together, they will have a happy and strong family;
the scattered eggs mean parting;
if one egg slipped to the side, and the other came to an end, then the one whose initials were on the first egg will throw the second.
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Guessing on buckwheat
At the festive meal you need to scoop up, notlooking, a spoonful of buckwheat porridge and putting it in a bag prepared in advance, then put under your bed. In the morning after the Red Hill, consider it. If the porridge is crumbly without black grains, then wait for the wedding. If the porridge without impregnations, but fused with a lump, in the near future you will be burdened by heavy, full of uncertainties, relationships. The lack of novels and changes in his personal life promises friable buckwheat with black grains.
Guessing on millet porridge
Take a full spoonful of porridge, take it to a deserted yard and leave it. In an hour, come back.
Completely eaten porridge predicts an early wedding.
If only a part is eaten, you will not marry, but you will have an affair.
Untouched porridge says that personal life will not change.
Wedding on the Red Hill
According to the pagan faith, the symbol of the wedding was Godthe sun Ireno. The alliances on this day received a heavenly blessing, they were sanctified by the Sun, giving the newlyweds abundant offspring, love, wealth and family happiness. According to the old tradition on this date, there are many weddings. The Red Hill 2016 will not be an exception. The wedding on the eighth day after the end of Lent should bring a happy and long life to the newlyweds. This is the first day in the calendar, when priests are allowed to marry young people after prolonged bodily and spiritual abstinence.
