Ivan Kupalo

[Константин Граве]

One observation:
though the name of the god is Kupalo, the correct spelling of the event's name is Ivan Kupala (Ночь на Ивана Купалу -- Ivan Kupala's Eve?).

See http://encycl.accoona.ru/?id=22999 for brief definition, http://myths.kulichki.ru/enc/item/f00/s18/a001870.shtml and
http://vologda.kp.ru/daily/otdoxni/doc27255/ for more detailed
information on the subject.
Also worth seeing the respective episode from "Andrei Rublev" by Tarkovski

KG

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr Joshua Wilson <philosopherking1848 at YAHOO.COM>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 04:07:19 -0700
Subject: [SEELANGS] Ivan Kupalo

>
> Could someone help me with some of the imagry of this
> slavic holiday?
>
> I know that Kupalo was a god (or goddess) of
> vegitation who was worshiped on Midsummer's Eve and
> from what I can tell the "Ivan" must have added when
> the Orthodox Church tried to convert the celebration
> to one in honor of John the Babtist and the dvoeverie
> kicked in.
>
> Or was the doll that is ritually dismembered and
> burned for the fest called "Ivan Kupalo" before that?
> Was he some sort of god-everyman perhaps - a Christ
> figure of sorts symbolizing salvation by bringing a
> good harvest?  Or, if the doll was not Ivan before
> that, were they actually symbolically killing a god on
> the fire?
>
> Josh Wilson
>
>
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