{"id":528,"date":"2020-06-29T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2020-11-20T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T01:21:08","slug":"easter-in-lower-lusatia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Easter in Lower Lusatia &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1D3Y54rZaQs\">VIDEO<\/a> I recently encountered (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/45421574897\/permalink\/10158286122654898\/\">Wendish \/ Sorbische of the World<\/a>), showing traditional Easter customs in Lower Lusatia, including of course the famous wax-resist decorated eggs.  It is in German, with English subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1D3Y54rZaQs\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video description says this video was made because it wouldn&#8217;t be practical for visitors to come see the Easter celebrations in person, in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summary of the topics (but really, watch the whole thing; it isn&#8217;t that long)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:25 wax resist eggs<br>3:00 scratch eggs<br>3:24 eggs decorated with colored wax<br>7:33 Easter bonfire <br> The straw figure of the &#8220;witch&#8221; is also in many places described as representing &#8220;winter&#8221; (visualized as a grouchy old woman &#8212; a memory of Morana, the goddess of winter, the embittered widow of the agricultural god who died at harvest).<br> 9:14 collecting Easter water<br>10:06 Easter singing<br>12:34 egg rolling <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would <em>you<\/em> let a class full of kindergartners use hot wax and live candles?  They are braver than I am!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the speakers describes her understanding of the symbolic patterns and colors on eggs:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>triangles -Holy Trinity<br>3 triangles together &#8211; family (mother, father, child) <br>wolf&#8217;s teeth (zig zags) &#8211; protection <br>honeycomb &#8211; hard work rewarded with good harvest<br>sun&#8217;s rays &#8211; warming power, light, good luck, happiness <br>blue &#8211; sky &#8211; future, faithfulness<br>red &#8211; sun &#8211; love, friendship, &#8220;everything good&#8221;<br>yellow &#8211; sun &#8211; power, prosperity   <br>green &#8211; hope, fertility, honesty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice VIDEO I recently encountered (via Wendish \/ Sorbische of the World), showing traditional Easter customs in Lower Lusatia, including of course the famous wax-resist decorated eggs. It is in German, with English subtitles. The video description says this video was made because it wouldn&#8217;t be practical for visitors to come see the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/?p=528\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easter in Lower Lusatia &#8211; Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nepenthe-farm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}