January 13-14: How Russians celebrate the nostalgic traditional Old New Year
According to the Russian tradition:
Happy Old New Year, and wishing everyone much prosperity & abundance in 2017!
The nostalgic and fun holiday, called The Old New Year, is celebrated on January 13-14 in all of the Russian World.
The traditions for this cool holiday include a very generous table, brimming with traditional Russian foods, such as large, round Russian bliny served with butter, honey, various preserves and caviar, as well as sweets, fruits and Russian tea from the colorful samovar. Groups of well-wishers, dressed in traditional Russian outfits, walk around their village or neighborhood and throw seeds, beans or grains mixed with money, to wish their neighbors and friends prosperity and abundance. This is called ‘Schedrikha’ : the abundance sharing ritual.
It’s also traditional to have sled snow rides, the pinnacle of which are the Russian troika rides: troika means three horses riding as one. People also have snow fights, build snow men and snow or ice terema (castles).
After the Schedrikha ritual another ritual would be performed: burning a stack of hay, which symbolizes burning away any old and hamful energy. As the hay burns, Russians join hands and dance around the fire in the traditional Russian Khorovod. Then, the bravest leap over the burning hay. This seals the ritual, symbolizing the surmounting of any life’s difficulties.
This video is from Tiraspol, Pridnestrovie, where traditions are alive and well. Some of the customs, table and Russian attire start at 0:10 and continue at 0:40.
Pridnestrovie (often referred to in the West as Transnistria) is the breakaway republic of the former Moldavia (Moldova), which proclaimed its intention to join Russia.
I explain a lot about Moldova and Pridnestrovie in this 2014 video on my YT channel:
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Posted on January 13, 2017, in Russia and tagged abundance, ESR8: BLACK SEA GAMBIT, Lada Ray Youtube channel, LadaRayLive, Moldova, Pridnestrovie, prosperity, Russian bliny, Russian Khorovod, Russian Orthodoxy, Russian traditions, Russian troikas, samovar, Schedrikha, The Old New Year, Tiraspol. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
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Thought you all might like this post! According to the 100-year-old Russian tradition: Happy Old New Year, and wishing everyone much prosperity and abundance in the Year 2017!
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I have never heard of this wonderful celebration. Sounds like a good way to let go of the past and welcome the new things in your life. Loved the video, even though my Russian isn’t good enough to translate it. But I got a feel for what was being said.
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Beautiful!
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I’ve come across a couple of posts regarding propitious synchronicities & numerology analysis on Trump’s Inaugural date & Russia. On 12/22/16 Hawaiian blogger, Kualapele did a post on the extraordinary number of 7’s surrounding January 20th (Inauguration) & 21st (1st day in office) along with beneficent interpretations.
https://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/these-trump-numbers-are-fascinating-777-and-77/
Today January 13 blogger, “James the Russian” at RogueMoney posted another #7 synchronicity involving Trump’s wife, Melania & the Russian Orthodox calendar. All this in context of ongoing attempts to delegitimize Trump specifically involving Russia – Claims Russia hacked the election, Russia attempted to take down Vermont electric grid; Senate announced today investigating Trump-Russia ties, US/NATO saber rattling toward Russia.
Seven Days Before the Inauguration: Orthodox Christian Saints Day of St Melania the Nun of Rome.
https://www.roguemoney.net/stories/2017/1/13/7daysbefore-flotusmelaniatrump-saintmelaniasday
**Many observers in the new media have noticed an intriguing numerological ‘stat’ regarding the inauguration of president elect Donald J. Trump: After he is sworn in on January 21, 2017 he will be 70 years, 7 months and 7 days old. But there’s another ‘coincidence’ we just discovered about Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania Knauss (Knavs), who was born in the predominantly Roman Catholic country of Slovenia, in the former Yugoslavia on April 26, 1970 (and will be 46 when her husband takes office).
Today Friday, January 13, exactly seven days before Inauguration Day, happens to be the feast day under the old Russian Orthodox calendar of Melania’s patron saint, Melania of Rome.**
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Kualapele’s post notes: “Number 7 resonates with the the ‘Collective Consciousness’, spiritual awakening and awareness, spiritual enlightenment, spiritual acceptance and development, mysticism, intuition and inner-knowing, inner-wisdom.”
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Some great traditions to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new. All the best for 2017, Lada.
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Thank you, Darlene. And best wishes to you, too 🙂
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Thanks for your messages and communications hap-pi 13-14 january
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This is a big deal coming from the lady who will probably be France’s next president… as cited by the UK’s Independent yesterday:
“Marine Le Pen has given her backing to Vladimir Putin’s claims over Crimea, insisting the widely condemned 2014 annexation was not “illegal”.
In an interview with French channel BFM TV, the French far-right leader sided with the Kremlin in a dispute that has contributed to the worst East-West ties for decades.
Asked for her views on the diplomatic crisis, Ms Le Pen, who leads the Front National in France and is a candidate in April’s presidential election, said: “I absolutely disagree that it was an illegal annexation: a referendum was held and residents of Crimea chose to rejoin Russia.”
Mr Putin’s forces swept into the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in February 2014.
The Kremlin organised a referendum a month later which saw more than 95 per cent of voters in Crimea back joining Russia.
The British Government branded the referendum “farcical” and “illegitimate”.
Russia was subsequently hit with sanctions and fierce criticism by the EU and UN as well as national governments including the UK and France.
Russian military activity in Crimea
However, the far-right candidate, who has promised to work more closely with Mr Putin if she wins the presidency on April 17, said she saw no reason to dispute the result of the referendum.
“I see no grounds whatsoever to question this referendum,” she said.
Asked if she viewed Crimea as a part of Russia, Ms Le Pen replied, “Yes.” ”
Ms. Le Pen also went on to say that Russia never invaded Ukraine and that it was overthrown by means of an illegal coup de etat staged by the West… and she named names that we are all familiar with.
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Great! And she is right. Le Pen is the only one with balls and that’s why she deserves to be French prez!
EXCEPT: Russian forces never ‘swept’ into Crimea in Feb 2014: 16k Russian troops were already stationed there, per UN sanctified Russia-Ukraine legal agreement. The majority of stationed there Ukro troops – 20k altogether – switched to Russian side between Feb and May 2014.
It was the Kiev propaganda, spread around by West’s MSM, that made everyone believe that Russian troops were there illegally.
Western propaganda never sleeps; manipulations and lies are always inserted into pieces like this one.
Watch out for the new Oliver Stone movie on Ukraine – A TRUTH BOMB FOR THE WEST FROM UNLIKELY SOURCE! Already shown in Russia and Europe, it won the Venice Film Festival award. Looks like UK and US banned it!
I’ll see if I can get the video to post on FT!
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Thank you for clarifying the part about Russia swooping into Crimea when, in fact, they were already stationed there. Well, when you got a deadline there’s bound to be some collateral truth damage :(. . Hope you can get that movie video posted. Thanks, Superstar, for all that you do.
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