Marzanna facts for kids

Effigy of Morana (Death Goddess). Czech Republic.

Marzanna. Poland.

Marzanna (in Polish), Marena (in Russian), Morana (in Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian), or Morena or Kyselica (in Slovak), Morena (in Macedonian), Maslenitsa (in Russia) and also Mara (in Belarusian and Ukrainian), Maržena, Moréna, Mora or Marmora, Morė (in Lithuanian) is the goddess of death and winter in Slavic paganism. In many Slavic countries, it is very popular to burn a doll, that represents Marzanna, when it's beginning of spring.

Images for kids

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  Marzanna Mother of Poland: modern imagination of goddess by Marek Hapon

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  Marzanna dolls are thrown into the Brynica; Miasteczko Śląskie, 2015

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  In many parts of Central and Eastern Europe the procession to departs from the village with a Marzanna effigy, returns home with bouquets of green twigs called gaik (literally: copse).

See also

In Spanish: Morana (diosa eslava) para niños