The Golden Egg // Hand painted golden wooden eggs // Design motifs on pysanky date back to pre-Christian times – While the symbols have remained through the ages, interpretation has changed. .
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A triangle that once spoke of the three elements, earth, fire & air, now celebrates the Christian Holy Trinity. Sun & star symbols once referred to Dazhboh, the sun god, & now refer to the Christian God. .
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Even so, under this Christian veneer, there still lurk the berehynia & the serpent, the sun & the moon, the old gods, the old ways, & the old beliefs. .
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Spring is coming! I have Pysanka decorating kits at #TheWitchery.ca! Many superstitions were attached to pysanky, they were thought to protect households from evil spirits, catastrophe, lightning and fires. Eggs with spiral motifs were the most powerful, as the demons and other unholy creatures would be trapped within the spirals forever. A blessed pysanka could be used to find demons hidden in the dark corners of your house.
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There were also superstitions regarding the colors and designs on the pysanky. One old Ukrainian myth centered on the wisdom of giving older people gifts of pysanky with darker colors and/or rich designs, for their life has already been filled. Similarly, it is appropriate to give young people pysanky with white as the predominant color because their life is still a blank page. Girls would often give pysanky to young men they fancied, and include heart motifs. It was said, though, that a girl should never give her boyfriend a pysanky that has no design on the top and bottom of the egg, as this might signify that the boyfriend would soon lose his hair. .
These eggs hold powerful magic, and had to be disposed of properly, lest a witch get a hold of one. She could use the shell to gather dew, and use the gathered dew to dry up a cow’s milk. The witch could also use bits of the eggshell to poke people and sicken them. The eggshell had to be ground up very finely or broken into pieces and tossed into a running stream. The cloth used to dry pysanky was powerful, too, and could be used to cure skin diseases. And it was considered very bad luck to trample on a pysanka–God would punish anyone who did with a variety of illnesses.
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The kits I offer have 1 traditional kistka (medium), 6 dyes (yellow, orange, scarlet, light blue, light green, black), beeswax, instructions, and 21 designs. .
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