Girls dancing "Кривий танець" (Wavy, Curvy dance), a ritual dance which was in the past performed at the beginning and the end of the Easter celebrations in the Kyiv region of Ukraine...
Anatoly Bogorod, from the Museum of Ivan Gonchar says that "According to most researchers..."Wavy, Curvy Dance", due to the imitation of wave-like movement, was intended to magically influence the filling of rivers and streams with the water released by the spring snowmelt...
The dancing choir was formed from the young girls who already had their first period, young maidens. This links the young girls period with the young (spring) earth period, snowmelt...
Another Pre Christian spring custom, which was added to the Easter celebrations.
Interesting thing here is the wavy line symbolising flowing water...
Like on this, the end of the 3rd, beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, Bactrian, perfume or cosmetic bottle, depicting winged goddess among flowering tulips. Bactrian, the end of the 3rd, beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, Louvre Museum...
I talked about this object in my post "Tulip goddess"...
Or on these Neolithic pottery shards found in Iran, depicting leopard, animal which mates when the snowmelt starts...
I talked about this in my post "Spots and stripes"...
Or on this Sumerian seal depicting Enki in his flood boat...
I talked about this in my post "Rain and flood"...
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