Marzanna
Marzanna (in Polish), Marena (in Russian), Morana (in Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian), or Morena or Kyselica (in Slovak), Kiszehajtás (in Hungarian), 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.
Marzanna Media
Marzanna Mother of Poland: modern imagination of goddess by Marek Hapon
- Vynášanie Marmurieny vyše kostola.jpg
Removal of Marmouren. Slovakia
- Topienie Marzann w Brynicy.jpg
Marzanna dolls are thrown into the Brynica; Miasteczko Śląskie, 2015
- Topienie Marzanny w Miasteczku Śląskim - 21 marca 2015 06.jpg
In many parts of Central and Eastern Europe the procession to departs from the village with a Morana effigy, returns home with bouquets of green twigs called gaik (literally: copse).
