DODOLE ( Serbian rain dance ) oldest Slavic tradition

"Dodole" songs are typical ritual songs used to perform during summer dry seasons. Young girls masked themselves with branches and leaves (as symbol of vegetation exuberance).They used to visit village houses and perform "dodole" ritual (singing "dodole" songs and dancing ritual dance).As respond to a ritual performance, the master of the house would come out from house and throw some water on dancers, which is ancient way of invoking the spirits of rain. "Dodole" ritual originates from pre-Christian times and represents the oldest Slavic tradition.


POKLADE (Mardi Gras)
The months of January and February are the time of carnival throughout the country. Dancers appear wearing fantastic masks, sometimes more than six feet tall, decorated at the top with bird wings and feathers, heads of animals, as well as mirrors and colored streamers. Covered with sheep skins and armed with long clubs and wooden swords, they leap and jump to the deafening sound of drums and the cattle bells on their belts. In some areas the men blacken their faces and wear womens overdresses to perform these carnival dances that drive out evil winter demons and ensure health and good crops.
In some ways the carnival custom of Serbia(Republika Srpska) is the most spectacular and colorful of all the ritual dance events. Performed mainly during the week before Lent, the festival in its entirety may last for a good part of February, beginning sometimes as early as January.

Prevelj was a ritual-dance enacted around a fire for the peace of dead souls. A large bonfire was built and each family who had had a recent death, would carry a log to this fire in dedication to their dead relative. The women were not usually allowed to be present at this event, but sometimes one woman would steal toward the fire and touch it with her spindle as a symbolic gesture. The dancing around the fire would get under way as soon as the musicians had first played a somber piece to which there was no dancing. The villagers would stand around the fire holding on to each other by their waistbands, while the mourners who did not dance, held lighted candles. The kolovodja, or leader of the kolo, held a long rod or staff in his right hand, and as soon as the fire died down, would call out to the line of dancers to jump over the fire. Those who wouldnt jump might be admonished by means of his large staff. Today the custom of jumping over the fire is largely dying out, through dancing around bonfires is still popular.
LAZAR

The week before Easter, Serbians living near Sredska celebrate Lazarus Saturday. A group of six girls, one of whom masquerades as Lazar (Lazarus), and another as Lazarka (the female equivalent), go from house to house singing and dancing. The girl who is Lazar wears a mans white shirt and a mans hat decorated with flowers. In his hands he carries a staff or sometimes an umbrella. The Lazarka wears a necklace of golden coins, and on her head, money, greens, and garlic to scare away evil spirits. The girls carry two baskets; in one they collect beans, in the other, eggs. After dancing in front of each house, they sing songs to bless the head of each house­hold,

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[natubetu]

....one stvari i krompirace!!! Tekst ok, muzika modernizovana, a na fotografijama svega ima samo dodola nema. Cek mi se cini da nisu sve slike iz srbije vec da ima malo bugarskih sireara i hrvatskih busa, al  ajd to manje - vise... Budite oprezni... autenticnost je u etnologiji jaaako vazna!

[Sonnet1815]

Лепо сам написала да нису само додоле него и покладе у питању .

Хвала и поздарв

[velimirbanjanac]

dolična ideja, super

samo mala zamerka, na slikama se nalaze koledari(maske) oni ne pripadaju dodolama, koje su prizivale kišu, već su se "izvodili" oko božića i izvodeći magiske rituale domaćinu izražavali prostosrdačne želje

u dodole su išle devojke

a u koledare, maskirani muškarci

[Sonnet1815]

Па то сам написала ради се о Белим покладама

поздрав

[dusan1322]

Oi Dodo, oi dodole!

Send a downpour of sharp rain

Oi dodo, oi dodole!

To soft bedew afresh the fields

Oi dodo, oi dodole

And so renew the stream of life

[Karelipican]

pa iako nema dodola ovo je najlepsa pesma na svetu

[JimmyBarca]

@Shaolinguru1 Потражи Слободан Тркуља или Василиса или Биља Крстић..

Или погледај на мом каналу плејлисту Српска/Словенска

[FluffyInu13]

jel' ovo peva slobodan trkulja?

[XSephonX]

Esta bien chida la cancion!

[lurkymerc179]

I love it

[Lu3Zak]

@natubetu

Autentičnost? I ja je tražim , u našim prostorima - težak zadatak...

osim ako je oblast geografski tako odvojena, kao Resini ( ?Slovenci? u svakom slučaju Slavensko pleme ) u brdskom klancu ... to je danas, skoro pa nemoguče očekivati...

Dakle ostaje mješavina- koja zna bit veoma atraktivna, čak poželjna, obogačujuča, na život održivajuča - a možda je baš to ono najvažnije !?... ma, eto samo onako naglas razmišljam ... pozdrav iz Dalmacije...

[Shaolinguru1]

@Sonnet1815 jel mozes da mi kazes gde si nasla pesmu i da li ima jos ovakvih.....predivno

[NitrousOxideYiff]

i´d like if you can share the majestic lyrics of this Ritual n_n!

[Goha22041983]

Zakochałam się od pierwszych dźwięków:)

[SlavicPatriota]

slavic soul :)