Water Rituals in the Ukraine and Slavic Countries

Territories in Question: Routes in Territories
By Olga Porytskaya
English

In Ukrainian collective consciousness water symbolism is very present and ambivalent too. Bringing both life and death, being both a medium of divination and communication with the beyond water and its related symbolism form a complex of meanings illustrated by numerous rituals.

Keywords

  • Ukraine
  • water
  • ritual
  • divination
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