Balkan Slavs : Traditional songs for the wife of the Slavic god PERUN. Dodola/Perperuna

#slavia #slavic #Slavicworld #Slavs #Slavictradition #Slavicunion #Slavicculture One soul, one people,one land ! Slava Slavia! The name Dodola is related to the Lithuanian dundulis, a word for thunder and another name for the Baltic god of thunder Perkūnas. Perun, Slavic god, one of the most powerful deities in Slavic mythology, creator of thunder and lightning, bearer of storms and rain, protector of fighters and leader of detachments during battle. Almost everywhere Perun is the supreme god. The ancient meaning of the names dodola / peperuda / prporushi connects them to the names of the thunder god Perun, his actions or epithets (cf. lit. dundulis - thunder, Latvian dūdina Pērkuonins - thunder), some scholars foresee the possibility that dzydzilelya enters dodola. The first written mention of the custom is that of Spiridon Gabrovski in “A Brief History of the Bulgarian Slavic People“, where it is described as a veneration of an image called Perun or butterfly, mistaken for a historical Bulgarian ruler: “And the Bulgarians revere this Perun: in the rainy season the young men and women gather together and choose one, either from the virgins or from the young men, they cover him with a net like a scarlet, and weave him a crown of weeds in the image of king Perun, and going from house to house, playing and singing often commemorating the devil of that, and watering both Perun and that, and themselves; but fools give them alms, buy food and drink, and eat, eat and drink to the glory of the Butterfly, and do so as they worship an idol ... “ He tells how, in times of drought, young boys and girls dressed one of their own in a net and a wreath of leaves bearing the likeness of Perun or Peperud, whom Spiridon mistakenly believed to be an old Bulgarian ruler. . They would then walk in procession around the houses, singing, dancing and pouring water on each other. The villagers gave them money, which they later used to buy food and drink to celebrate in Perun’s honor. Russian researcher Rybakov speculated that the name dodola comes from the word do-dol, which means a request for rain to “fall“. Its other name, Perperuna, refers to the Balto-Slavic thunder Perun. For this reason, some have speculated that Perperuda could have been his wife, which however has no confirmation in scholars associate the custom with the cult of the thunder and lightning god Perun, his woman or her female embodiment. The doublet name “dodola“ is compared to the Lithuanian word for thunder dundulis and to the Latvian expression dudina perkuonins (“thunder rumbles“). Dodola, Peperuda - in the Balkan tradition, the spring-summer rite of making it rain, as well as the central figure or participant in this rite. The name Dodola (and those close to it dudula, dodulica, dodolash, goigole, vadodule, etc.) is typical for Serbian, West Bulgarian and a number of regions of Macedonia, while in Croatia (Dalmatia, Primorye , Zhumberak, Krizhevtsy) the name of the rite and its participants - prporuse, preperuse, barbarusa, pepeluše. In most of the Bulgarian territory, as well as in the Macedonian and Eastern Serbian regions, the name peperuda (peperuna, peperuga, pemperuga, perperun, preperuna, etc.), in Romania - paparuda, păpăluga. The rite is also known in Greece and Albania. The name of the Dodola rite is associated with the beginnings and refrains of southern Slavic songs performed during the rite (in Serbian. “Oj dodo, oj dodole“; . “Oh, dodule, God forbid, doge!“) ; and bulge. peperuda “butterfly“ - to the song associated with the flight of a butterfly asking God to rain (“Peperuda lated / as she prayed to God / Give me, O God, dreben djd ...“). In short, some people forget that Perun is not only the god of warriors of battles, of thunder ... Perun is also obviously a god of fertility. Thunderstorms thunder storms often bring rain. In short, for Perun’s wife or for Perun himself. In any case, this is linked to Perun. Music intro : Last video : Zbor Čipkice - Oj Dodole mili bože Last video music: