The tradition in Veliki Traven / May

We meet Lado several times in spring and summer songs.The girls, who also walked and sang ritual songs in Slovenia around the villages in the period from the beginning of spring to the summer solstice, were once called “ladarice”. Lada is supposed to indicate a bridesmaid in the original sense of the word. According to […]

April (Mali Traven) and the Green Jurij

Freshness, new beginnings, action, drive, birds chirping, livestock grazing, active energy, creative start to work in the fields, greenery, love, joy, health, optimism. The predominance of light over darkness. All this is marked by Jarilo or. Jarnik, the spring god rising from the underworld. In a new guise, we know him as Green Yuri. Its […]