Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Kostromo" | Russian | Kostrubonko - A dying-and-ressurecting spring fertility-god. Russian |
God name "Kostrubonko" | Russia | God of spring. "...in Little Russia it used to be the custom at Eastertide to celebrate the funeral of a being called Kostrubonko, the deity of the spring. A circle was formed of singers who moved slowly around a girl who lay on the ground as if dead, and as they went they sang: |