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Didukh, the Glossary

A didukh (дідух), is a Ukrainian Christmas decoration; made from a sheaf of wheat, it is a symbolic sacrifice taken from the autumn harvest.^[1]

8 relations: Christmas decoration, Harvest, Maslenitsa, Sacrifice, Sheaf (agriculture), Ukraine, Veneration of the dead, Wheat.
Christmas decorations
Christmas in Ukraine
Ukrainian traditions

Christmas decoration

A Christmas decoration is any of several types of ornamentation used at Christmastide and the greater holiday season. Didukh and Christmas decoration are Christmas decorations.

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Harvest

Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops.

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Maslenitsa (Масленіца; Мaсленица; Пущаня; Масляна or Масниця), also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual. Didukh and Maslenitsa are Ukrainian traditions.

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Sacrifice

Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship.

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Sheaf (agriculture)

A sheaf (sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.

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