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Water, joy and grief
tradition in Poland
In some Slavic countries people revoke the goddess of winter - Marzanna, who is a pagan figure associated with death, plague, winter, and rebirth. In the spring,
her power wanes, and as she dies
her power wanes, and as she dies
at the end of winter, a spring goddess is born. Drowning of the effigy is a symbolic celebration of the life reviving after winter and leaving calamities behind.
Joanna Lalowska