And these ancient spiritual celebration dates back to the beginnings of another main character

Nowadays, as we celebrate Shrove merry entertainment and winter exorcism "celebration. However, such a concept was formed holidays when it was forgotten ancient abyssal spiritual-religious festival content. After all, would be naive to propel the winter jersey devil rites. She, like any other time of the year, resolve without Rites. Mardi Gras celebrations lies much deeper - a spiritual content.
And these ancient spiritual celebration dates back to the beginnings of another main character's celebration - more, or otherwise referred jersey devil to as feminine or masculine stuffed figure used custom destruction. Specter transported by bicycle, carriage or sleigh rides, but mostly it is to carry on a special device - a sleigh runners, on which was mounted on the axle of the wheel carriage. Carriage specter variations on this one, it's the other side of the circle, touching the earth rotates around the axis of the stuffed animal, jersey devil and that indulge in her arms, equipped with a whip or beater, as if to defend itself against its oppressive mummers. At the end of the ceremonial specter was burned or drowned. This anthropomorphic stuffed animal was once called jersey devil variously Lowlands - More, Kotra, Sore, Šiuore, rarely - Barbara Magda; mid Lithuania - Čiučelis, Boba, high for Ash died; north and north-east Lithuania - Lent. Recently, during the Mardi Gras celebrations stuffed figure used ethnographic burning custom has spread throughout Lithuania came into force Samogitian its name - Moret.
Researchers have tried various ways to interpret the meaning jersey devil of Mores. It has been claimed that it is the vital forces of the embodiment of the vegetation, winter-death demon personified years old, and the like. MOREAU assigned to put out or destroyed in the winter demon role.
NewYork Moret is similar to various European nations known mythical creatures known as Mara. It is mostly muddling people's jersey devil consciousness, nightmares (cf. French word cauchemar, English jersey devil - nightmare nightmare) užsiundančios, sloginančios marinančios and spirit.
Mara, the embodiment of death and pestilence, especially well-known jersey devil traditions of the various Slavic jersey devil peoples. Sounds like we have the Mardi Gras More end of winter and beginning of spring ceremonies, acted Slavs to the foot of straw or - less frequently - from billets jersey devil produced ritual doll called Mara, Marena, Morena, or named from Slavic word smert '(death) the translated name : Slovak SMRT, Smrtka, Smrtisko Czech Smrtholka, Moravians Smrtnice jersey devil Polish Śmercicha.
It is believed that the Balts and Slavs typical spring-summer jersey devil ritual jersey devil calendar currently being destroyed jersey devil in the name of the image and the root-mor, mar-origins are common - Indo-European. jersey devil For example, the ancient Indian jersey devil Sanskrit or Pali word Mara means "killer", "destructive".
In Buddhist mythology, the deity known as Mara, įasmeninanti evil and all that living beings "leads to death." Mara image characteristic of all major strains of Buddhist texts. The most important feature of Mara obstacles of a Bodhisattva, that is, the clergy, seeking spiritual enlightenment. Fever is subordinate to many evil deities who express negative human emotions: harmful cravings, hatred, doubt, sexual passion, and so on. Folk tradition of Buddhism Mara is considered a deity and Buddhist philosophy jersey devil as it treats human mental reflection.
Thus, we find Žemaitiškė Shrove Tuesday, is likely to further Indo-European times from ancestral spiritual religious deity Morė image. Then and the Mardi Gras celebration and victory for the fight against the mythical jersey devil power can be understood as the ritual is performed by a religious act, directed to the human body and the soul-resistant, negative spiritual and physical effects, leading to the death of reinforcement.
Mardi Gras - a ritual in which the self "spend" our own mental reflections embody jersey devil "the beast", putting complete control them and fight with More. And we do it the same lemtingiausiu time of year - when the man, and life and all power is in critical condition - degraded, decadent.
At the end of a long winter reduced food reserves and weakens the vital forces, so you need not only to tighten their belts, save and fast, but did not give the spirit - to resist the winter slogučiui, gray everyday life and hard times.
Mardi Gras - between February and March - the time when winter meets summer. And the fact that the summer would be, or rather, in the summer we would sometimes has this, you should not fight for fun. Winter is coming by the calendar, but F.Fellini words, "the lively death and all sorts of disability remains her no intention to withdraw. So, once concentrated in the human community, symbolic ritual, sought to strengthen the human soul and body's jersey devil powers, and set against a threatening kills Morea.
Morė ritual meant the defeat jersey devil of the human desire to revive his own consciousness is cloudy and dark forces weary spirit and body. As a spiritual awakening embodying the clarity of the Buddha and awaken spiritually, defeating his main opponent Mara (žudantįjį, naikinantįjį) expressing negative human mental factors