Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Pysanka

Index Pysanka

A pysanka (писанка, plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist method. [1]

65 relations: Acrostic, Alberta, Alum, Batik, Baturyn, Beeswax, Belarusians, Bulgarians, Canting, Carpathian Mountains, Chernihiv, Christianity, Croats, Crucifix, Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, Czechs, Doves as symbols, Dyeing, Easter, Easter egg, Egg decorating in Slavic culture, Exoskeleton, Genista tinctoria, Haematoxylum campechianum, Holy Spirit in Christianity, Hungarians, Hutsuls, Ichthys, Ivan Mazepa, Julian calendar, Kiev, Kievan Rus', Kosmach, Lithuanians, Lviv, Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of Jesus, Mordant, Natural dye, Nelson Thornes, Painting, Paska (bread), Peter the Great, Pisanica (Croatian), Pisanka (Polish), Poles, Polish cochineal, Prayer, Pysanka Museum, Romanians, ..., Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Rusyns, Scribe, Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Sorbs, Stylus, Swastika, Syncretism, Ukraine, Ukrainian embroidery, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian historical regions, Ukrainians. Expand index (15 more) »

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.

New!!: Pysanka and Acrostic · See more »

Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

New!!: Pysanka and Alberta · See more »

Alum

An alum is a type of chemical compound, usually a hydrated double sulfate salt of aluminium with the general formula, where X is a monovalent cation such as potassium or ammonium.

New!!: Pysanka and Alum · See more »

Batik

Batik (Javanese: ꦧꦠꦶꦏ꧀) is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique originated from Indonesia.

New!!: Pysanka and Batik · See more »

Baturyn

Batúryn (Бату́рин), is a historic town in Chernihiv Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine.

New!!: Pysanka and Baturyn · See more »

Beeswax

Beeswax (cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis.

New!!: Pysanka and Beeswax · See more »

Belarusians

Belarusians (беларусы, biełarusy, or Byelorussians (from the Byelorussian SSR), are an East Slavic ethnic group who are native to modern-day Belarus and the immediate region. There are over 9.5 million people who proclaim Belarusian ethnicity worldwide, with the overwhelming majority residing either in Belarus or the adjacent countries where they are an autochthonous minority.

New!!: Pysanka and Belarusians · See more »

Bulgarians

Bulgarians (българи, Bǎlgari) are a South Slavic ethnic group who are native to Bulgaria and its neighboring regions.

New!!: Pysanka and Bulgarians · See more »

Canting

Canting (canthing, IPA:, sometimes spelled with old Dutch orthography tjanting) is a pen-like tool used to apply liquid hot wax (malam) in the batik-making process, more precisely batik tulis (lit. "written batik").

New!!: Pysanka and Canting · See more »

Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a mountain range system forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe (after the Scandinavian Mountains). They provide the habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois, and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species.

New!!: Pysanka and Carpathian Mountains · See more »

Chernihiv

Chernihiv (Чернігів) also known as Chernigov (p, Czernihów) is a historic city in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of the Chernihiv Oblast (province), as well as of the surrounding Chernihiv Raion (district) within the oblast.

New!!: Pysanka and Chernihiv · See more »

Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

New!!: Pysanka and Christianity · See more »

Croats

Croats (Hrvati) or Croatians are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Croatia.

New!!: Pysanka and Croats · See more »

Crucifix

A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross.

New!!: Pysanka and Crucifix · See more »

Cucuteni–Trypillia culture

The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture (and), also known as the Tripolye culture, is a Neolithic–Eneolithic archaeological culture (5200 to 3500 BC) in Eastern Europe.

New!!: Pysanka and Cucuteni–Trypillia culture · See more »

Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka) or the Czech people (Český národ), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and Czech language.

New!!: Pysanka and Czechs · See more »

Doves as symbols

Doves, usually white in color, are used in a lot of settings as symbols of love, peace or as messengers.

New!!: Pysanka and Doves as symbols · See more »

Dyeing

Dyeing is the process of adding color to textile products like fibers, yarns, and fabrics.

New!!: Pysanka and Dyeing · See more »

Easter

Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.

New!!: Pysanka and Easter · See more »

Easter egg

Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are decorated eggs that are usually used as gifts on the occasion of Easter.

New!!: Pysanka and Easter egg · See more »

Egg decorating in Slavic culture

Many Slavic ethnic groups, including the Belarusians (пісанка, pisanka), Bulgarians (писано яйце, pisano yaytse), Croats (pisanica), Czechs (kraslice), Poles (pisanka), Serbs (писаница/pisanica), Slovaks (kraslica), Slovenes (pisanica, pirhi or remenke), Sorbs (jejka pisać) and Ukrainians (писанка, pysanka) decorate eggs for Easter.

New!!: Pysanka and Egg decorating in Slavic culture · See more »

Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω, éxō "outer" and σκελετός, skeletós "skeleton") is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human.

New!!: Pysanka and Exoskeleton · See more »

Genista tinctoria

Genista tinctoria (dyer’s greenweed or dyer's broom) is a species of flowering plant of the family Fabaceae.

New!!: Pysanka and Genista tinctoria · See more »

Haematoxylum campechianum

Haematoxylum campechianum (blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood, logwood or logwood tree) is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to southern Mexico and northern Central America.

New!!: Pysanka and Haematoxylum campechianum · See more »

Holy Spirit in Christianity

For the majority of Christian denominations, the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is the third person (hypostasis) of the Trinity: the Triune God manifested as God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit; each person itself being God.

New!!: Pysanka and Holy Spirit in Christianity · See more »

Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary (Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history and speak the Hungarian language.

New!!: Pysanka and Hungarians · See more »

Hutsuls

Hutsuls (гуцули, hutsuly; Hucuł, plural Huculi, Hucułowie; huțul, plural huțuli) is an ethno-cultural group of Ukrainians,Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Richard T.Schaefer (ed.), 2008, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Volume 1, SAGE Publications, p. 1341.

New!!: Pysanka and Hutsuls · See more »

Ichthys

The ichthys or ichthus, from the Greek ikhthýs (ἰχθύς 1st cent. AD Koine Greek, "fish") is a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish.

New!!: Pysanka and Ichthys · See more »

Ivan Mazepa

Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (Іван Степанович Мазепа, Jan Mazepa Kołodyński). Retrieved 10 July 2015 served as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in 1687–1708.

New!!: Pysanka and Ivan Mazepa · See more »

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar.

New!!: Pysanka and Julian calendar · See more »

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.

New!!: Pysanka and Kiev · See more »

Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus' (Рѹ́сь, Рѹ́сьскаѧ землѧ, Rus(s)ia, Ruscia, Ruzzia, Rut(h)enia) was a loose federationJohn Channon & Robert Hudson, Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia (Penguin, 1995), p.16.

New!!: Pysanka and Kievan Rus' · See more »

Kosmach

Kosmach (Космач) is a Ukrainian village located in Kosivskyi Raion, of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

New!!: Pysanka and Kosmach · See more »

Lithuanians

Lithuanians (lietuviai, singular lietuvis/lietuvė) are a Baltic ethnic group, native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,561,300 people.

New!!: Pysanka and Lithuanians · See more »

Lviv

Lviv (Львів; Львов; Lwów; Lemberg; Leopolis; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016.

New!!: Pysanka and Lviv · See more »

Mary Magdalene

Saint Mary Magdalene, sometimes called simply the Magdalene, was a Jewish woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.

New!!: Pysanka and Mary Magdalene · See more »

Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

New!!: Pysanka and Mary, mother of Jesus · See more »

Mordant

A mordant or dye fixative is a substance used to set (i.e. bind) dyes on fabrics by forming a coordination complex with the dye, which then attaches to the fabric (or tissue).

New!!: Pysanka and Mordant · See more »

Natural dye

Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals.

New!!: Pysanka and Natural dye · See more »

Nelson Thornes

Nelson Thornes was a publishing firm located in Cheltenham, Great Britain.

New!!: Pysanka and Nelson Thornes · See more »

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

New!!: Pysanka and Painting · See more »

Paska (bread)

Paska (Ukrainian: Пáска "Easter", Georgian: პასკა "Easter", ultimately from פסחא "Passover") is a Ukrainian Easter bread eaten in Eastern European countries including Ukraine, south Russia, Armenia, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia, Georgia and parts of Bulgaria as well as the Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora.

New!!: Pysanka and Paska (bread) · See more »

Peter the Great

Peter the Great (ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj), Peter I (ˈpʲɵtr ˈpʲɛrvɨj) or Peter Alexeyevich (p; –)Dates indicated by the letters "O.S." are in the Julian calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January.

New!!: Pysanka and Peter the Great · See more »

Pisanica (Croatian)

Pisanica (pl. pisanice) is a decorated Croatian Easter egg that comes from an old Slavic custom dating back to pagan times.

New!!: Pysanka and Pisanica (Croatian) · See more »

Pisanka (Polish)

Polish pisanka (plural pisanki) or jaja wielkanocne (Easter eggs); piski, kraszonki is a common name for an egg (usually that of a chicken, although goose or duck eggs are also used) richly ornamented using various techniques.

New!!: Pysanka and Pisanka (Polish) · See more »

Poles

The Poles (Polacy,; singular masculine: Polak, singular feminine: Polka), commonly referred to as the Polish people, are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Poland in Central Europe who share a common ancestry, culture, history and are native speakers of the Polish language.

New!!: Pysanka and Poles · See more »

Polish cochineal

Polish cochineal (Porphyrophora polonica), also known as Polish carmine scales, is a scale insect formerly used to produce a crimson dye of the same name, colloquially known as "Saint John's blood".

New!!: Pysanka and Polish cochineal · See more »

Prayer

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship, typically a deity, through deliberate communication.

New!!: Pysanka and Prayer · See more »

Pysanka Museum

The current Pysanka Museum building was built in 2000 in the western Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivska Oblast.

New!!: Pysanka and Pysanka Museum · See more »

Romanians

The Romanians (români or—historically, but now a seldom-used regionalism—rumâni; dated exonym: Vlachs) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to Romania, that share a common Romanian culture, ancestry, and speak the Romanian language, the most widespread spoken Eastern Romance language which is descended from the Latin language. According to the 2011 Romanian census, just under 89% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians. In one interpretation of the census results in Moldova, the Moldovans are counted as Romanians, which would mean that the latter form part of the majority in that country as well.Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook By David Levinson, Published 1998 – Greenwood Publishing Group.At the time of the 1989 census, Moldova's total population was 4,335,400. The largest nationality in the republic, ethnic Romanians, numbered 2,795,000 persons, accounting for 64.5 percent of the population. Source:: "however it is one interpretation of census data results. The subject of Moldovan vs Romanian ethnicity touches upon the sensitive topic of", page 108 sqq. Romanians are also an ethnic minority in several nearby countries situated in Central, respectively Eastern Europe, particularly in Hungary, Czech Republic, Ukraine (including Moldovans), Serbia, and Bulgaria. Today, estimates of the number of Romanian people worldwide vary from 26 to 30 million according to various sources, evidently depending on the definition of the term 'Romanian', Romanians native to Romania and Republic of Moldova and their afferent diasporas, native speakers of Romanian, as well as other Eastern Romance-speaking groups considered by most scholars as a constituent part of the broader Romanian people, specifically Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians, and Vlachs in Serbia (including medieval Vlachs), in Croatia, in Bulgaria, or in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

New!!: Pysanka and Romanians · See more »

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), "Royal Gendarmerie of Canada"; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as "the Force") is the federal and national police force of Canada.

New!!: Pysanka and Royal Canadian Mounted Police · See more »

Rusyns

Rusyns, also known as Ruthenes (Rusyn: Русины Rusynŷ; also sometimes referred to as Руснакы Rusnakŷ – Rusnaks), are a primarily diasporic ethnic group who speak an East Slavic language known as Rusyn.

New!!: Pysanka and Rusyns · See more »

Scribe

A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.

New!!: Pysanka and Scribe · See more »

Serbs

The Serbs (Срби / Srbi) are a South Slavic ethnic group that formed in the Balkans.

New!!: Pysanka and Serbs · See more »

Slovaks

The Slovaks or Slovak people (Slováci, singular Slovák, feminine Slovenka, plural Slovenky) are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak the Slovak language.

New!!: Pysanka and Slovaks · See more »

Slovenes

The Slovenes, also called as Slovenians (Slovenci), are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Slovenia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovenian as their first language.

New!!: Pysanka and Slovenes · See more »

Sorbs

Sorbs (Serbja, Serby, Sorben), known also by their former autonyms Lusatians and Wends, are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting their homeland in Lusatia, a region divided between Germany (the states of Saxony and Brandenburg) and Poland (the provinces of Lower Silesia and Lubusz).

New!!: Pysanka and Sorbs · See more »

Stylus

A stylus, plural styli or styluses, is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery.

New!!: Pysanka and Stylus · See more »

Swastika

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it has been and remains a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, Chinese religions, Mongolian and Siberian shamanisms.

New!!: Pysanka and Swastika · See more »

Syncretism

Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.

New!!: Pysanka and Syncretism · See more »

Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

New!!: Pysanka and Ukraine · See more »

Ukrainian embroidery

Ukrainian embroidery (вишивка, vyshyvka) occupies an important place among the various branches of Ukrainian decorative arts.

New!!: Pysanka and Ukrainian embroidery · See more »

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) (Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Ucrainae) is a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See.

New!!: Pysanka and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church · See more »

Ukrainian historical regions

A list of the various regions of Ukraine and/or inhabited by Ukrainians and their ancestors throughout history.

New!!: Pysanka and Ukrainian historical regions · See more »

Ukrainians

Ukrainians (українці, ukrayintsi) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is by total population the sixth-largest nation in Europe.

New!!: Pysanka and Ukrainians · See more »

Redirects here:

Biserky, Dryapanky, Kistka, Krapanky, Krashanky, Lystovky, Malyovanky, Nakleyanky, Pasanki, Pizanki, Pusanky, Pysanka (Ukrainian), Pysanky, Travlenky, Ukrainian Easter eggs, Ukrainian easter egg, Ukrainian egg, Ukrainian pisanka.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pysanka

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »