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| Pysanky with the Christian symbol
of crosses and the symbols of the sun. All pysanky are very symbolic and magic. The symbol of the sun means happiness, new life. |
Pysanky with the design of "forty triangles", which in reality consists of 48 triangles. In pagan times each triangle symbolized a wish, in Christian times it became a symbol of the 40 days of lent, the 40 martyrs or the 40 days that Christ spent in the desert. |
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| Pysnaky with different symbols... Horses are the symbols of kind, good spirits; flowers are the symbols of life. | Pysnaky with different symbols |
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| Pysanky with different symbols, fish is the symbol of health, then they began to symbolize Jesus Christ as well; with church, and the birds which bring sping. | Pysanky with different symbols. Pysanky can be with a colored background and just a white background, such pysanky are called "painted in a free manner" or "clean" pysanky... you can see some of them with the flowers symbol. |
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| Pysanky typical for the Bukovyna
region of Ukraine |
Pysanky with different symbols |
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| Pysanky with different symbols,
horse, church, birds. |
Pysanky with the symbols of the Son and Cross |
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| Pysanky with different symbols
by Liubov Ktytorova and Tetiana Vlenenko |
Pysanky with different symbols
by the two artists |
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 and flowers (life) ')) |
| Pysanky with different symbols | Pysanky with the fish symbol
(health, Jesus Christ) and flowers (life) |
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| Two pysanky with symbols from
the Trypilolia Culture |
A frame filled pysanky decorated with churches by Liubov Ktytorova |
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| Pysanka with the Moon and Stars |
Pysanka with the symbol of an oak tree, symbolizing man's strength... |
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