• Koliada or Koleda (Bulgarian: Коледа, romanized: Koleda) is a Slavic pseudo-deity, a personification of the newborn winter Sun and symbol of the New Year's cycle.
  • In some regions, Koliada represents an entirely different deity. Some of the other deities associated with it are Dazhbog or the one who brings up a new dawn...
  • Her exact name and nature varies from country to country, but she’s an ancient winter deity of rebirth who is celebrated at the end of the year.
  • Whatever her exact origins, Koliada’s winter festival was popular long before Christianity came along to gatecrash the party and borrow her ideas.
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  • When to celebrate Koliada and the winter solstice? There are many traditions that recall both the deity and the ritual of Koliada.
  • Koliada (deity) - Wikipedia. Koliada, the Slavic God/Goddess of the Solar Cycle. He was represented as both either Male or Female.
  • Thus arose the customs of ‘calling koliada to partake in the Christmas kutia’and the ‘shooing away of koliada.’
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