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== '''Kleczanów Wood''' == |
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Kleczanów Wood is a small forest (ca 5 ha) in [[Kleczanów]] village, [[Poland]], |
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with 37 [[Slavic]] [[kurgans]] (burial mounds, barrows) 4-10 meters high (mean value: 7 m). |
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First funerals must had started there at late [[Stone Age]] and proceeded in 10th-11th centuary. |
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The wood is surrounded by agricultural fields and it is unique in the whole region. |
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The cementary was discovered by Polish archeologists in 90ties of the XX c. In pagan times |
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it could be a Slavic sacred wood, ([[gaj]], Proto-Slavic *gajь 'wood, thicket, bush', see [[Slavic mythology]]), |
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a place where people worshipped and used to bury their relatives. Although whole country |
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around that place was changed into farming land, the Kleczanów Wood survived untouched. |
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For 1.000 years the religious community of Kleczanów parish used to celebrate Pentecost |
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feasts and Whitsunday festival there. It is interesting that the spring season, lasting |
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from March to June, was traditionally devoted by Slavs to rebirth ceremonies and |
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communication with dead ancestors (as well as autumn time, conf. [[Halloween]] among |
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Germanic people). In early Christian age it contaminated with Catholic feasts. |
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[[Category:Prehistoric sites in Poland]] |
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[[Category:Forests of Poland]] |
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Andrzej Buko, ''Archeologia Polski wczesnośredniowiecznej'', Warszawa 2006, pp. 129-136 |
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[[Category:Sandomierz County]] |
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship]] |
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Aleksander Gieysztor, Mitologia Słowian, Warszawa 2006 |
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