Poseidon

Today is your holiday of Ivan Kupala and you have decided to celebrate it today. You (you are a god who pretends to be a human, either for fun or make it up yourself) and Poseidon have been feeding on mice for a long time, but live separately from each other. And now the moment has come to release the wreaths into the water. Your flowers were very beautiful, blue-blue, beautiful.

Rituals Some rituals that are performed on Ivan Kupala: Jumping over a bonfire. The flames on the eve of the holiday were believed to possess special purifying and protective powers. Couples in love would leap over the flames, holding hands—this leap symbolized the strength of their future relationships. Bathing in rivers and lakes. The water, according to legend, acquires healing properties. It was believed that bathing before sunset would free one from illness and ensure good health for the entire year. Weaving wreaths from herbs and flowers. Wreaths were often made from plants with magical properties: chamomile for love, St. John's wort for protection from evil spirits, cornflower for clarity of thought, wormwood for protection from the evil eye. After sunset, girls would throw wreaths into the water in hopes of learning their destiny: the direction they moved indicated their life's path or the arrival of a loved one. Finding a fern flower. According to myths, the fern blooms only once a year—on the night of Ivan Kupala. Finding this flower meant acquiring magical powers: from understanding the language of animals to becoming invisible. Songs On the holiday of Ivan Kupala, Kupala songs are performed—an East Slavic song cycle that accompanied the summer Ivanov Day rituals. Among the lyrics of the Kupala cycle are many lyrical songs with love and family themes, humorous refrains of bickering between young men and women, round dances and playful songs, and ballads. The lyrics, whose motifs reflect a connection to the ritual and the meaning of the holiday, most often include a specific refrain that is repeated after each line of the song, or a special beginning and ending to the song.

Signs Some signs associated with the holiday of Ivan Kupala: If a young man and a young woman, holding hands, successfully jump over a fire, they will be together happily ever after. A wreath woven on the night of Kupala and lasting a long time foretells a long and strong love for the girl who created it. It was believed that after Ivan Kupala the season of rains and thunderstorms began, symbolizing the end of the bright and dry summer.