Comments on: A Protection Symbol for the Home: The Six-Petal Rosette оn the Crossbeams of Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Tue, 05 Nov 2024 03:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Terri https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-2961 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 03:31:31 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-2961 This was a great article! I spent time in L’viv in 2008. I saw the rosettes carved on examples of Ukrainian lira in ethnographic museums (this was before the recent renaissance of the lira in Ukraine – back then it was hard to find any that were not very old and in museums – now they are fairly common). I wondered about the symbolic meaning of those rosettes. Thanks for shedding some light!

]]> By: Craig Snyder https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-2905 Sun, 07 Apr 2024 23:55:13 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-2905 Thank you for this article! It lead me to Matlakowski’s writings and drawings. I loved some of the designs I found there and I use them in some of my pyrography work.

Thank you!

]]> By: Chalk artist's activism meets resistance from civil authorities https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-2900 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:04:15 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-2900 […] He explained that the design is ancient, used by Sumerian and Egyptian cultures, quilt-making grandmothers, and is commonly referred to as a “six-petal rosette.” […]

]]> By: Kimberly https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-2814 Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:48:25 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-2814 Thank you for this post! My family’s roots are in the Carpathian Mountains near the Podhale area. I am amazed to see this symbol was used so far back! Somehow it managed (without my full awareness) to sneak into my artwork. It’s really great to know my ancestors used this symbol too.

]]> By: Kim https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-2808 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:03:09 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-2808 In reply to Lindsay Potosky Michaels.

It seems like your father’s people are Lemko from Nowica, now Poland, previously Galicia. Someone has completed a fairly thorough family tree.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/38-315+Nowica,+Poland/@49.5488244,21.1887929,12.71z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x473dcfe09d91a161:0xa5205fa489e93248!8m2!3d49.5512964!4d21.1867593
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/83612103/person/36490998300/facts?_phsrc=ypW1716&_phstart=successSource
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/new/214.htm

]]> By: Lindsay Potosky Michaels https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-2801 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:53:33 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-2801 My grandfather was Paul Potosky, passed in 1971 at 84. Family story goes that he and his brother Steven were up “in the mountains”, fighting with the partisans, and I am figuring, against the bolsheviks. Upon returning home, they found their whole family murdered and fled across Poland and caught a boat to USA. He fought under some general who had him change the I to a Y to signify his service. I don’t know how accurate this all is. He married Mary Dziadik, born in Galicia, it was an arranged marriage. They had 9 children, my father being the youngest. As I child, I recall the oldest, a daughter, stating that “Pa was told to never forget he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth”. He worked hard, never took charity and all the children survived to adulthood. They are all gone now. I myself am 68. This note is kind of like a bottle in the ocean. I looked up Lancut and then found my way here. Anyone know any more history on this?

]]> By: Lilian https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-2734 Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:01:02 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-2734 I would love to have an engraved crossbeam above my kitchen stove and above my fireplace. Can you suggest if there are carvers or shops that still make pieces and any contact details.

]]> By: Areta https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-1620 Fri, 29 May 2020 15:26:09 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-1620 In reply to Scott Marusak.

Glad to hear!

]]> By: Scott Marusak https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comment-1619 Fri, 29 May 2020 14:53:31 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006#comment-1619 Thank you for this! My great-grandfather was from bukovina (tartranska) so I appreciate learning about things from that region.

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