Hutsuls Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/hutsuls/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:22:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Hutsuls Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/hutsuls/ 32 32 How to Teach a Bear to Play the Flute: The Fairy-Tale World of Oleksa Bakhmatiuk https://forgottengalicia.com/how-to-teach-a-bear-to-play-the-flute-the-fairy-tale-world-of-oleksa-bakhmatiuk/ https://forgottengalicia.com/how-to-teach-a-bear-to-play-the-flute-the-fairy-tale-world-of-oleksa-bakhmatiuk/#respond Sat, 27 Nov 2021 14:16:22 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=49232 By Oleksandr Simchuk for Amnesia Master tilemaker Oleksa Bakhmatiuk (1820-1882) is the most famous representative of the Kosiv school of ceramics and perhaps the most successful Ukrainian artist of the nineteenth century. A lion playing with a wheel, a bear on the flute warming up a violinist, street artists dancing […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/how-to-teach-a-bear-to-play-the-flute-the-fairy-tale-world-of-oleksa-bakhmatiuk/feed/ 0 ‘Czerwony Pas’ & ‘Verkhovyno’: The Story of a Polish and Ukrainian ‘Folk’ Song https://forgottengalicia.com/czerwony-pas-verkhovyno-the-story-of-a-polish-and-ukrainian-folk-song/ https://forgottengalicia.com/czerwony-pas-verkhovyno-the-story-of-a-polish-and-ukrainian-folk-song/#respond Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:31:45 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10143 Today, both the Poles and Ukrainians have a beloved song about the Hutsul Carpathian highlanders, sung in their own languages to a similar melody. How did this come to be? The Polish Story Karpaccy Górale We must first look back at the first half of the nineteenth century. This is […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/czerwony-pas-verkhovyno-the-story-of-a-polish-and-ukrainian-folk-song/feed/ 0 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/ https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:16:05 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4006 The Six-Petal Rosette The six-petal rosette (also known as a hexafoil), the flower-like symbol created by overlapping seven circles, as well as the expanded variants with 7 interlocking rosettes and 19 interlocking rosettes (the latter is called the “Flower of Life” in the New Age movement), is an ancient symbol […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/a-protection-symbol-for-the-home-the-six-petal-rosette-on-the-crossbeams-of-galicia/feed/ 9 The Hutsuls as Depicted by Teodor Axentowicz https://forgottengalicia.com/the-hutsuls-as-depicted-by-teodor-axentowicz/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-hutsuls-as-depicted-by-teodor-axentowicz/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:13:19 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4664 Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938), a renowned Polish-Armenian painter and the first elected rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, was born in Braşov, Hungary (now Romania). His father’s family had Armenian roots and owned a small property in Ceniów, near Brody. Axentowicz grew up in Lwów (Lviv) and after […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-hutsuls-as-depicted-by-teodor-axentowicz/feed/ 0 ‘The Last Hutsul Musical Magician’ https://forgottengalicia.com/last-hutsul-musical-magician/ https://forgottengalicia.com/last-hutsul-musical-magician/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:30:37 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1364 I bought my tsymbaly (hammered dulcimer) from the Tafiychuks—a family of musicians and instrument makers that lives in the Carpathian Mountains. Mykhailo Tafiychuk, or “the Last Hutsul Musical Magician” as Cobblestone Freeway dubbed him in this article, makes many different ancient instruments such as the hurdy gurdy, tsymbaly, and duda (Ukrainian bagpipe). […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/last-hutsul-musical-magician/feed/ 0 The Living Fire: Documentary about Dying Tradition of Shepherding https://forgottengalicia.com/living-fire-documentary-dying-tradition-shepherding/ https://forgottengalicia.com/living-fire-documentary-dying-tradition-shepherding/#respond Mon, 18 May 2015 14:14:16 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1300 A documentary film was recently released about the dying tradition of shepherding in the Carpathian Mountains. The film, called The Living Fire (Жива Ватра), was directed by my acquaintance Ostap Kostyuk. “ЖИВА ВАТРА” (The Living Fire) Ukraine, 2014, 77’ “A four-year-long project documenting three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds in […]

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