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Small clay Varenyk whistle - ceramic whistle made of red clay, 2 notes.

An educational toy for your child - the whistle has only one hole, so it will be easy for the child to learn to play elementary melodies on it. There is also a hole for a rope, you can wear it around your neck or use it as a Christmas tree decoration.

Varenyks are traditionally identified with the moon, because they resemble it in shape and were used by our ancestors as sacrificial food dedicated to the goddess of water.
Ukrainians believed that Varenyks have a magical meaning. They were necessarily prepared on the day when a cow calved or a sheep lambed in the peasant's household. This was supposed to provide the animal with good health and fertility. Girls make fortune-telling on varenyks for Andrii, varenyks is a must-have dish for women in labor after giving birth.
It was also believed that the process of kneading the dough was a symbol of the process of creating the universe, its structure, where it was the woman who created this universe, as a mother and progenitor, a symbol of the continuation of the human race.
A Varenyks on the Christmas table is a symbol of the new moon and procreation.
During the harvest, ancient Ukrainians ate dumplings as a ritual dish. It is no coincidence that Varenyk resembles the moon in its fourth quarter, when the fate of the harvest was decided. Such food was supposed to provide the reapers with "monthly" light. During the break, harvest songs were performed, for example this one, recorded in the Kyiv region:
The moon is already falling
And the edge of the field is still gone...
Oh come on, let's hurry
We will finish the harvest on time!
Not far from the border,
Dumplings in a dish!
Let's not fight on the doe -
Dumplings in sour cream!

Ukrainian dumplings somehow remained on the border between Christianity and paganism, because people associate spiritual and material wealth with them, as the personification of a new universe in miniature carefully created by women's hands. That is why girls brought the symbol of the moon to the young couple on the second day of the wedding (so that the firstborn of the young family would be born as soon as possible), and they went with them to visit the maternity patient, during the calving or lambing of livestock, while deciding the fate of the crop. People's love intricately wove them into Christianity - family molding of varenyks on Saturday with permission to eat on Sunday after attending the divine service in the church and mandatory preparation for Christmas Eve.
Dimensions of clay ocarina musical instrument 80x45 mm, weight about 50 g