#Velika Hoča

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▪️Serbian girl dressed in serbian traditional clothes from Velika Hocha(srb. Велика Хоча/lat. Velika Hoča), Southern Serbia 🇷🇸

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Velika Hoča, XX vek

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12th century monastery in Velika Hoča, Serbia. Christopher Anderson - Magnum Photos

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Kosovo and Metohija Living in the Enclave Edited by Dušan T Bataković SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS INSTITUTE FOR BALKAN STUDIES SPECIAL EDITIONS 96 KOSOVO AND METOHIJA LIVING IN THE ENCLAVE Edited by Dušan Bataković BELGRADE 2007 Published by Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Belgrade, 35 Knez Mihailova St email: balkinst@sanu.ac.yu www.balkaninstitut.com Contents Foreword  Dušan T Bataković Kosovo and Metohija: Identity, Religions & Ideologies  Miloš Luković Kosovska Mitrovica: Present and Past  Helena Zdravković Historical Victimage of Kosovo Serbs and Albanians  Valentina Pitulić Folklore in the Serb Enclave: Preserving Identity in Hostile Environment  Harun Hasani Migrations of Goranies  Radivoje Mladenović The Sirinićka Župa: Štrpce Municipality –Historical Background and Current Field Research  Mirjana Menković The Enclave of Velika Hoča: Cultural Heritage as a Means of Socio-economic Renewal and Preservation of Serbian Identity in Kosovo and Metohija  Miloš Luković Tzintzars in Uroševac, Lipljan, Obilić, Priština and Kosovska Mitrovica  Dušan T Bataković Surviving in Ghetto-like Enclaves: The Serbs of Kosovo and Metohija Appendix Chaos and disorder: Kosovo and Metohija four years later by Fr Sava Janjić  Roma in Kosovo and Metohija: Arguments against independence of Kosovo and Metohija by Rajko Djurić  Belgrade Valedictory : March   by Julian Harston  Kosovo and Metohija at the Crossroads by Fr Sava Janjić  The Visoki Dečani Monastery Land Issue by Visoki Dečani Monastery  Kosovo Future Status by Joseph K Grieboski  Abstracts  www.balkaninstitut.com/pdf/izdanja/posebno/Enklave.pdf , via Милан «Паланка на вези» Милошевић - Google+ Posts

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Lazarice from Velika Hoča, Serbia. x

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Traditional costumes from Velika Hoča, Serbia. (x)

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Dance of peacocks (игра паунова) - is a female traditional dance performed during the ritual of Бела вила in Velika Hoča, Serbia, on the third day after Easter.

Women in folk costumes dance in a circle (kolo, oro) and sing the old traditional song "Паун пасе, трава расте":

Паун мој, паун мој

Паун 'оће да се жени, паун мој.

Паун 'оће лепу жену, паун мој.

Паун пасе, трава расте, паун мој.

Паун нага, глава боли.

Паун нага, крило боли.

Паун нага, нога боли.

Паун, мој, паун мој.

that ends with "левка" through which all participants pass to the altar in the church of St. John, where they present modest gifts to the church. They sing:

Вишњичица род родила, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Немај вишњу кој да бере, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Само момче и девојче, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Women decorate their headscarfs with flowers to resemble the male and female peacock. Male peacock goes around and kisses the prettiest young girls, it is belived that the first girl who's kissed will get married soon (that she will be already engaged until next Easter).

Female peacock should be the oldest woman in the village, she goes around and tries to stop the male peacock from kissing young girls by jokingly and gently pulling him. Peacocks in this dance symbolise young man and woman.

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As dawn creeps over Velika Hoča, a young monk recites the Serbian Orthodox liturgy in a chapel graced by fragments of medieval icons.

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Serbian girls of Velika Hoča on Easter, dressed in their traditional costumes.

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One older woman from Velika Hoča described the ritual like this:

"Жене би се накупиле и накитиле гранчићем од брезе. Коло игра, две у средини се грлу, се љубив и певају паун пасе трава расте. Тај паун иде да пољуби младу девојку са којом паун хоће да се жени, он је пољуби и пауница зграби њега и после две по две певамо "вишњичица род родила..." и две по две улазимо у цркву док певамо. Једна жена се моли за народ, за берићет. Каже:

Нека је срећан празник за много године.

- Амин

Нека Бог да берићет.

- Амин

Нека је слобода.

- Амин"

Dance of peacocks (игра паунова) - is a female traditional dance performed during the ritual of Бела вила in Velika Hoča, Serbia, on the third day after Easter.

Women in folk costumes dance in a circle (kolo, oro) and sing the old traditional song "Паун пасе, трава расте":

Паун мој, паун мој

Паун 'оће да се жени, паун мој.

Паун 'оће лепу жену, паун мој.

Паун пасе, трава расте, паун мој.

Паун нага, глава боли.

Паун нага, крило боли.

Паун нага, нога боли.

Паун, мој, паун мој.

that ends with "левка" through which all participants pass to the altar in the church of St. John, where they present modest gifts to the church. They sing:

Вишњичица род родила, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Немај вишњу кој да бере, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Само момче и девојче, маљен мој, маљен мој.

Women decorate their headscarfs with flowers to resemble the male and female peacock. Male peacock goes around and kisses the prettiest young girls, it is belived that the first girl who's kissed will get married soon (that she will be already engaged until next Easter).

Female peacock should be the oldest woman in the village, she goes around and tries to stop the male peacock from kissing young girls by jokingly and gently pulling him. Peacocks in this dance symbolise young man and woman.