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Maslenitsa
Maslenitsa (; ; ; ), also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual. It is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent; that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha, equivalent to the West's Sexagesima.

Wastyrdži
thumb|Uastyrdzhi monument in Alagir Canyon, Ossetian Military Road (1995)
thumb|Unidentified image (2009 photograph)
Oynyena Maria
Slavic folk Christianity
Paraskeva Pyatnitsa
image based on personification of Friday