#kusaki

I've been forgetting Tumblr! Here's some gift art from this year :3 There's a bit more on my Twitter, but this site is a lot harder to remember to update ^^'

Hi I'm Kusaki an Australian Puma Fur-riety Vtuber streamer and DJ! I play games both new and old, as well as monthly DJ sets!

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DJ STREAMS - Last Sat of Month

Villages between Przytyk and Przysucha in central Poland continue a custom of colorful parades closing the carnival and the season of kolędowanie. The masked participants are called kusaki in this region. They wander from house to house, play cheerful songs and fast-paced music, dance with the people who open the doors for them, sometimes pull harmless pranks. Each participant gets a “role” connected to their costume, and often play a small theatrical show for the owners of farms they visit. 

The custom is connected to a series of ancient Slavic rites celebrating the days growing longer after the winter solstice. It was meant to prepare the rural communities for the later rites of welcoming of spring. The symbolic costumes and theatrical setting of the custom bear a lot of traces to the ancient rituals meaning to evoke happiness, fertility, and start waking the nature up from the winter hibernation.

Photos © Piotr Baczewski.