1) Slavic Christmas tradition
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Vertep (Cyrillic: Вертеп, Батлейка) is a portable puppet theatre and drama predominantly in Ukraine, which presents the nativity scene, other mystery plays, and later secular plots as well. The original meaning of the word is `secret place`, `cave`, `den`, referring to the cave where Christ was born, i.e., the Bethlehem Cave `...
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[Serbian] The Vertep is a Serbian Orthodox Christmas custom commonly practiced in Ukraine by the young male members of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is usually performed on January 6, the Christmas Eve of the Orthodox calendar. This custom is called vertep, and the participants in it – vertepaši. Similarly to koledari, vertepaši are a...
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(from the article `Ukraine`) ...(intermedia) rapidly developed into a specific genre, the school theatre, whose repertoire expanded to encompass dramatization of Christian ...
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