The Pagans celebrated spring each year, for more than a thousand years before Jesus'birth, indeed, long before Christianity made its official entrance. They believed that spring was a time of renewal and fertility. It represented new life and the resurrection of nature after the dead of winter. Spring festivals revived various sexual rituals which honoured the sun's welcoming and warming rays after the cold of winter with its short daylight hours, snow and stormy nights. Spring brought the promise of longer and warmer days which offered life givng forces and much need warmth.
The Belarusian women dress up very colorful for the Pagan spring tradition of 'Sula'. During the celebration the people come to the field to sing and walk to the next villages, dancing on every crossroad, and having a good meal at the end.
