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Dodola (also spelled ''Doda'', ''Dudulya'' and ''Didilya'', pronounced: doh-doh-la, doo-doo-lya, or dee-dee-lya), Perperuna or Preperuša is a pagan tradition found in the Balkans. A girl, wearing a skirt made of fresh green knitted vines and small branches, sings and dances through the streets of the village, stopping at every house, where the hosts sprinkle water on her. She is accompanied by the people of the village who dance and shout on the music. The custom has attributed a specific type of dance and a specific melody. According to some interpretations, Dodola is a Slavic goddess of rain, and the wife of the supreme god Perun (who is the god of thunder). Slavs believed that when Dodola milks her heavenly cows, the clouds, it rains on earth. Each spring Dodola is said to fly over woods and fields, and spread vernal greenery, decorating the trees with blossoms. ==Names== The custom is known by two names, mostly spelled ''Dodola'' (''dodole'', ''dudula'', ''dudulica'', ''dodolă'') and ''Perperuna'' (''peperuda'', ''peperuna'', ''perperuna'', ''prporuša'', ''preporuša'', ''păpărudă'', ''pirpirună''). Both names are used by the South Slavs and Romanians. The name ''Perperuna'' is identified as a feminine personification of the great god Perun. Sorin Paliga suggested that it was a divinity from the local Thracian substratum.〔Sorin Paliga: "Influenţe romane și preromane în limbile slave de sud" (.pdf )〕 The name of ''Dodola'' is possibly cognate with the Lithuanian word for thunder: ''dundulis''.〔 D. Decev compared the word "dodola" (also ''dudula'', ''dudulica'', etc.) with Thracian anthroponyms (personal names) and toponyms (place names), such as ''Doidalsos'', ''Doidalses'', ''Dydalsos'', ''Dudis'', ''Doudoupes'', etc.〔D. Decev, ''Die thrakischen Sprachreste'', Wien: R.M. Rohrer, 1957, pp. 144, 151〕 Paliga argued that based on this, the custom most likely originated from the Thracians.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dodola」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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