Malkh-Festival
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Malkh is a festival gifted to the Deela-Malkh in Vainakh mythology
. 25 December was the Birthday and the festival of the sun. During the ceremonies suppliants turned to the east. Also in Nakh Architecture temples and house façades were directed to east. Nakh people believed that Sun went to visit her mother Aza at the summer and winter solstices. The journey took her six months to complete. Nakh people used fylfot
as symbol of Deela-Malkh on their buildings and tomb-stones.
Vainakh mythology
The Vainakh people of the North Caucasus include the modern Chechens and Ingush, who are today predominantly Muslim in religion. Nevertheless, their folklore has preserved a substantial amount of information about their pre-Islamic pagan beliefs...
. 25 December was the Birthday and the festival of the sun. During the ceremonies suppliants turned to the east. Also in Nakh Architecture temples and house façades were directed to east. Nakh people believed that Sun went to visit her mother Aza at the summer and winter solstices. The journey took her six months to complete. Nakh people used fylfot
Fylfot
Fylfot or fylfot cross , is a synonym for swastika, sometimes used in Britain.However – at least in modern heraldry texts, such as Friar and Woodcock & Robinson – the fylfot differs somewhat from the archetypal form of the swastika: always upright and typically with truncated limbs, as...
as symbol of Deela-Malkh on their buildings and tomb-stones.