Role verbier ethnoconfessional identity in contemporary Southeast Western Lithuania and Belarus

Abstract

In the article discuss the verba (palm, Palm Sunday flowers), one of the most important religious symbols which role in ethno-confessional identity is studied in modern Southeast Lithuania and Western Belarus. On the basis of fields ethnographic research and works of ethnologists, in article is put aim of define regional and ethnic features of a symbol of material used for manufacturing and also to find and local features of communications of various kinds of consecrated twigs with identity of in­habitants modern Southeast Lithuania and Western Belarus. Also, on the basis of the maintenance of the bouquet and an image of twigs is considered how a symbol becomes an important factor in the formation of the inhabitants ethnic and religious identity and is studied as the Vilnius verba participated in ethno-confessional identities.