Мотанка [Motanka] [English translation]

(One, two, three, four)1

Hey, surely not every girl fools around like this

Gathering magical herbs in the forest – I roll a joint (from herbs)

My traits are like stars, you can’t count them

If I take a look at you, that'll leave a mark

I attract the wise people, who know wabi-sabi2

Otherwise I’m better off by myself

This is my ritual, wrapped, twisted

This is my ritual, motanka3, give me power!

This is my ritual, wrapped, twisted

This is my ritual, motanka, give me power!

Stick to the stick4, cross to the cross

I’m wearing my ethnicity, wild aesthetics

Stick to the stick, cross to the cross

I’m wearing my ethnicity, wild aesthetics

I have everything easy5, you see, otherwise it’s not good

I'm by myself and my power is supernatural

Everyone is waiting for me, like the Easter holiday

Quench your thirst – my body is cool

Wild are my streams, they flow like a flood

I sing heavenly songs like a bird

Spreading my patterns from the top of the stars

When you see glitter in the sky, that’s my claws

I’ll shine radiantly, because I’m taking phosphorus baths

I believe in miracles, my caravan is coming

This is my ritual, wrapped, twisted

This is my ritual, motanka3, give me power!

This is my ritual, wrapped, twisted

This is my ritual, motanka, give me power!

This is my ritual (ay-yay-yay!)

This is my ritual (eeeya!)

This is my ritual (sheegy-reegy-duy!)

This is my ritual (booysya nya! [fear me!] )

Stick to the stick4, cross to the cross

I’m wearing my ethnicity, wild aesthetics

Stick to the stick, cross to the cross

I’m wearing my ethnicity, wild aesthetics

1. Hungarian words.2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi3. a. b. Maybe it’s the motanka doll.

https://tarotpugs.com/2021/03/04/ukrainian-folk-magic-the-motanka-doll4. a. b. Like a rod, something that’s used in hemstitching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemstitch5. Industriously.

• Artist:Alina Pash