Ukrainian Cossack Mamai Pins and Buttons

The design is dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian soldiers. Cossack Mamai on a cloud. Cossack Mamai is a protector of the Ukrainian people, a steppe man, a traveler, a warrior, a sage, a storyteller and a character in one person. His images can be found in almost every house next to icons. This enigmatic image in the centuries-long historical process turned out to be a spiritual symbol of Ukrainians, personifying the people's ideals of struggle, its worldview orientations and nation-building directions. Having become widely spread in Ukraine in the 18th–19th centuries, the folk painting "Cossack-Mama" sanctified almost every Ukrainian house, forming a kind of sacred complex together with traditional iconographic images.

Mamai is a protector of the Ukrainian people, a steppe man, a traveler, a ukrainian warrior, a sage, a storyteller and a character in one person. His images can be found in almost every house next to icons. This enigmatic image in the centuries-long historical process turned out to be a spiritual symbol of Ukrainians, personifying the people's ideals of struggle, its worldview orientations and nation-building directions. Having become widely spread in Ukraine in the 18th–19th centuries, the folk painting "Cossack Mamai" sanctified almost every Ukrainian house, forming a kind of sacred complex together with traditional iconographic images.