Maslenitsa is a farewell to winter and a meeting of spring, which brings revival in nature and solar warmth. People have always perceived spring as the beginning of a new life and revered the Sun, which gives life and strength to all living things. In honor of the Sun, unleavened tortillas were first baked, and when they learned how to cook sourdough dough, they began to bake pancakes.

The ancients considered the pancake a symbol of the Sun, because it, like the Sun, is yellow, round and hot, and believed that together with the pancake they eat a piece of its warmth and power.