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Vahdanifar O, Rahimzadeh M. The Ritual of Rain Pray among the Ethnicities of Northern Khorasan. CFL 2024; 12 (59) :107-141
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1- Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran. , o.vahdanifar@ub.ac.ir
2- B.A Graduated of Persian Language and Literature, University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran.
2- B.A Graduated of Persian Language and Literature, University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran.
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One of the areas in folk culture is to analyze the common rituals among the ethnic groups, and their ways of doing so. Rituals are some of the cultural and social issues of a particular culture, the employment of which requires certain manners and styles, which are of significance in folk culture studies. Some rituals are vast among some ethnicities, in that they are performed in different occasions, the analysis of which show the culture and beliefs in that ethnicity. As some of the rituals related to rain pray are particular to the northern Khorasan ethnic groups (Turks, Tarts, Turkeman, and Kermanj), the current study aimed to identify the rain pray rituals and their performative manners related to each ethnic group as well as their aims through library study and interviews. The findings figured out the types of rain pray rituals among the focused ethnic groups, and their performances in the ritual which are almost similar among them, such as puppetry, singing rain pray songs in group, distributing strew or votive bread, sacrifice, and saying prayers. Some of these symbols in rain pray are rooted in religious beliefs and some others in mythological notions. The role of women and children is significant in the performances. Although the ritual of rain pray is different on the surface among the ethnic groups, in total, all follow the same aim. Moreover, the people who were performing such rituals believed in them by heart.
Keywords: Folk culture, local rituals, rain pray, asking for rain, ethnicities of northern Khorasan.
Article Type: پژوهشی اصیل |
Subject:
Folklore
Received: 2024/02/9 | Accepted: 2024/07/20 | Published: 2024/11/21
Received: 2024/02/9 | Accepted: 2024/07/20 | Published: 2024/11/21
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