What could be more tempting for the young young lady than the wedding? She wants not so much to marry right here and now, but to be a bride at a wedding, to walk in a magnificent dress, to be the most attractive and charming.
So little girls play in brides, building lush dresses from improvised materials. However, did you think about why folklore songs telling about the wedding rite are such sad? Why do the brides’ girlfriends perform “crying”, that is, special songs mourning the bitter fate of the bride?
Well, it happens, of course, that the girl comes out for the unloved, but not every bride makes such a mistake, but to cry and grieve was ordered to everyone. You can try to explain all this with poverty and the heavy position of the Russian peasantry, but then they should not have to marry? But they wanted to, they guessed the grooms, lured the narrowed-richen. What is the matter?
The matter is completely different.
The reason for tears at any wedding is explained by ancient-sens by ancient traditions still pagan pagan. The fact is that the wedding ceremony repeats the ceremony of burial. And the White Fata is not a symbol of innocence at all, the bride then appeared close to the virginity of the bride, in later times, in later. Vet of the bride – an analogue of the Savan, hiding the face of the deceased.
Pagan myths and modern traditions.
In ancient times, our ancestors were very neat to the names. Until now, the Russian uses a very ancient and very evasive form of the message of its name. We say: “My name is so”. That is, we do not report as German-speaking peoples that my name is such and such. My name is, I respond, but you will not recognize a genuine name. This is what, in fact, this verbal and familiar formula for us means.
And the names of the infants were given different. One thing is the present for loved ones and relatives, which should not be pronounced in vain. Other – for general use. Often this name performed the functions of the amulet. They call the long -awaited and beautiful baby by Nekras, an unexpected or nonsense so that evil spirits do not pose on him. Say what to look there, terrible, and not painfully beloved, unexpected-uncleaned born. Until now, babies do not like to show strangers too much, and they are perceived with caution with caution, to be afraid of the “evil eye”.
So with the bride, who must first “die” under his own name, and then “be born” in another family, with a different name and in another social status. “Dies” a girl-child, and an “adult woman, wife and mother are“ born ”. Therefore, they still cry at first at weddings, and only then, after the wedding and registration, they begin to have fun.