How to carry out the rite of the sun meeting in Yakutia

• How to carry out the rite of the sun meeting in Yakutia

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How to carry out the rite of the sun meeting in Yakutia

I was fortunate to attend one of these events - Ysyakh. It is celebrated for two days.

In the night from the first to the second passes the main event - the ritual of the sun meeting. At sunrise on the first day of the solstice Yakuts believe the great miracle, when gods and men approach each other.

I invite you to look at this ceremony (everything you see happening with 3 nights to 5 am, do not be deceived, that the photos on the light)

Uruy-Aikhal!

Now, in order:

Everything is ready for the rite. There will be divorced shamanic fire

All take their places

In Yakutsk - Sun meeting ritual sounds like Kyun Kersyute (very similar, by the way, Tatar ken kursete - "shows the day" literally)

Before the war, this ceremony fell on the longest daylight hours from 21 to 22 June.

However, after 1941, for obvious reasons, universal Yakut Ysyakh slipped for the week ahead.

Prior to that, it is celebrated in the district (districts), which again reminds me Sabantui Tatarstan.

A girl holding a shaman's headdress

The plague.

On this night, many of the participants of the festival are not sleeping. I'm very pleased that the festival day I met all ages from infants and up to 100 years! At night, of course, the smallest is no longer involved.

The rite of the sun clears the holiday meeting participants from the bad and energizes the year ahead.

The pan with dry horse manure called Tyupte.

This Ysyakh was dedicated to the god Desegeey Aiyy. This God sends people to a beast, but it can also take away, if it is upsetting. He also helps to keep house, endows man with the power, skills, and talents

In the view of the Yakuts have three of the world: the bottom, where they live evil spirits, medium, where there are people, and the upper, inhabited by a deity.

On the ninth (highest) heaven of the upper world inhabited by the chief god Uriing Aar Toyon who created the Yakuts, land, cattle, and everything else. Lower living Desegeey Aiyy, patron of horses. A horse - a sacred animal, which is very revered in Yakutia

See and participate in the ceremony came to a incredible amount of people! And in the final part of the ceremony involves all who came.

Start.

Usually, horse manure harness to ward off mosquitoes, but at the festival in this action a meaning associated with this symbol Ysyakh - horse.

The horse seems to feel what it is today plays a role!

helpers of the shaman

Horse lead around the future of the fire

But the shaman. His name Algyschyt.

Girls bring to it a hat and one of them put it on the shaman

It is time to light the fire ritual

Shaman loudly blesses people and wishes them all the best - the children, success in the economy and career, health, livestock, etc...

Uruy-Aikhal - words of welcome addressed to the sun.

Their repeated loudly for him all those present.

Shaman serves the dough with a wooden spoon, and he lays it along the fire - then you could see the pancakes, which turned

The action began at 3 am and the sun, we must have seen about 4 am, but because of the clouds had poshamanit longer)

Then, after the end of the ritual, many have come to touch the shaman fire

And then began the most fun! Dancing!

;-)

Everyone stood in dance osuokhay (me too tired to take pictures, and I did not deny myself the pleasure to join!)

It symbolizes the universal unity of the people - the life cycle.

We moved in a clockwise direction in the direction of movement of the sun, as it were, make a cycle in time and space, and gave tribute to the luminary of light and heat, people donated.