Sunday, May 27, 2007

Alam Vachini


HARVEST CREEMONY (ALAM-VACHINI)

Was done in mountainous areas after harvest of wheat and barely, and in plain areas after harvest of rice to help farmers for getting money. They were usually held in Friday and Monday and people were informed by the “Bogheh” or “religious tomb” custodian. Every Bogheh had some people who their families were buried around and they were called as “Tekieh-sharik” (who shared in Tekieh). They helped the Bogheh custodian to aid for harvest ceremony. People got to gather around the grave yard where many old trees spread shade for them and it was very scared in their opinion. People wore their best local clothes.
Their clothes mostly white and had been sewed by some colorful ribbon. Golden or silver coins were also sewed around their waist and collars. Middle-aged women wore a black cloth called “Lachak” and a white one on it. They wore the same as the girls but simpler than them. They wore a kind of necklace carrying gold and silver coins which there were a kind of jeweler in the middle of them called as (Vaseteh-Al Aghd) and Gilak called it “Sheveh” made of Aghigh.
The young boys wore a kind of clothes called as “Las-pareh”, a black closefitting pants and were taped on both sides and a red shirt with coin buttons. Their collar was sewed from left to right. Boys wore a shawl around their waist called as “Golbandy shawl” and a vest and carried a stick from Medlar called Konous Kachak. They also wore a hat from left. They always wore it and it was impolite to go out without wearing it.The family sometimes spread a durries rug in a shadow place and had fun. Some vendors also came to there and spread their goods there to sell them. And then Tekieh-Sharik and the land owners came with glory accompanying by their family their spleen did clothes. Girls who their marriage is near went to the Bogheh to give their charitable offering (Nazri), in cash or by wooden knitting. They put it on the chest of Bogheh. Other pilgrims who lived in mountainous areas brought their milk of that day for the Bogheh as Nazri. In the afternoon the harvest was done the youth lifted a kind of thing called (Alam) made of nudge tree to honor the people (especially youth) who had died during that year. They tied the dead’s clothes to the alam and decorated by some ribbons or tapes to remind their mourning, a sort of family mourning. Opening their clothes from the alam had also a ceremony. Their family mourned when the alam came out from the bogheh. The bogheh custodian recited elegies on Imam Hosein and youth and children came over and touch their tree branches and grass to the alam to sactify them. They did not put them on the ground till to feed their farm animals with them.

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