Egy keresztény kor előtti székely házasságkötési rítus hipotézise

Hypothesis on a Szekely Marriage Rite from the Age before Christianity

Balázs, Lajos

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2017-05-29T13:36:38Z

2017-05-29T13:36:38Z

2015

2015

beavató rítusok

emberi sorsforduló

bekontyolás

leánylopás

leányszöktetés

rites of initiation

changes in the human fate

doing the bride’s hair into a bun (bunning)

stealing the bride

abduction of the bride

The study sets out from the hypothesis that the Székely community, as an ethnic, cultural and social entity, had already possessed a system of traditions of initiation of its own, even before the Hungarian settlement in the Carpathian Basin. Th is community built its fate changing events – birth, marriage and death – into a culture of traditions and rites, which have strategic importance from the point of view of organizing, controlling and regulating society. In the author’s opinion, even in this early form of existence the separate regulations and strive for autonomous actions of the Székely community are already well detectable. This is manifest also in the fact that they still have not totally accepted the globalizing expectations, principles and norms of the European Christian churches, i. e. the diff erent ritualizations of the human fate changing traditions. In order to confirm this hypothesis, this study highlights the bunning (doing the bride’s hair into a bun), a peculiar form of marriage, applied even today in order to legitimize a girl’s abduction (an illegitimate way of acquiring a wife).

108-117. old.

magyar

angol

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http://hdl.handle.net/10598/29988

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