Building ceremonies in Russia Bashny.Net

The construction of the building — the act of creation, of creation. And carpenters in Russia was likened to the priests, as being involved in the sphere of the sacred and endowed with supernatural powers and special knowledge about the outside world.

To legitimize a new model of the world, the world converted the accomplished creation, the construction was accompanied by certain rites.



Determination of the centre

 

Construction began with defining the ritual center. This point was recognized by the middle of next home or red (front St.) corner. Here was planted or stuck sapling (birch, Rowan, oak, cedar, tree icon) or made by the carpenters of the cross, which stood until the end of construction.



Tree or cross like world tree, symbolizing the world order, cosmos. So established relationship of similarity between the structure of the future structure and structure of the cosmos, and the very act of construction was mythologicals.

The victim

 

In the center, marked world tree, laid the so-called building sacrifice. Like the world in the mythological representation were "deployed" from the victim's body, the house also "deduced" from the victim. In the early stages of the Slavs was not excluded human sacrifice at the Foundation of buildings, then the ritual equivalent of human sacrifice was livestock (most commonly horse) and small animals (rooster, chicken).



Excerpt from Christian Nomocanon reads: "In the construction of houses tend to put the human body as a Foundation. Lay person in the Foundation — punishment — 12 years of Church penance and 300 bows. Put in the Foundation of the boar, or bull, or goat".

Later construction the victim was bloodless. Stable set of the three sacrificial symbols: wool, grain, money, which is correlated with ideas of wealth, fertility, prosperity, and a personification of three kingdoms: animal, plant, and human.

Laying the first wreath

 

The sacrifice ceremony was combined with the laying of the first wreath. This operation was given special attention, because the first row is a sample and the rest of the crowns that make up the frame. With the laying of the first wreath is implemented in the spatial scheme of the home, and now the whole space is divided into domestic and feral, domestic and foreign. Usually on this day the carpenters put only one crown, followed by "the accountant" ("obladanoe", "backfilling") a feast, during which the master says: "Masters of good health, and home share to stand until they rot."



If the carpenters I wish the owners future home of evil, and in this case, the laying of the first wreath — best moment: hitting a cross-shaped axe on the log and keeping in mind the intended spell, the wizard says, "GAK! Bodice so Nihal!" and what he's up to, and it will come true.

Laying Matica

 

The Central point of construction – the laying of the beams (beams constituting the ground to ceiling) – are accompanied by ritual actions, the purpose of which was to provide warmth and prosperity in the house. One of the carpenters avoided the top log ("skull crown"), scattered on the sides of the cereal grain and hops. The owners are all the time praying to God. The wizard-priest stepped on the joist where the bark was tied with a sheepskin coat, in the pockets of her put bread, salt, piece of meat, a head of cabbage and a bottle of green wine.



Bark was pererubano axe, picked up the coat at the bottom, the pocket contents were eaten and drunk. Was able to lift the joist with attached to it a cake or a loaf of bread. After the installation of beams and "matecznego" treats rode horses with songs to the whole village saw what matrix put. And only a day continued to finish the house.

Cutting through Windows and doors

 

Close attention was paid to the process of manufacturing of door and window openings in order to regulate, to protect the connection of the inner world (home). When he pushed the door frame, saying, "Door, door! Be you locked evil duhovi and borovi," and did axe the sign of the cross.





The same happened when I installed the lintels and sills for Windows, and the same applied to the Windows to not let in the house of thieves and evil spirits.

House cover

 

The sky – roof of the earth. Hence the order of peace, harmony, because everything has an upper limit, finished, of course. The house, like painting the world becomes "his", residential and secure, only being covered.





With the laying of the roof is connected last, and the most lavish entertainment of carpenters, which was called "lock" of the roof. In the North staged "salamati" — a formal family dinner for carpenters and relatives. The main dishes were Salamat several varieties — thick zatirukha of flour (buckwheat, barley, oats), mixed with cream and seasoned with melted butter and a mess of fried in vegetable oil cereals.

Completion of construction

 

Seem strange rites, the final construction of the house. Within a certain period of time (7 days, year, etc.) the building was to remain unfinished with a view to avoid the death of any of the family members.





For example, could leave nepobedimym a piece of the wall above the icons, or year did a roof over a porch to "all sorts of trouble flew in the hole". So the incompleteness, the incompleteness associated with the ideas of maintaining the existing order, of eternity, of immortality, the continuation of life.

The entrance to the house

 

And then, finally, you can begin to celebrate the housewarming. In the old days people changed not only the house but the whole space and in this space, it was important for all: if you can see the horizon, the sunrise and sunset to make the road visible, and the water was near to the neighbor were good, comfortable and the horses and the cattle had. And the house itself — the centre of this space, the most sacred place, was tested many times. And suddenly, in the construction not the material got, the carpenters are not pleased, Yes they are "evil" timber planted, a man with unkind eyes went and jinxed, is not settled whether the evil spirits from someone's envy?
 



Ritual actions the entrance to the house began in a week. Testing the security of the housing, the first night was taken to the house of the cat and the cat if all was well, carrying a rooster and a hen, on the third day of pig, the next few days, a sheep, a cow and a horse. Birds and animals are very sensitive and thus show the owner the "good" of any place. And only on the seventh day settled in the house of the people. It has long been noticed that someone the first the house is, that first and die. The first incoming takes care of all the evil that may be present in a new place, or to become a victim felled for the construction of trees. And if the family was "tired of life" elderly, and they entered first. If it were not the elderly, invited a stranger, not a believer neither in hell nor in God, but later they began to invite a pharmacist or a German doctor, a German, that such orders were treated as game. Although, in some places it was limited only to the launch in the house of the rooster. If he crowed — it was a good sign.

Huge cleansing power of bread, grain and, especially, the trough (wooden tub for the test). Because sometimes the first could enter the master with a bowl in his hands, followed by the hostess with chicken, next was the youth.

The earliest family was accompanied by the rite of transferring of the fire from the old housing and relocation of houses from the old podpeca (zapecza) in new. Brownie asked and invited: "Brownie! Brownie! Come with me!". Or master, standing at the gate, and bowing on three sides, cried out: "Father House and Mother House, the Yard Father and Mother Yard with all the family, come join us for a new home to live with us!". Brownie endured with the heat from the oven on the "bread shovel", with a pot of porridge or boots. Then the hostess cut the loaf of bread first loaf and put it "under the stove" welcoming House.

 

Also interesting: half-Timbered houses – well forgotten old

The ancestral Spirit of the ancestors

 

Came in the house on a string, rope or belt. All of these things — the symbols of time, of longevity, of life that bind families. Carrying with them water and honey drink (Mead), tried to bring from the old house to the new and Share. It was considered that the Share is not only the person, but also in the house. The transfer of the Share was reflected in the fact that the previous place to the new transported some of the "characters coziness": home statues of the gods, amulets, fire hearth, house COP, and even a basket of manure from the barn. The porridge was undercooked and carried straight put from dowar on a new fire.

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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