Mordovian wedding by anastasia_nik https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z en-us 2023-10-08 13:28:30 UTC 2023-10-12 10:10:03 UTC hello@padlet.com WEDDING PREPARATIONS Aleksandrakozlova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738674872 After the booze-up, the bride began to prepare for the wedding. She started to prepare gifts and learn lamentations.]]> 2023-10-09 19:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738674872 Aleksandrakozlova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738696152 The bride needed to have from 10 to 20 embroidered women's shirts, the same number of men’s shirts and a significant number embroidered kokoshniks, towels, scarves with embroidered borders.]]> 2023-10-09 19:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738696152 LAMENTATIONS Aleksandrakozlova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738717790 The bride went to the yard at night to wail. That ritual symbolized the parting with her girlhood. Usually girls were taught to do this at the age of 7-8. If a bride was afraid of going out alone, she took her bridesmaids That ritual lasted for 4-5 days.
 

]]> 2023-10-09 19:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738717790 BRIDE'S PORRIDGE Aleksandrakozlova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738733971 On the Saturday, before the wedding day, there was the bride's porridge ritual. Each invited woman had to bring a pot, a bowl with porridge. They sat down at the table and put their porridge on it. ]]> 2023-10-09 20:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738733971 BATH OF GIRLHOOD Aleksandrakozlova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738741373 Before the wedding the bride had to go to a bath heated by her friends or sisters-in-law. ]]> 2023-10-09 20:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2738741373 MORDOVIAN WEDDING https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2741936234 A mordovian wedding is a lasting and ceremonial event, which includes many traditional moments and rituals.

Like any important event, a wedding consists of several stages:
1. Booze-up
2. The wedding preparations
3. The wedding day;


]]> 2023-10-11 14:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2741936234 WEDDING CLOTHES https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2741980765 Mordovian wedding clothes for the bride and groom are usually bright and colorful, reflecting the richness of Mordovian culture and its traditions.
Bride's clothes consist of:

1. A sweeping long shirt
2. Diversified pieces of jewelry
3. A distinctive headpiece and traditional boots;

Groom's clothes consist of:
1. The "panar", a broad style shirt that signified status.
2. "Ponks", traditionally designed pants that enhance masculine appeal.
4. A felt hat
3. A belt "kushak" and lapti;]]> 2023-10-11 14:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2741980765 NATIONAL COSTUME OF ERZYAN WOMEN specktra20 https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2742409197 - Erzyan traditional costume features three overlapping skirts.
- Their headdress, "soroka", tends to be larger than the Mordovian equivalent.
- Shirt decorations are distinct, usually adorned with sequins, gaitans, and beads.
- Hip jewelry is significant, symbolizing luck in marriage and protection from troubles.]]> 2023-10-11 19:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2742409197 WEDDING DAY nastyanikitinasar https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743162053 A traditional Mordovian wedding can be called a folk musical drama. Marriages were traditionally the responsibility of their parents and relatives. Often, when choosing a bride, the main attention was paid to the property status of her family, the girl’s hard work and health. ]]> 2023-10-12 07:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743162053 nastyanikitinasar https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743175051 At a Mordovian wedding, there are key characters who are given an important role. For example, a bridesmaid should go to all the houses before the wedding and invite relatives to the wedding. Next important person is the matchmaker (kudava). And last but not least is Uredev. His duty is to protect the bride and groom from evil eye throughout the wedding.]]> 2023-10-12 07:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743175051 THE FIRST MEETING nastyanikitinasar https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743177798 The first meeting of the married couple took place at stable or barn in winter and summer. This happened in the middle of the wedding: the bride was kidnapped and pushed into a barn. The groom was already there and then the bride was brought, with the words: “Wolf, here’s a sheep for you!” ]]> 2023-10-12 07:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743177798 nastyanikitinasar https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743181224 After church, the married couple were met not by their parents, but by a matchmaker. She had a loaf of bread in her hands - luvon kshi or luksh. Also married people had to kneel before their parents so that they would give their blessing to their marriage.]]> 2023-10-12 07:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743181224 MATCHMAKING lizasasova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743330895 Matchmaking is one of the main traditional stages of a Mordovian wedding. Originally, it was the groom's parents who chose the bride. 



]]> 2023-10-12 09:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743330895 PIVON' KUDA lizasasova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743340407 The traditional Mordovian holiday, which was celebrated in the autumn after the harvest. Young girls gathered in one house and show their ability to run a household. Here the boys' relatives were looking for a decent future wife for him.]]> 2023-10-12 09:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743340407 RITUAL PRAYERS lizasasova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743343837 When the groom's parents chose the bride before the matchmaking, they made a ritual prayer to the gods for the happiness of the future family. A generic candle was necessarily lit on the table, as a symbol of the hearth and home.]]> 2023-10-12 09:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743343837 MATCHMAKING lizasasova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743348401 The young man's parents came to the girl's parents' house three times before getting consent to the marriage. After that, the fathers of the bride and groom discussed the gifts and, if they agreed, the booze up began. ]]> 2023-10-12 09:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743348401 BOOZE UP lizasasova https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743354864 Booze up was a traditional celebration at which the groom's parents came to the bride's house to celebrate the consent to the wedding. The tables were covered with various festive dishes, everyone was drinking and having fun. Then the ceremony took place: the groom's father offered the bride a glass of alcohol with a coin at the bottom; if the bride drank alcohol and took out a coin, it meant that she was ready to get married.]]> 2023-10-12 09:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nastyanikitinasar/j1p7bogjz80yn82z/wish/2743354864