To the Description of Attributes and Symbolism of the Don Wedding (With Some Common-Slavic Parallels)

Occupation: Senior Researcher
Affiliation: Federal Research Centre the Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation

Journal name

Slavianovedenie

Edition

Issue 6

Pages

44-60

Abstract

The article deals with ritual usage, terminology, cultural semantics, origin and areal distribution of the attribute of a Don wedding – two bottles tied together with alcoholic beverages. The author reveals the key characteristics of this object symbol caused by the deep ideas of the Slavs about the marriage transition of the young people: the connection with the cow-bull symbolism, pairing, red color, the semantics of the redistributing the total fate between the participants in the ritual, the change of the newlyweds’ social status. The main actions made with such vessels on the second day of the wedding (ritual theft, ransom, distribution of their contents among the guests, etc.) are organically inscribed in the cultural semantics of this stage of the ritual and are aimed at the final transition of the young woman into the husband’s family. A mapping of the terminology of bounded bottles with alcohol showed the heterogeneity in the distribution of their names in areas inhabited by the descendants of the Don Cossacks, due to the peculiarities of the settlement of the territory of the Province of the Don Cossack Host.

Keywords

symbolism of objects, bulls, second wedding day, dividing the loaf, Don Cossacks, Province of the Don Cossack Host.

Acknowledgment

The article was prepared as part of the implementation of the state task of the SSC RAS (project no. 122020100347-2 “Political and socio-cultural processes in the South of Russia in the context of modernization (17–21th centuries)”)

Received

22.11.2023

Publication date

10.04.2024

Number of characters

32923

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GOST	Grevtsova T. To the Description of Attributes and Symbolism of the Don Wedding (With Some Common-Slavic Parallels) // Slavianovedenie – 2023. – Issue 6 C. 44-60 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://slav.jes.su/S0869544X0028744-1-1 (circulation date: 18.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0028744-1
MLA	Grevtsova, Tatyana "To the Description of Attributes and Symbolism of the Don Wedding (With Some Common-Slavic Parallels)." Slavianovedenie 6 (2023):44-60. DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0028744-1
APA	Grevtsova T. (2023). To the Description of Attributes and Symbolism of the Don Wedding (With Some Common-Slavic Parallels). Slavianovedenie (6), pp.44-60 DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0028744-1

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