Zeleny Yuri - the main character of the same name youth roundabout ceremony performed on the eve or on the day of St. Yuri at the Croats and Slovenes .
Content
South Slavic rites
The rite is common in northwestern Croatia and in parts of the regions of Slovenia ( Bela Krajina , Dolenjsko , Halose , Styria , Carinthia ) and most often comes down to driving ( Slovenian. Jurja vodit ) the main ritual character ( Croatian Zeleni Juraj, Juraj, Zeleni Dura, zelenjak , Slovenian. Zeleni Jurij. sv, Šent jurja, Jurač, Jurek, vesnik and others), for which gifts are collected from home with songs [1] .
The names of the squad, consisting of two, three, five or more people, are mainly associated with the name of the holiday itself: Horv. zeleni Juraj, jurjaši, jurjevčani, đurđari , Slovenian. šentajurjaši , etc. It necessarily includes a food collector ( Croatian sluga or košarac ) carrying a basket. The participants of the round are boys or boys, less often - girls. The rite has a producing and protective character, which is associated with the magical power attributed to greenery, branches, which make up the decoration of the mummers. In the north-Croatian regions, elements of the ritual (pouring water on a participant decorated with greenery) bring him closer to the Dodol rite.
During the ceremony, the Slovenes of Pomurje sang:
We drive Green Yuri,
We ask for butter and eggs,
Banish Babu Yaga
Sprinkle spring!Original text (Slovenian)Zelenega Jurja vodimo,
Maslo in jajca prosimo,
Ježi-babo zganjamo,
Mladoletje trošimo! [2]
On the night of St. George’s Day, on the night before St. George’s Day, men weaved a huge basket of greenery, covered it entirely with greenery, wreaths and, turning it upside down, put it on the head and shoulders of the person who carried the basket around the village like that. The procession consisted of foot and horse men, decorated with flowers, some of them blowing trumpets and playing other musical instruments. They stopped in front of each house, where they performed Yuryev’s songs, which informed about the arrival of “Green Yuri”, and the owners in return awarded them and poured water from the pod [3] .
See also
- Egoriy Veshniy
- Removal of Marena
- Poplar driving
- Bush driving
- Royal songs
Notes
- ↑ Plotnikova, 1999 , p. 306-307.
- ↑ Pesmi obredne
- ↑ Plotnikova, 2004 , p. 314.
Literature
- Green Yuri / Plotnikova A. A. // Slavic antiquities : Ethnolinguistic dictionary: in 5 volumes / under the general. ed. N. I. Tolstoy ; Institute of Slavic Studies RAS . - M .: Int. Relations , 1999. - T. 2: D (Give) - K (Crumbs). - S. 306-308. - ISBN 5-7133-0982-7 .
- Plotnikova A.A. Ethnolinguistic geography of South Slavia . - M .: Indrik, 2004 .-- 768 p. - ISBN 5-85759-287-9 .