The national flag of Erzyan ( Erz. Erzyan rasken kotst , literally: Flag of the Erzya people ) - the national flag of Erzya , a people living in Russia .
| Flag of the Erzya people | |
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| Erzyans | |
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| Approved by | 04/16/2006 |
| Proportion | 1: 2 |
| Flag Author | Valentin Devyatkin |
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Flag Description
The size of the flag is 1: 2. It consists of three horizontal stripes of the same width, the upper one is white, the middle one is red and the lower one is black [1] . It was developed by Valentin Devyatkin and approved by the Mastorava Society in 1990. The primary colors “repeat the colors of the patterns of male and female Erzya national costumes” [1] .
Years later, the Erzyan flag was approved by the Congress of the Erzya People:
“The Erzyan Congress affirms a white-red-black (top to bottom) flag as a flag of the people's erzya, symbolizing in its colors the Freedom, Life and Earth of the Erzya people” [2] .
Flag Explanation
The black color is not only the color of the earth, but also the color of the bullet - the hip of the Erzya women’s national costume. This suggests the conclusion that for the ancestors of the Erzyan, black is not the color of mourning, but a color symbolizing fertility and the feminine. In a broader sense, this is Mastorava (literally Russian. Mother Earth from Erz. Mastor - earth, Erz. Ava - mother). If we assume that red is blood - a symbol of the Erzya people, and white - a symbol of Ineshkipaz ( Russian Supreme God ), then we get the following semantic series: "Ineshkipaz-Erzya-Mastorava".
In addition to the main interpretation of the meaning of colors, the following interpretation will also be considered reasonable: Mastorava (black), provides support and the life of an erza (red), who lives and works on it, above them Ineshkipaz (white), protecting and patronizing them.
Using the flag
The “black-red-white” tricolor is used both on official Erzyan holidays and in the ordinary, cultural life of the nation. The Erzyan flag is legitimate [3] for its people, being not even recognized by official authorities. Most of the holidays in which the flag is used have been hosted by the congresses of the Erzya people:
- April 16 - Erzyan Language Day [4] , [5] , [6] ( Erz. Erzyan Kelen Chi )
- Rural Prayer [7] ( Erz. Velen Ozks )
- All-Armenian prayer-holiday [8] , [9] ( Erz. Rasken Ozks )
- Congress of the Erzyan People [10] , [11] ( Erz. Erzyan Inekujo )
- Erzyan Lismaprya [12] , [13] .
- December 21 - Day of the epic "Mastorava" [14]
Among other things, the “Erzyan Raskenkoct” fluttered at the VI World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples [15] , at the Congress of MAFUN [16] , in the town of Hannya [17] , as well as in the Altai Territory [18] and the Nizhny Novgorod Region [19] .
See also
- Ethnic flag
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Flags of various nationalities of Russia (Russian)
- ↑ Resolution of the 2nd Erzyan Congress - 2nd Erzyan Inekujo, Present: 93 delegates from 10 regions of the Russian Federation. There were observers from Moksha, Tatar, Russian peoples. April 16, 2006, Saransk
- ↑ Erzyan flag (Russian)
- ↑ Erzyans celebrate April 16 Day of their native language - Erzyan celion chi (Russian)
- ↑ Chi Cell (inaccessible link) (ers.)
- ↑ Zrzyans celebrated Erzyan Keli Chi - Day of Erzya (Russian)
- ↑ Rasken '(Velen) Ozks (Russian)
- ↑ Erzyan ritual holiday Rasken Ozks through the eyes of the Chuvash (Russian)
- ↑ Rasken Ozks in Bolsheignatovsky district of Mordovia (Russian)
- ↑ Erzyan Congress is taking place in Saransk (photo, video) (Russian)
- ↑ Statement of the Executive Committee of the Erzya Congress of the People Archival copy of March 6, 2016 on the Wayback Machine (Russian)
- ↑ V Interregional festival of Mordovian national culture “ERZYAN LISMAPRYA”, Lukoyanovsky district (Russian)
- ↑ The festival “Erzyan Lismaprya” (Russian) was held in the Nizhny Novgorod Region
- ↑ December 21 - Day of the national epic “Mastorava” Archived copy of March 31, 2016 on the Wayback Machine (Russian)
- ↑ Erzyans raised their flag at the Finno-Ugric Congress in Hungary (2012) (Russian)
- ↑ Erzya people were represented at the MAFUN Congress under their Erzya name and under their national flag (Russian)
- ↑ Ten unforgettable days of the Erzya ensemble in Estonia (PHOTO) (Russian)
- ↑ Millennium with Russia (Russian)
- ↑ Folklore expedition to the Nizhny Novgorod region (Russian)