SYMBOLISME DES OBJETS DANS LES RITES DE PASSAGE NUPTIAL
SYMBOLISM OF OBJECTS WITHIN THE NUPTIAL RITES OF PASSAGE

Summary/Abstract: The scientific research of the ritual of the nuptial passage is not limited to the simple description of the facts, but also involves a systematization of various incarnations, a structural analysis of these to establish categorical models, then, by comparison of models, a typology. structural. Most of the symbols present in this nuptial ritual are linked to the idea of forming the couple, of unifying two polar principles, masculine and feminine, which in the thought of the ancestors were placed at the foundation of the whole edifice of the world. The folk texts, composed of prayers, songs and cries, present during the ceremony of the wedding flag, as well as the dramatic and acting elements as well as all the ritual objects involved, we consider to be subordinate to the founding of a family, the union of the two young people the vision of a new type of social, emotional and moral existence. The scenario is charged with the drama of the unification of opposites, tensions and conflicting states that accompany the harmonization of the two complementary principles. Being an act of ritual communication, this ceremony is carried out through actions and objects of symbolic value.

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