KULTI I LISIT NË TRADITËN E BREGDETIT TË JONIT
THE TRADITION OF OAK CULT IN THE IONIAN

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this study is the impact of oak cult (valanidh) in the determination of social and psychological characteristics and the way of living to the coastal residents of Ionian Sea through the centuries. Through the treatment of this topic it is aimed to reflect and to argue that to study myths and cults means to find out the way how people present themselves and the relations with the world in which they live. A myth and cult can’t be broken down and analyzed without doing research on the operation that he performs, in the society that is displayed. So disappearance, regeneration even their birth are important elements of anthropological types of search. The oak cult is present in view of a) habitat (for buildings made of its wood), b) food (his fruits after milling are used as food), c) their emblematic power is related to the prophetic characters of Zeus sanctuary, d) decoration (cures of Pyrrhus), e) the taboo: tranches and chains can’t be broken, f) the blatting- near the centuries oak trees are caught curbans secretly and their heads are put in oak cavities, g) as a material for the contraction of the coffin of the deadmans, which had been made of oak wood, h) as vegetation cult, in which wasn’t feel to the man only the rhythm of epochs as a manner of founding. They were not limited only in monitoring and raising the real value by integrating with the enternal but they were discovering at the same time the identity of human and vegetation. Evidence are coming all along the historical evolution so the sum up it still exists social echo of the oak cult through the oral creativity, concentrating on the explanations which they have an important part in the society showing the values not only of the special residents of Ionian coast but and of other social groups.

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