Dovište na Tirinovcu kod Prokosovića
A pilgrimage on Tirinovac near Prokosovići, the municipality of Lukavac

Summary/Abstract: The maintenance of prayer in our region has the continuity from ancient times until today. Old beliefs, cults (of peaks, water, rain, Sun) are transferred back from the pre-Slavic and Old Slavic spectrum of belief. They obtain their special forms in the Middle Ages, during the existence of the medieval Bosnian state and Bosnian church, where prayers are held in the open air (pilgrimages, gatherings). Even after embracing Islam in Bosnia, the tradition of prayer in the open, mostly in the same place, with the same or similar motifs, remains preserved, but with other religious rituals (prayers and duas). One of the most famous pilgrimage sites in northeastern Bosnia was precisely on the hill Tirinovac, above the village Prokosovići in Lukavac municipality. In that area, the prayers were held since the Middle Ages, shaped into duas in the Ottoman period, remaining as such until 1940. Duas were performed every year, on a certain day in the second half of May, primarily for the purpose of rain, but for a fine weather and a fruitful harvest in general, as well.

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