Riazanskie svadebnye ritualy “katit’ stupu” i “ovin tushit'”

Abstract

Drawn on the field and archival data collected in the Ryazan region, the article examines the ritual of dispatching a wedding train for the wedding ceremony with stupa (mortar) as an important attribute of the ritual, symbolizing “burning” or “combustion”. The author uses an array of sources including descriptions of weddings and various genres of wedding folklore (wedding songs, sayings, proverbs, etc.) of the 19 th-21 st centuries, as well as folk vocabularies that help to reveal the semantics of the rituals investigated.