Забулване и отбулване на невестата в традиционната българска сватба (Семантика и митология па обредите)
Veiling and Unveiling of the Bride in the Traditional Bulgarian Wedding (Semantics and Mythology of the Rituals)

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the semantic and mythological meaning of the veiling and unveiling of the bride at the wedding. Separate elements of the rituals are followed: time, space, ritual personages and objects, etc. Special attention has been paid to the chromatic code of the wedding rites associated with the bride's head and hair. Numerous regional and local variants outline the ample possibilities provided by the ritual for the varied external layout, whereby the uniform meaning of the ritual actions is preserved. The veiling and unveiling are interpreted successively as bringing the bride and bridegroom together, their marital "demise" and the new return into the world of the living with the child of the marriage. The organic relationship has been followed of this range of actions with the fundamental structure of the wedding. Essentially, the veiling-unveiling chain is perceived to be a story using specific means of expressing and telling the same which the wedding, as a whole, tells.

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