Kaybolmaya Yüz Tutan Bir Halk Geleneği:Çelüm Çelüm Çemçecük veya Çemçegelin
A Folk Tradition Which is Almost Extinct Çelüm Çelüm Çemcecük or Çemçegelin

Summary/Abstract: Water, which has a vital value for all human being, and rain that is the source of water has been naturally blessed in our culture, the absence of water and rain has made the society worried. This worry caused society to question in themselves, investigate and find ways of generating solutions by themselves. As a result of these searches, solutions generated by the society has become the culture by being approved in time, transferred from generation to generation, and formed the important milestones of our culture. It cannot be expected the children, who are members and future of society, to be away from the life style, beliefs, emotions, shortly the folk culture they see from adults. As a natural result of this situation, children are the members who keep the culture alive by living the culture and carry it into the future. Although Çelüm çelüm çemcecük or çemçegelin represents a belief by its occurrence, children have adopted it and changed it into game and played an important role in its spread and keeping it alive. This belief and game, though has a place in different provinces in different shapes as in all folk culture values, is one of the values that comes to our minds and that is about to disappear when Muş culture is mentioned. The game which is played with chants and Turkish poems is both a tool of fun for kids and a folk pray to bring the rain.

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