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The water in the Folk tradition
Μαρία Λιάκου
Μέλος Παιδαγωγικής Ομάδας
Κέντρου Περιβαλλοντικής Εκπαίδευσης Κιλκίς
To water is not a commercial product like
any other but, rather,
a heritage which must be protected,
defended and treated
such it is!
The water in the Folk tradition
The years pass, but the stories of ancient Greek mythology follow
the historical trend. Changing shape perhaps, certainly adapt to
new conditions of life of the Greeks, but modern Greek tradition is
full of all these Wives, like they call, the sources of water. Fairies
and Dragons, Ghosts, elves and gnomes flooded the Greek folk
culture and accompanied the lives of people in their events. Myths,
legends, traditions demonstrate the ubiquity of chthonic life-giving
gift.
The Nereids
The Nereids
The Nereids worshiped as godesess of calm seas, friendly people,
according to Greek mythology, was a nymph who personified the
conditions and characteristics of the sea. They were daughters of
Nereus and Oceanid
They were around fifty.
They lived on the seabed, in the palace of their father and spent
the day swimming and playing with dolphins, or sitting on golden
thrones or rocks singing and weaving or drying the rich and long
hair
The Naiads
The Naiads
The Naiads mythological persons were nymphs of lakes and rivers,
and gave their name to the sources with which they are associated.
Krinides, Potamides, lake or Limnakides,.,Eleionomoi etc. Their
father, according to Homer, was Zeus.
From Naiads originate the fairies of modern times.
Fairies
Fairies
Their name comes from the Nereids, sea nymphs who identified
with the Nymphs of sources. Occur in caves, sources close to wells,
rivers and fields and threshing. Also distinguished local and
foreign. Local is good and protect their fellow countrymen, while
any other is dangerous.
The beautiful fairy with long hair and white dresses are good and
positive, although they can be dangerous. The ungly and dressed in
black is always bad. They tend to shout passersby and if someone
tricked and replied, losing his voice.
Those found in spas only treat those who come silent with fear and
respect.
Dragons
Dragons
Dragons are mythical monsters holding water sources (Drakoneri).
Myths about the dragon that prevents the use of water and the hero
who kills him there are many peoples and religions. In the
Christian religion such hero is Agios Georgios.
Other times Dragons of rivers appear very sensitive and romantic.
In many regions of Greece (Crete, Peloponnese, the islands of the
Aegean) believed that water one hour sleeps at night. Anyone who
wants to drink should woken gently by hand, otherwise the water
resents and gets his mind.
The magic of the water
The magic of the water
As a perpetual source of life, water was associated with the concept
of immortality. Mantic properties have been attributed to the use
of the various stages of human life aimed at cleansing and looked
to atoning power.
so:
• The hours of labor in throwing water rates to roll the baby "like
water."
• After the wedding, the bride makes the "treat tap" on tap that
offers bread or fruit, to placate the forces of water.
• In death, poured all the water in the house to launder the miasma
of death and those involved in the funeral should wash their hands.
• The drinking water of forgetfulness dead to forget the world upon
it.
Customs
The silent water
The silent water and this is a remnant of the "Prevention and
superstition" of our people. The morning of the New Year, the
housewife was getting up, and in some places continued custom,
and took out a stone courtyard, which put the fireplace. Then go to
the tap to get the "silent water". It is called so because it did not
speak to anyone going or coming. There she threw wheat or cheese
saying:
"As the water runs, run the goodies in your home."
Then flipped her house with water, without removing silence and
just went into the house saying "xronia polla" to her own. The
silent water poured on four corners of the house, "to run all year
goodies like water."
The Klidona
The Klidona
The Klidonas is a custom with roots in ancient times, the prevailing
'Klidona'. Klidona means acts or words random and disjointed,
which sounded during divinatory rituals and assigned prophetic
significance.The Klidonas animates the day of St. - John on June
24.
The Celebration begins on the eve of the big fires that are lit and
jump even children. Then the unmarried girls bring from the well
the silent water and emptied at clay pot, throwing in a personal
and usually precious object.
Then obscures the clay pot and leave it all night under the starry
sky. The next day opened with songs the clay pot and each one gets
behind the object that is owned. As the sun reigns each girl fills her
mouth with a sip of water speechless, standing in front of the
window and wait until she heard the man's first name. This is
thought to be the name of the man who will marry her.
The Perperouna
The Perperouna
The Perperouna or perperitsa is a custom that existed in certain
areas of Greece mainly in villages in Thessaly, Macedonia and
Epirus and kept even nowadays, where Vlachs live.
The purpose of this custom is to prevent drought. Young girls
gathered in groups and having between them the "Perperouna" a
girl adorned with branches and flowers holding a pan on her head,
turning the houses singing:
Pirpirouna walks
God pleases
to throw a rain
a gentle rain
a birth to our grains
and corns
The villagers come to their doors, throwing water into the pan and
filefoun girls with money and sweets, believing that this will cause
the rain.
Riddles, adages
Riddles, adages
The imagination, the poetic and satirical mood of our people,
captured the power of diversity and the value of water in proverbs,
riddles and related expressions so enriching and embellishing our
popular reason.
Some proverbs related to the water and have an allegorical
meaning is
"often go the pitcher of water, but once it breaks," says
that while often trying something risky and achieve should not take
it for granted, because one day it will fail.
The adage "the water with fire can’t be relatives" used for
things completely opposite.
To show that with patience and perseverance we can achieve great
things, but also to denote the value of saving, say the adage "drip -
drip fills the wide pitcher."