First of all, to the rite of the birth of secondary resorted naturally in cases of adoption with the aim to transform the adopted child is adopted in the blood of the mother.Thus, the historian Diodorus of Sicily wrote that when Hercules was elevated to the rank of gods, his divine father Zeus persuaded his wife Hera to adopt illegitimate Hercules and recognize him as their own son.Accommodating the goddess went to bed, Hercules pressed to his body and dropped it on the floor out from under his clothes, simulating the actual delivery.The historian adds to this, that in his time the barbarians used the same procedure when adopting a boy.
In the Middle Ages this form of adoption is respected in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.Adoptive parents or usynovitelnitsa taken to adopt a child under his robe, and sometimes it passed under the folds of loose clothing.That's why adopted children were called "children of the mantle."
Some handwriting contains the story of how the very day when the Muslim warrior Mudarra was baptized and knighted, his adoptive mother put on top of the dress is very wide shirt sleeves which pulled the knight and passing it through his shirt collar,than recognized him as his son and heir.This ceremony served as a thought common form of adoption in Spain, there are also reports that he had been distributed and the South Slavs.
For example, in some parts of Bulgaria, the mother puts the child to be adopted at their feet, and then passes it out under her dress to her chest.The Turks in Bosnia the mother pushes the child to adopt through their trousers and thus simulates childbirth.In general, the Turks adoption of a common phenomenon, and the ritual is that the adoptee has to be passed through the shirt of the adopter;Therefore, the concept of adoption in Turkish expression denoted "skip person through the jacket."
on the island of Borneo observe a curious symbolic rite in the adoption of another child.To persuade one another with respect to adoption, the husband and wife in the weeks before the ceremony refrain from anything forbidden in the last months of pregnancy.Also prohibited some actions that can cause an idea of difficult or prolonged labor.On the appointed day the foster mother reclines at home, wrapped in swaddling clothes in a pose of a woman about to give birth.Child pushed back between her legs, and if it is a baby, she gives it to suckle.Then he is given the new name.
the custom pastoral tribe bagima, in Central Africa, a man who has remained in the hands of the children of the deceased brother, brings them one by one to his senior wife, and covers the edge of her dress, and she raises the children and concludes in his arms, a confessionhe considers them his own children.After that the husband takes the strap used to strenozhivaniya restive cows during milking, and tighten it around the waist of his wife like that, as do the midwives to women in childbirth.
much more difficult and more costly ceremony of secondary birth, when you need to restore the sinner to a new life of noble birth or high rank.In the XVIII century.Ragoba ruler, sent to England as ambassadors of the two Brahmins, who sailed to the Isthmus of Suez sea, and made the return journey through Persia.And they had, of course, cross the river Indus.When they returned home, they were looked upon as renegades, as when traveling on other people's edges, they say, lived among unclean people and could not comply with the rules prescribed by the sacred books of the Hindus.The question of which was discussed at numerous meetings;everywhere flocked scientists Brahmins.Ragoby influence and authority were not able to save his ambassadors.Finally
holy meeting decided that, taking into account their previous achievements and the motif itself traveling to distant countries solely for the good of the motherland, they may be allowed to be reborn to a new life and get re-dedication in priestly orders.For this purpose, entitled to make a solid gold image of feminine nature as a woman or a cow.A person undergoing a revival, is placed inside the statue and pull through the usual generic way.Since such a golden statue of appropriate size would be too costly, it is sufficient to produce an image of the penis, through which revives.Ragoba ordered to make such an image of sufficient quantities of pure gold.Having been subjected to the rite of the birth of the secondary, committed all the ceremony, placed at the dedication in priestly san,
rite of rebirth was used in India as a means to raise low-caste man on a public stage on which it is his real birth had no right.For example, the Maharaja of Travancore belong to the Sudras, that is, to the lowest of the four major Indian castes, but always erected himself to the rank of the Brahmins, the highest caste of components by means of a secondary rite of birth from a large golden cow or a large lotus flower, also made of gold.
Based on the book by J.. Fraser's "The Golden Bough".
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