Currently, concepts such as "godfather", "godmother" considered obsolete.With the departure of the everyday life of religion, forgotten and were once a natural relationship between people.
If you ask a passerby: "Who is the godfather?"- Are rarely the answer is correct.And the word "godfather" almost irrevocably changed its meaning and became synonymous with cunning and close.
actually godfather - is the godfather and godmother - the godmother of the child.In the past they were his very close friends, almost family.
on the Cross was assigned the duty of help ensure that the child has grown spiritually and morally developed.And the responsibility for this they carried before God.Therefore, listen to the advice of godparents, they were respected people in the child's family.
In the understanding of the people of those times, "nepotism" was perceived as a spiritual kinship.Godparents were regarded as mediators between God and the child.It is now many do not know who is the godfather, and before the word was called a very close person.
In Russia was common proverb: "The spiritual kinship Forest carnal."Church forbidding marriage not only between godparents, but also between the godmother - the father of the child, the godfather - the child's mother.And not only the first but also the second-generation families such ties were not approved.
Those closer together spiritual kinship, were not allowed to marry.Because morality posed above bodily pleasures.
intimate relationship in the spiritual kinship perceived as "incest".After all, these people are at baptism renounced before God for the child of Satan.It was believed that entering into carnal relations, they went into the clutches of hell, and even for a child dragged.But man is weak, and there was everyone.Hence the saying: "godfather of Qom and one of Satan."
special role at the Cross was at weddings.They consulted about the choice of a pair, they blessed the young.
Today, few people realize who is the godfather.But before he put it on the child at baptism cross, which the people did not leave a lifetime.
Today, many of the concepts of morality and spirituality distorted or lost their significance.Institute of nepotism disappeared as superfluous.Older people still remember the echo of respect for the procession.But few of them know exactly - who is godfather.Because already at that time very few people baptized.Moreover, for a long time in our history, a rite considered asocial, was banned.
Today more common erroneous belief that the mother-in-law is a godmother, and vice versa.It is the same in the male hierarchy: "Who is the godfather? This guy's father, whom she is my daughter."And the fact that between them had no ties ... Nowadays, unfortunately, everything is possible.
dream books always reflect the underlying attitudes of man.So, most of them associated with the godfather feelings of annoyance, with the scandal.A godfather - gossip and cunning.
That is so degraded former Rus bright notion of nepotism.But no matter how humiliated history of Russian man, the people at the heart of his moral remains.And believers is growing.
