DESCRIPTION OF WEDDING AND FUNERAL CEREMONIES IN THE WORKS OF NIZAMI GANJAVI

Abstract

The reflection of folk customs, ceremonies, holidays, faith and beliefs in poetry is one of the key elements demonstrating the artist's connection with oral folk literature. The traditions associated with the wedding have always been existed among the people and have acquired a wide social content. In addition to the wedding, in Nizami Ganjavi's poems we come across other cere- monies reflecting folk traditions. They were described in poems written by the poet about mourn- ing. Such scenes as the mourning customs of the Azerbaijani people, as holding a funeral ceremo- ny, making a will, are found in some parts of his poems – on the occasion of the death of Farhad, Khosrov, Leyli, Iskandar, Makhinbanu, Bahram, Dara.