GENRE SPECIFICS OF CEREMONY FOLK ART IN SHIRVAN FOLK AT SETTING

Abstract

Traditional classification of household or “Family-household” ceremonies begin with birth and end with funeral ceremonies. These are the rituals and ceremonies held within the dialectics of human life traced from birth to death.
Household ceromemonies are mostly lyrical. The birth ceremony was not included in the study. There are indeed certain beliefs, praises, and glorifications about birth ceremonies as well. However these are not ceremonies themselves, but the samples relating to it before and after it, while we strive to discuss certain samples when we obtain them that originate from a ceremony, make up the very essence of ceremonies and rituals and have been subsequently developed. Namely because of it we have tried to focus our studies on wedding ceremonies without referring to birth ceremonies. When studying the genre traits of ceremonial folk art, we have tried to call our readers’ attention to the uniqueness of the ceremonial folk art in Shirvan folk art setting by presenting samples relating to original genres as beliefs and tests, proverbs and sayings, legends, narratives and etc., ancient genres alongside the original genres according to only traditional classification as shown above. We have even referred to ashiq art and substan-tiated ashiq repertory in wedding ceremonies by referring to respective sources.
Funeral ceremony is a must ceremony. While birth and wedding ceremonies may not be realized in certain cases (because of infertility and celibacy), the death ceremony is an act that will take place sooner or later.