TRAVELINGIN SPACE AND TIME WITH A WEDDING CUSTOM. Hypotheses about the origin, migrations and connections between the inhabitants of several settlements in Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria

  • Галин Георгиев Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей – Българска академия на науките https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2202-6407
  • Петър Добрев секретар на грамада (община) в с. Суворово
Keywords: wedding, migrations, Bessarabia, Tavria, Dobrudja

Abstract

The article traces the „movement“ of the pilior/pilevur wedding custom in parallel with the migrations of groups of the Bulgarian population in the 18th and 19th centuries to Bessarabia, Tavria and Dobrudja. The text compares the records of several generations of Bulgarian ethnographers and folklorists, including and the author's records, both in one and the same settlement and in other places. They reflect several successive stages of the existence of the custom, its various variants and modifications, as well as its local features in settlements and population groups thousands of kilometers apart. If the „movement“ of the piliora is a journey in space from the south in Thrace to the north and east across the Danube, then the clarifying of the etymology of this word is a kind of time traveling. It is of ancient Greek origin, it is used in the Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian languages ​​in its meaning of garden, yard. It appears in G. Rakovski's „Pokazaletz“ from 1859, but it is also found in a literary monument since the medieval epoch. At least as a name, it probably belongs to a very ancient layer in Bulgarian culture. Through the ritual texts and actions in the context of which we mostly meet it, which as a rule preserve similar relicts and antiquities, the word has been carried to present day.

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Published
2024-02-12
How to Cite
Георгиев, Г., & Добрев, П. (2024). TRAVELINGIN SPACE AND TIME WITH A WEDDING CUSTOM. Hypotheses about the origin, migrations and connections between the inhabitants of several settlements in Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria. Drinovsky Sbornik, 16. Retrieved from https://periodicals.karazin.ua/drinov/article/view/23175