Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The story about Galichnik wedding

The Miac region is a renaissance epicenter in the Galichnik area from the three ethnographic and spiritual, empires, the Miac region - linguistic ethnic, national and individual, material as well as spiritual.Galichnik - Master piece of creating miac hand-houses-towers. Almost, within four decades, with small interruptions, on St.Peter's Day (12 th July), an atractive tourist manifestation called "Galichnik wedding" is held - unique of this kind in our country and wider. "Galichnik wedding" in its existence contributed to cherish tradition of the wedding customs and rituals of the inhabitants from the region in order to preserve the original folk songs, horas and to far away famous Galichnik peasant costume - made with filigree tailors accuracy, to preserve Galichnik which within the period of 1970-ies of thus century could be completely "dead".So,this manifestation contributed paving with asphalt the path through Bistra, from Mavrovo to Galichnik in 1974, started renewing of the Galichnik houses which are with very specific and authentic architecture, and building new ones. Galichnik wedding - The BrideBride on Galichnik wedding All this allows returning the life in Galichnik and there had been succeeded to live in life from St.George's Day to St.Mitre's Day, although some efforts are made to alive the place during winter months, permanently the whole year. St.Peter's "Galichnik wedding" is rich with lots of original and unique and unrepeatable wedding customs and rituals. During the wedding days, the zurle clucks and the drums echo from Galichnik to Reka, with all underground and on the earth echoing towards the stone of Bistra and the firmament. Those accompanist of migrant workers from this area of Macedonia, always announce the Galichnik wedding with its witnesses of wedding. And even today one message is still actual from the folklore song in wing the singer, on this day, sings and tells the Galichnik migrant worker like this: "Where You are - for St.Peter's Day to be at home." And it is true: The Galichnik migrant workers spread all over the world without lamenting neither money nor time to be at home this day - among theirs. And now as before, Galichnik on St.Peter's Day come to their Galichnik and among their families and relatives. Teshkoto, Macedonian DanceTeshkoto - Galichnik wedding Within two days, they gather themselves and perform the wedding ceremonies connected with the Galichnik wedding which lasted whole week half century ago. And the year, great number of wedding customs will be performed and swoon on Galichnik wedding day such as: expecting of the drums, mother - in law's hora, taking the bridal to the village fountain for water, hanging the wedding flag, invitation of the deaths, shaving the son - in - low, to bake the bread, wedding in the church St.Peter and Paul and customs dying slowly but which contain and hide many details from the Galichnik man's life in the past. Pitcures from Galichnik weddingPictures from wedding in Galichnik Every year, on St.Peter's Day, Galichnik will look like in the past, when there was life there. The people of Galichnik will remind themselves of their past, unforgettable time filled up with joy and sadness and on Upia "The Teshkoto" will be danced, a symbol of the difficulties and invincible clever people much suffered but always successfully passing over the various troubles in the period covered with a web-net. Following the Galichnik wedding will be special experience both for the guests and for the foreign visitors. To see all those beauties and features of "Galichnik wedding" You should come to Galichnik and to be present on this wedding spectacle. Galichnik wedding

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