CRADLE WEDDING CEREMONY AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

Cradle wedding (gavorabandon (cradle tying) ceremony) is usually organized on
Monday or Friday. It also has a strict order: in the front are the dancers on the wooden
legs, with the karas in their hands, and the trumpeters-trumpeters, they go in a long
line, followed by the women carrying the lali (tray) wrapped on the table with gifts on
their heads, and behind them the beshikbardar carrying the new cradle on his shoulder,
under the sound of trumpets and trumpets.