2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Ritual bread is bread with different types of purposes, which is baked on the occasion of calendar and family holidays. The decorations on the ritual bread have a symbolic meaning.
For different types of holidays there were special decorations that have a special meaning - for example, grapes are a symbol of fertility, which is thus prayed by higher powers. Thus, any bread with decorations, which was kneaded for a certain holiday, was a kind of prayer.
Ritual bread is not kneaded like any ordinary bread or loaf. In the old days, women dressed in their newest and best clothes when they had to knead ritual bread. For the kneading of the ritual bread, which was done early in the morning, the most expensive and good flour was used, and only wheat flour.
Even when the wheat was harvested, the best grains were separated, and after they were ground, they were sifted through the finest sieve. A consecration by a priest followed, which turned the flour into consecrated.
The ritual bread was kneaded with a special water called "silent". This is water that was carried from a pure spring before sunrise by a young girl dressed in wedding clothes, who had to remain silent until she took it to where it would be used to knead the ritual bread. Silence preserved the power of water and its magical energy.
When the ritual bread was kneaded, songs suitable for the upcoming holiday were sung. Once the dough rises, a loaf is formed and various dough decorations are placed on it.
Ritual bread was also kneaded for the upcoming wedding. Wedding cakes are decorated with figurines of animals on a tree, which symbolizes the beginning of a new family. For the wedding, bread was baked in the form of a ring, which symbolized the sanctity of marriage.
Ritual bread was also baked for St. George's Day - then it was decorated with figurines of sheep, shepherd dogs or shepherd's gag.
The purpose of baking different types of ritual cakes and cakes is their distribution and drawing to the participants in the festive table. Funeral rites required an odd number of cakes or loaves to be baked or forty. Special cakes were baked to appease the spirits of diseases - such as plague and smallpox.
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