THE DOUBLE WEDDING OF THE CHASHAN

The Chashan enjoy sexual freedom before the marriage, but this one is completely organized by the parents, without the young people c influence his decision. Generally a cow is delivered like dowry, although the rich families sometimes deliver two, in addition to other gifts in kind: rice, eggs, meat, wine.

The wedding day, the fiancé, the matchmakers and some young people of his circle set out in direction of the house of the fiancée with the gifts, where they are received touching the gong. There the matchmaker presents the gifts and a pig and a cow sacrifices itself to entertain the guests, before eating them, it is offered by rice wine and there eat up hard-boiled eggs marked with a red cross. Also a ceremony is done in honor of the god of the sky, on having finished, one will be done in honor of the ancestors. Then the elders are presenting the fiancé, one to one the relatives of the fiancée.

In the night he eats up, drinks and dances, generally up to the arrival of the dawn. The fiancé, after happening two nights at the fiancée's, returns to his hearth with all his courtship. Then the fiancée will leave the house of his parents, with new clothes and some articles about daily use, and it is accompanied by his relatives up to the house of the fiancé. On having come there, the fiancé also will kill a pig to entertain it to she and his relatives; and a rooster and a hen sacrifice themselves the god of the sky and other gifts the ancestors. Before the banquet the parents of the fiancé also will present the fiancée each of his relatives and to the chief of the clan. After the banquet, some aunts lead the fiancée to give a return for the house presenting the different dependencies to him. In the night he turns to sing and dance up to the dawn.

Three months after marrying still they return to the house of the fiancée taking some gifts as a token of respect to the family of the fiancée.

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