Baby, is one phase of human growth in early life in the world. In terms of culture, phase of this baby have many rituals that are an homage, gratitude, and as the hope that someday it would become a human baby with the journey of life to the expectations of parents, and culture. Here are five ritual infant salvation of the world.
1. Baby Jumping Festival
People in Castrilio de Murcia with baby safety ritual, performed when the Feast of Corpus Christi, baby-jumping festival, where the baby will to safety ritual by to sleep on softmats. And safety of the major figures in the festival was a guy wearing a devil costume to jump past the mat. This is interpreted as self-purification of sins, and blessing of luck and health. Some of the rules derived from the religious leaders asked local clergy to stop this ritual take place routinely from 1620.
2. Crying Baby Sumo Festival
Men dressed players might be able to bring fear to some of us. You can imagine well what if the scantily clad men was holding a baby, most likely the baby will react with fear.
In Konaki Sumi, one of the celebrations in Japan, a pair of baby sumo players will be
picked up by this. The winner is the baby who will cry first. The festival is adapting the Japanese proverb "cry baby will grow quickly." Crying, in this festival, symbolizes a blessing for the health of the baby.
3. Edo Nagashibina
Edo Nagashibina is part of the celebration of Hina Matsuri, the doll festival held in Japan once a year. Edo is a tradition Nagashibana dolls away in the boat into a river. This tradition aims to keep the disaster and disruption of evil spirits especially for girls. The daughter uses the light-colored kimono would bring it, and give it on religious leaders to put in the boat. It is said that the doll to washed out into the river to symbolize all the misfortunes and disasters. And therefore, they all made to washed out away
from the little girl. The festival begins at the time of the period, and discontinued due to pollution in the river, many dolls are caught in the nets of the fishermen.
4. Baby Dropping Ritual in India
may be a fear for many mothers, but not for mothers in India. They will exult and shout a little fun while their babies were dropped from the top of the temple is 50 feet tall. For 500 years, Muslims in the west of India to continue this tradition which is believed to bring health and good luck to the babies. Areas which until now continues this tradition was Musti village in Solapur in profinsi Maharashtra region. When deployed from above the temple of the baby will be captured by any stretch of white cloth held by many people, after it was given to his mother. No babies were reported in an accident during this ritual. Several people from around the world opinion to stop this ritual because it is not very plausible, and some link it with health reasons.
5. Tedhak Sinten in the tradition of Java,
Indonesia
This tradition is a symbol of the
event where the child is celebrated as to stepped feet into the ground for the first time. Children will be dressed in clothing typical of Java. Before the ritual traces of soil, the child is guided by her parents to step over 'cobekan' (cobekan = tools made of stone to make the sauce) contain offerings of food made from glutinous rice and red white and yellow rice. After stepping on the 'cobekan' filled with food, then the child is led back to stepped feet to the ground, a symbol that the child will be ready to live their lives, with no escape from the guidance of his parents as well. The next child will be led to pursue a ladder made from sugar cane, symbolizing prayer that the child is sweet living.
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