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MIRILA

funeral memorial on Velebit

Mirila, this astonishing combination of tradition, mysticism and religion can be found only in southern Velebit. There is nowhere else. They are found in mountain passes over the Great Starigrad September, around the Paklenice.Najbrojnija around Ljubotići. There except mirila find and funeral crowd similar attributions. Mirila are associated with the soul of the deceased, this is not just taking a "mire" dead body nogo has a deeper meaning, mostly, and to this day a mysterious old ljubotičani and now say that the radio Mirilo rite of forgiveness of the deceased with the sun . (Known as the Zanki His mystical experience turned into performance mirila he performed in some countries of Europe). There are plenty of similarities with the tradition Patarene Greeks and Illyrians and just give us a little tion obtained secrets of this tradition that has largely died out completely. For example, a "secret place of power in the woods" are gone forever and mirila find the rugged Velebit abandoned and sometimes hardly noticeable.

When someone in the village died, his closest a relatives and friends, three days mourned the deceased, chatting at the same event, good and bad deeds and from his life. After the third day, early morning, before sunrise of the dead body is carried wrapped in cloth and placed on a wooden stretcher. Stopped exactly at a certain place, usually a mountain pass, where there were already other mirila arranged by the families of the deceased. And where the first branch sunce.Tijelo would be delayed on the ground, and below it were affixed flat sheets of rock that fit the length of the body and its širini.Uzele to measure the body. The feet are placed a stone with a naturally rounded end or after the order was preklesan in this form, and head to the keystone, similar form, but a little higher. These two stone measures are telling the height of the deceased. The ritual would be taking place at the time of sunrise, and the head of the deceased was facing east.

the keystone would then be carved with a sharp object is a symbol, depending on where you are and reconciles such as age, and has often happened that uklesavao and days after the ceremony. According to the symbols and the way the stone zaglavnog can determine the age mirila and drowning him completely in the symbolism of Christianity. The symbolism is most Christian tattoos used by women in central Bosnia and have similarities with the decorating tombstones. Then, in Bosnia there Manichaean Church Bosnian who knew the foundation of higher souls (Bogomil). These people have come (to avoid the Turks) from those parts of central Bosnia, and even some villages now carry a topo Ramići who were originally from the shoulder. Some popjegli of ecclesiastical Inquisition because they were declared heretics tortured and killed without mercy.

Mirilo not a tomb, although the keystone is the name of the deceased as well as on each grave, but there is no body. These people are the body was completely nebitno.Govorili the "hole in the body and the soul remained in Mirilo. on Velebit traditions say that there rests the soul that is close to the souls of the flock, and that body in the grave. Hence another name for Miriam - rested. Mirila are being built at the pass because they represent a kind of transition. Velebit, residents believed that the construction mirila help že soul at the turn of the cleaning you, which is delayed it travels to the heavenly kingdom. Similarly in the Himalayan passes believers predbudističke Bon religion, leaving piles of stones like the amorphous dolmen.

In terms of the cult, however, Mirilo a final resting place of the soul , which remains up in the mountain, together with the souls of sheep (according to the accounts of elderly women from the Velebit, cf. A. Faber l995, l63). Grave of the body, which is buried in the graveyard, it does not add a great importance, indeed the first occasion the bone from the family tomb povade, that gave way to the next race from the deceased. Prayers for the dead are carried out in the mountains, the Mirilo, this is contributing to the memory of the late gifts, flowers, food (fruits) and fell to candles to commemorate the day of the dead. (M. Trošelj, l992, 79)

The name mirila clarified the analysis of funeral rituals in the population of Northern Greece (N. Seremetakis, l99l, Margaret A. l974, l982 LMDanforth) According to the analysis of these authors, the most important part of the funeral was moaning (Greek miralogos, miraloi) and the name mirila together with the customs and beliefs about the afterlife probably passed and taken from the Vlach population (A. Faber l995 l57), which is the coastline of the Adriatic immigrated middle of the last millennium. We can not however ignore the eventuelne traces the tradition of the Illyrians, who were those residing in the mountain vastness of prehistory and even over the domination of Rome, leaving traces in the place names and remnants of material culture. The appearance of cenotaphs, mourning the dead and carrying the bones of the deceased in the country is known for anyway in ancient Greece, particularly over Homer, who is the life of the Greeks in ancient times so faithfully served, and today reader.

Each stone can be reconciled, Mirilo never be an ordinary stone.

decision of the Ministry of Culture of 27 December 2007. funeral customs related to mirila are property of non-material cultural goods within the meaning of the Law on the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

(used weekly Journal, Ž.Laslović; dr.A Faber)

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