{"id":17135,"date":"2014-02-05T09:12:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotspots.net.hr\/2014\/02\/carnival-customs-of-the-dalmatian-hinterland\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:12:28","slug":"carnival-customs-of-the-dalmatian-hinterland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/croatia-hotspots.com\/en\/2014\/02\/carnival-customs-of-the-dalmatian-hinterland\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival customs of the Dalmatian hinterland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotspots.net.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pokladni-obicaji-Photo-Boris-Filipovi\u0107-Gr\u010di\u0107-mala.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/hotspots.net.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pokladni-obicaji-Photo-Boris-Filipovi\u0107-Gr\u010di\u0107-mala.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 15 February 2014, 8:30 a.m. the annual carnival pageant starts from the village of <strong>Gljev<\/strong>, popularly known\u00a0 as the<strong> Didi s Kame\u0161nice association<\/strong>. The way leads them through the villages of <strong>Gala, Han<\/strong> (Obrovac Sinjski)\u00a0 and back to the village of <strong>Otok<\/strong>. The pageant will lastuntil 5:00 p.m.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Annual Carnival Pageant from the Villages at the Foot of the Kame\u0161nica Mountain <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The annual carnival pageants in the villages at the foot of the Kame\u0161nica mountain, from the area of towns of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitsinj.com\/en\">Sinj<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tz-trilj.hr\/?show=55172&#038;lang=en\">Trilj <\/a>and the Municipality of Otok, have traditionally been held for a long time, handing down and preserving local carnival customs. In the villages of <strong>Gljev, Han, Bajagi\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>Gala<\/strong> carnival pageants have served as a unique and authentic way of presenting the age-old customs, interwoven with the sound of carnival pageant bells and other accompanying rituals.<\/p>\n<p>The invasion of an uproarious pack of colourful, unruly rams, known as the\u00a0<strong><i>Didi<\/i><\/strong>, marks the day of the carnival pageant at <strong>Gljev,<\/strong> a village in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitsinj.com\/en\"><strong>Dalmatian hinterland<\/strong><\/a>, not far from the border with Bosnia. A long-standing\u00a0 tradition of carnival customs, associated with the preservation of local identity, has been cultivated and promoted by the<strong>\u00a0<i>Didi s Kame\u0161nice<\/i>\u00a0association<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L5xIYen2KJU\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The carnival pageant is arranged following the strict tradition-based rules. At the head of it there is a white carnival pageant group with the\u00a0<i><strong>barjo<\/strong> (<\/i>standard-bearer) and a carnival wedding procession. They are followed by the\u00a0<i><strong>komedija<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>and a<strong> black carnival pageant group<\/strong>. The <strong>wedding procession,<\/strong> symbolic of <strong>spring<\/strong>, used to be led by the first\u00a0<strong><i>did<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0(an old man), and nowadays it is led by the\u00a0<strong><i>barjo<\/i><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A pregnant, <strong>mannish bride<\/strong>, accompanied by the\u00a0<strong><i>diver<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0(bridesman) is on the lookout for a bridegroom which is the very end of the pageant itself. The<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><i><strong>jenge<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>(married women) and the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><i><strong>jengije<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>(maids) as well as other wedding figures wearing formal dress (folk costume)also engage in the pageant. An Ottoman commands the both carnival pageant groups so that they do not mix, since they are not allowed to be in the same place and at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the\u00a0<strong><i>bula<\/i><\/strong>, a veiled female figure, trying to kiss a young woman. The figures of the Ottoman and the\u00a0<i>bula\u00a0<\/i>are associated with long-standing Ottoman rule in this area. The\u00a0<strong><i>komedije<\/i><\/strong>, a carnival pageant group criticising the current social and political issues, follows the carnival wedding procession. The black wedding procession is led by the\u00a0<i><strong>baba<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>and the\u00a0<i><strong>did<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>(an old woman and an old man). Being associated with the fertility cult, this couple simulates intercourse in order to yield a better crop.<\/p>\n<p>There are also the\u00a0<strong><i>\u017ealovice<\/i><\/strong>, widows letting out humorous wails. The most interesting participants, however, include the\u00a0<i>didi<\/i>. Up on their head they wear sheep fleeces, <strong>up to 1.5 metres in height<\/strong>, and<strong> bells around their waist.<\/strong> The\u00a0<i>didi\u00a0<\/i>are dressed in old shabby clothes with colourful fringes sewn on. They symbolise the ritual battle of good spirits with winter, chasing it away by making noise and jumping up and down.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the advancement of civilisation, men are still holders of this carnival custom, characterised by wearing animal costumes (costumes of rams) and the change of sex simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Similar carnival customs have also been preserved in the rest of the villages at the foot of the Kame\u0161nica mountain. Known as the Annual Carnival Pageant from the villages at the foot of the Kame\u0161nica mountain (<i>Godi\u0161nji pokladni ophod ma\u010dkara podkame\u0161ni\u010dkih sela<\/i>), these carnival customs have been included on the Intangible <strong>Cultural Heritage List of the Republic of Croatia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitsinj.com\/en\">visitsinj.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autor teksta: dr.sc. Giovanni Kezich, Dinka Alaupovi\u0107 Gjeldum<br \/>\nFoto: Boris Filipovi\u0107 Gr\u010di\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 15 February 2014, 8:30 a.m. the annual carnival pageant starts from the village of Gljev, popularly known\u00a0 as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carnival customs of the Dalmatian hinterland - Croatian Hot Spots<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Saturday 15 February 2014, 8:30 a.m. the annual carnival pageant starts from the village of Gljev, popularly known\u00a0 as the Didi s Kame\u0161nice association.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/croatia-hotspots.com\/en\/2014\/02\/carnival-customs-of-the-dalmatian-hinterland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Carnival customs of the Dalmatian hinterland - 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