MUDOR SUAN


Meaning of MUDOR SUAN in English

Ceremony in which the Votyaks or Udmurts (peoples of the Ural Mountains) consecrated a new family or clan shrine when the ancestral home was too small to accommodate all its members and a new site had to be blessed.

The main ceremony consisted of taking ashes from the hearth of the ancestral shrine ( kuala ) and transferring them to the shrine at the new location, which was then considered a subsidiary of the ancestral kuala .

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