ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 4

Customs and ceremonies related to water at the shrines of jizzakh region

1Assistant Professor, Historical Sciences Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.), Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute, Uzbekistan

2Historical sciences Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.), Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute, Uzbekistan

Online published on 18 May, 2020.

Abstract

In this article the present forms of the customs mixed with the ancient religious beliefs related to water and held by the population of Jizzakh region at the sacred visitations and shrines of the oasis, the essence of the ceremonies related to calling the rain are described as well on the basis of ethnosociological researches and the analysis of scientific literatures

Keywords

Jizzakh Oasis, Mountain, Foothill, Desert, Sacred Visitation And Shrine,