Update Monday, January 31, 2011: I can not resist hitting the great article from Mark Sanchez in the Diario de Navarra that date:
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She gets very nervous he does the same thing. That when the two walk together down the hallway of the house, he stops at the table one day they gave the lesakarra Juan Carlos Pikabea. "You're back?" She complains every time it happens. And he says nothing, trapped by the table the same way as a prisoner in jail.
She gets very nervous he does the same thing. That when the two walk together down the hallway of the house, he stops at the table one day they gave the lesakarra Juan Carlos Pikabea. "You're back?" She complains every time it happens. And he says nothing, trapped by the table the same way as a prisoner in jail.
His fingers run through different portions of the work, like pretending reproduce the author's brush strokes. She resigned, wait. As buds advance, he utters aloud what they cherish. "The Conical Hat ... ...", begins. "His films ... of many colors! ... ... In sheep's fur to keep warm ...". She waits. His fingers continue. "They tiptoed Petticoats ... ... And the swab ... horsehair."
- Baby, it's getting late, she tells him with a certain weariness.
- Do you hear? "I answered him.
- Honey ...
- The bells.
- Please ...
- Do you hear how they sound in the distance? And starts to shake the ground ...
's patience runs out it always in the same instant. In it. And always reacts the same: you go to the room and left alone in the hall to him, who also always thinks to himself: "Poor thing, he does not understand the pictures angry like me."
She returns.
- Are you blind, ci-e-go, do you remember?! - Yells at him.
And it becomes a go.
He smiles.
(Today at noon, the zanpantzar joaldunak Zubieta and will travel to Ituren Ituren morning to return the visit. Four miles on foot between the two locations, a carnival spectacle to see, hear and, above all, feel)]
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| ... With rhythmic and rhythmic movements, to sound their bells in unison ... |
Ituren and Zubieta, neighboring towns in the region of Malerreka (ta malda erreka : hill and river, at the foot of the imposing riverside Mendaur and Ezkurra), held together a carnival that is undoubtedly unique in the parades of Joaldunak (Joar : cowbell; Joal - in compound words; -dun : suffix indicating possession; -ak : plural:. Literally, "those bells).
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| The Mendaur from Zubieta (please do click on the image, you're going to move) |
this carnival is held on Monday and Tuesday following the last weekend of January. Therefore, this touches 2011 Monday 31 January and Tuesday 1 February . On Monday, around noon, Zubieta joaldunak leave for Ituren (about 3 km.). Are received by the district ittundarra (gentile those Ituren) of Aurtitz and together go to the neighborhood of Latsaga for, after passing over the bridge of Zubiburu, together with those of Ituren. At this point the joint parade of about forty or fifty joaldunak (between eighty and a hundred bells) which, after traveling around the core Ituren terminates at the town square.
day next Tuesday, are those which Ituren return visit to those Zubieta.
joaldunak The parade in two rows, with rhythmic movements and rhythmic, to ring their bells in unison.
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| Dressing in the attic of the Inn: part of the ritual |
Clothing Following
page Ituren City Council, the clothing of joaldun of Ituren consists of the following elements:
- Ttuntturo or conical cap, approximately half a meter in height, with colored ribbons and crowned with feathers.
- reddish scarf around his neck.
- shirt covered with a sheepskin as a great vest.
- Strip at the waist, which are supported, while hiding the strings that hold the bells.
- white petticoat on pants that reaches below the knee.
- Abarka 'rubber shoes', roped over white socks.
- Two large copper bells (with a capacity of approximately ten liters each) hanging from the waist and two little ones, by way of ornament, at the height of the back.
- A kind of whip called swab, made with horsehair, subject to the right.
The difference with joaldunak Zubieta is that their clothing does not include fur parka, with two small bells on his shirt which is white and in which the tissue of the neck, blue boxes, is smaller.
An interpretation
What does this ritual?
Given that the most characteristic and oldest of the joaldunak are the bells and the call "Swab" I think the explanation has to be tied to the traditional livelihoods of indigenous peoples: agriculture (broadly defined, including the agro-forestry) and livestock.
one hand, trying to dispel, through the din of the bells, those animals (wolves, bears, birds of prey ...) that could cause damage to livestock (horses, cows, sheep ... and, especially, their young).
On the other hand, that kind of whips, called "swabs" would scare function (whip) the evil spirits, mimicking the action of spreading the holy water (swab) especially forests, meadows, fields, orchards ..
Beyond words Says
page Ituren City Council:
"It should be noted that the implementation of the joaldunak zanpantzar name of Ituren and Zubieta has been made recently (from late 1960) by people totally unrelated to the people of Ituren and Zubieta, as a result of trying to find similarities or parallels the joaldun with other characters in Basque folklore, as Saint Pansard, Olentzero, etc. The name zanpantzar not has a tradition in both countries, who have not known or used another name than joaldun to call their historical character, namely joaldunak of Ituren and Zubieta.
birthplace of Joaldunak (which have recently been extended to other places), it seems most correct to ensure Ituren City Council to keep the original name.
But the council must also show, with much more force, his concern for the use of Joaldunak usually done systematically in some marches and demonstrations, especially independents. In them, unashamedly, is to associate elements of our culture Navarre (Euskera Olentzero Joaldunak ...) with ikurrinas, independence, or claims ETA prisoners of their environment.
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| Manipulate that something is! |
Ituren City Council, is well concerned about the words, by the name of Joaldunak originating in the race of the Ezkurra. But they can not close our eyes to some facts that you must know better than anyone. It would therefore be very welcome to pile on your page any sentence in which to show their revulsion at the hideous use made of a cultural element as old as your and our Joaldunak .
The best video on joaldunak
And as the best preacher is Fr example, I put these images available and Zubieta Ituren recorded around 1970 by Pius Caro Baroja , with texts by his brother in July , images hardly be repeated. They only appear you have to appear, without foreign elements without misuses, with respect y. .. crowds.
These images will be especially emotional for those zubitarras or ittundarras that after 40 years, are able to recognize them.
For example, the data give me your daughter and if I did I was wrong, here Erregerena Lazarus, when I was 15 years in 1970 and now 2011, 56:
Enjoy, Therefore, the best video ever made (or may already do) on Joaldunak. And best mode "full screen"
For example, the data give me your daughter and if I did I was wrong, here Erregerena Lazarus, when I was 15 years in 1970 and now 2011, 56:
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Erregerena Lazarus in 1970 with 15 years and in 2011 at 56. As the tango: That 41 years is nothing ...!  |
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| In the circle, Ayoroa Simon, born in 38, with 32 years |
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