Siwa Oasis .. The Story Of Amazing Oasis

In the heart of the desert and away from the cities

, construction of hundreds of kilometers away is one of the areas that once the spots under your feet until it stops, your time and return your accelerator for thousands of years, only to find the world of strange and wondrous mix the reality with superstition and mixes tales myths and adjacent ritual with feasts and celebrations; to make us know a myth called Oasis "Siwa" Egypt, the most beautiful stories of where they are all at a time of no longer amount of time permitted Bagi, after he entered the mill his family life that does not stop.

It is difficult if you want to talk about the Egypt Tours and Oasis of Siwa to convince the major impact that you are speaking in the present and not the distant past and even more difficult to search for the starting point, in what legend strings start: the dignity of Mr. Solomon? Or Mount Dakrur??

Can start from the story of Mount Ogress or dead .. I do not know .. Vagayat and myths and customs of this rich wealth of scenic spot .. But let's start from the call of Sheikh Tripoli that left its mark on everything in Siwa.

Call of Sheikh that hit an oasis neighbor

Sheik Trabelsi came from Libya to Saudi Arabia on his way on foot to perform the Hajj, he passed by Oasis, "neighbor" or "or small" an oasis Alsewep Frhqh some small boys with stones, he called them, Sheikh lack of birth control, has been.

This is settled in the memory of the people of the oasis, which is the smallest oasis in Egypt, where a population of only 340 people did not increase in their body, and there is old belief among parents that if they Onajabua children in the morning, the elders of the older die in the evening, and happened to be a lot of what was happening that.

When visiting the oasis of neighbor you have to cross 130 km from Siwa Oasis, until you reach this oasis, surrounded by the outside wall like walls, castles door and only one close to their populations in the evening for fear of hyenas that live heavily on the boundaries and threaten the people of the oasis and kill their wealth of animal.

And the "neighbor" who until the 1952 revolution did not know a form of currency sufficient barter, and they live - until now - on olive and dates and use it to barter what they need of the population of other villages and outsiders, who are in their lives like Bjaddarip obsolete, since time immemorial do not think only in the call of Shaykh al-Trabulsi, and pray to God to end this curse that struck their descendants!.

Holiday moon nights

Every year when they month of October, when the full moon begins celebrations of the people of Siwa, a remote moon nights, or "Feast of Peace", when the foot of Mount Dakrur meet Alsiuyon old men and young people, women and children, leaving their homes, coming together at one table, with each carrying a tribal sheikh table of food on his head to make all people, there is no difference between rich and poor, and they start eating before the launch of the go-ahead from someone called example sitting in the top spot on the mountain, and then begin the celebrations and songs of the most important festivity in Siwa. And when evening on the first day of the celebrations sitting tribal elders tell stories of tournaments and address of the invaders, and the glories of Siwa and old tell-month story of reconciliation, a reconciliation is high between Alsewein Eastern and Western, which was a tribute to Sheikh Ahmed Zafer civil marry between east and west of there is tolerance and go differences, and here made the day every year a good memory to celebrate a national holiday of peace to the oasis.

In the "Day of reconciliation" to be held reconciliation to resolve the differences between tribes, and after reconciliation deals with all food, evidence of the end of any discounts taken place over the year.

On the third day wearing one white robe and went around to homes to take up all the house of something eaten, and done a great feast gather parents her again; confirmation of Tsafi and tolerance, called the meal "Puff" and visit this day - Holiday moon nights - about 30 thousand visitors and tourists each year to watch this ancient ritual Alsewep.

Mount Dakrur

And Mount Dakrur is the mountain which is in a "gala annual Peace" which is located about 5 km south of Siwa, and is characterized by mountain Bajwa health and meets the fresh water used sand in the treatment of arthritis through the pools hot sand, where there are five types of specialized of these baths, and there specialize in certain bodies buried bodies of those who suffer from the pain of rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammation of the nerves, and vary according to the bathroom sandy condition.

In Mount Dakrur There are also tombs carved in the rock dating back to the Ptolemaic era thousands of years ago, and there are two mass large easily accessible, and all the graves are free of inscriptions on the walls.

Costume works

Clothing and girls Alseweat Ithalin its silver jewelry, is the first thing that attracts attention to those who visit this oasis, They wear brightly colored clothes with long sleeves and wide, around their necks, and wore decades of beads. Are still some girls combing their hair in braids multiple, and spend her hours in the styling, and every time you go out women Alsewep to visit close to or greeting a neighbor of the birth of a new she wears several dresses over each other, whatever the number, the garment outer must be black embroidered motifs busy multi-colored silk.

Inside the home is for women to take off her clothes Alsewep black dress is and remains a rich color and long sleeves wide.

And jewelry Alsewep consists of bracelets wide silver rings, different types of contracts and private contract called the "good works", which consists of six pieces on the crescent shape, is placed between each two silver and coral, and glows women Baloaqrat, which are either light hanging from the hole of the nipple and ear or Heavy hanging on both sides of the head in the same level as the ears.

The Costume of some women in wealthy families more than ten pounds, and the two main Ahalitan "agrochemical" a silver-rich woman eager to wear it in Siwa. And "Commentary" an earring dangling on the side of the head of each part consists of several silver chains are installed in the crescent-shaped ornament, and end of each series of Bgelgelp, and cosmetics when women are Alsewep kohl and natural herbs.

Mubarak wedding

On the afternoon of the marriage the bride is a happy her clothes and go directly in the company of some women of her family and a few male relatives to wash her face and hands and feet in the eye of Tammous, among more than two hundred eye and a fountain for drinking and medication filled oases of Siwa, to bless this marriage, and when this eye blessed the belt off and give it to her mother or one of the aunts to be used by one of the daughters of the family in the future.

Remains women who had attended the songs in the way of the eye so Rjuahn Iqapelln women of the groom who was in waiting for transport at a particular place, then all go to the home of the bride, groom and in the evening to go to the bride's house and start dancing, music playing and then take his bride to his home.

And the wedding feast called "Alozkap", a food common in the Siwa Oasis offers to the guests of the wedding party and bride in clothes for their wedding night seven Dresses on top of each other; the first is adjacent to the skin to be white light, transparent, and the second red, transparent, and the third black, and the fourth yellow, V Blue, and VI silk pink, and the seventh is outside of the green silk. Above all, this special bridal gown embroidered with dots Ghali costs around the neck, and put on her head scarf of red silk.

Birth of a child

Celebrations of the birth of many children, especially if his or her parents were from a wealthy family, and after birth, midwife supervised by lay women Rug spread on the ground for seven or ten days, and visited in this period only friends and confidante. The seventh day is a day celebrations; as it comes the woman's relatives and friends bringing their children to celebrate newborn involved women in the preparation of a special meal on this occasion enter into brands salted fish, and this kind of food tradition dragged it named after the birth of Sir Solomon Imam Alsewein.

Begins with the father and the mother naming the child after this meal, and then potentially marking the cheeks of the child and on his nose and legs using the paste of henna, and then pushed the crowd into the streets and markets, and calling the top of their voices on behalf of the child and his father's name, and then to leave the children brought a pot made of clay , where lies the mother in the room and have the pot filled to the middle of water with each woman threw jewels inside the pot and women are loop around him, raising him amid hymns pursued negotiable invitations for a child to live a happy life, then lifted the pot up and down seven times, then break the jar parts and restore every woman jewels. It is believed that breaking the pot the potter works to prevent the evil of envy and ensures the child a happy life.

In the case of the first birth father calls the barber and is giving the child's hair such as the weight of silver, that the family is poor or the case, such as the weight in gold if she is rich.

Ogress and the evil spirit

Ogress is

Alsewep woman whose husband dies, people of Siwa believe that the widow has a strong eye envious bring bad luck to those who are on it!

When the dying man the widow poor, which may not exceed seven ten-year-old accompanied by her family back to the "eye Tammous" which washed the day of her marriage to take off there jewels and clothes as usual and dressed in a white mark on grief and mourning, and living in complete isolation for forty days; should be through not to eat anything from meat is not allowed in this period to wash or change her dress, and then remain years after the death of her husband does not have the right to marry only after!

Who are the Alsiuyon?

The people of Siwa are all Muslims and most of them belonging to the way Alsnocp-infested North Africa, or the way in the field, which ends with Sheikh Ahmed Zafer, civil society and people of brown faces with features similar to the simplicity of a simple Bedouin homes made of mud brick and not the curses of pouring concrete blocks. Valsewe - which hails from the assets in which the Arab Balbrberi confused and even Negro - No Tgervh currents of modern civilization, and still adheres Avadath and traditions inherited from ancestors, which has always expressed regret for those who are without their habits and have forgotten their heritage.

Siwi frump not print to encourage intimate relationships with strangers, which made the Siwa closer to the world of stand-alone over the years, although they follow the Egyptian state since three thousand five hundred years!

by: Egypt Ala Carte

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