Everyone Should See This 🇹🇷 Whirling Dervishes ✅ Subtitles ✅

🇹🇷 Even if you have never been to Turkey, I am sure that at least once in your life you have seen photographs or videos of men in white coats and tall felt caps, seemingly dancing in ecstasy.
These are dervishes, Muslim monks, whose ritual dance I want to show you today.
❤️ This dance is included in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage. Therefore, to see him at least once in my life was my little dream, and it came true!
What we, as ordinary people, call the dance of the “Whirling dervishes” has its own ritual name - “Sema”.
The participants, the Semazen, are members of the Mevlevi Sufi order, which was founded in the 13th century by the mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi, better known as “Mevlana.”
This spiritual order exists to this day and not only in Turkey, but also in Europe, for example.
Of course, now the concept of Dervish is only symbolic and the members of this order are not wandering poor people. They live ordinary lives, often have a family, a job and even some wealth.
✨✨✨ The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony✨✨✨
✅ Sema includes music, dance and prayer.
Participants in the ritual are semazens and a sheikh.
They wear symbolic clothing consisting of a white wide skirt, a black cloak and a tall felt cap.
First, the semazens sit in a circle on sheep skins to pray. After which they get up and follow the sheikh in a circle, this happens three times. Returning to his place in the hall, the semazen takes off his cape and, with his arms crossed on his chest, approaches the sheikh again, this time for a blessing. Having received it, the semazen begins its circling, first lowering its hands to the waist, and then raising them and spreading them to the sides - one palm up, the other down. The circle is interrupted three times. These pauses and greetings are dedicated to the Creator, the Universe and the soul.
While spinning, semazens tilt their heads, pressing on the carotid artery. This affects blood circulation and helps you enter a trance.
Sema is not uncommon in Turkey; if desired, it can be seen in many restaurants during dinner.
I will not say that actors will perform for you there; it is quite possible that they will be members of the Mevlevi order.
But, if you want not only to see this, but also to try to understand the essence of this ritual, then, of course, it is best to come to special places - to the halls located on the territory of the order’s schools.
🗺️ The most popular place is naturally in Konya, in the cultural center of Mevlana. This can be done once a week, on Saturdays.
This is where I made this video for you!
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