types of actions in the birth rite, wedding, New
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Year and summer rituals have been identified. The personal code is /determined by the function
and role of participants in the performance of a particular rite, with important parameters being
assigned to gender, age, marital status, the presence of healthy children, the relationship of
kinship, ritual functions. The spatial code reveals the horizontal and vertical structures of space,
the loci of the house/yurt, the micro-locations accentuated during the rituals. The object code
includes obligatory ritual objects having different semantic fullness. The time code has the main
condition of choosing a favourable date for the lunar calendar, as well as the annual season. The
food code is associated with the semantics of dairy and meat products, which are both daily and
festive meals. In traditional rituals these same products, as ritual food, were given a special sacral
meaning. The game code is presented in the structure of family and calendar rituals by traditional
competitions (horse races, wrestling, archery). The characteristic feature of the numerical code is
the use of some well-established numbers that have a certain symbolism: 15 (full moon day as
a favorable date for performing rituals), 3 (three rounds of the ritual place), 4 (four sides of the
world), 5 (five types of color scheme used in rituals), etc. The colour code has the stable
semantics, expressing the functional orientation of the ritual. The spectrum of the established
colour scheme of rituals has been determined. The music code has been found in the calendar and
some family-household rites because it depends on the semantics of a particular ritual. However,
some cases with the music code being absent have been revealed. A characteristic feature of the
sound code is the presence of binary oppositions, representing loudness – noiselessness.
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