Dengbêj,
Kurdish, also dengbej dengbej, referred to in the Kurdish regions in northern
Kurdistan professional folk song singer who recites secular songs without instrumental accompaniment to an old Kurdish epic tradition. It can be distinguished from çirokbêj, the storyteller and the beytbêj, the poet. The strophic song of dengbêj embodies a distinct musical genre within a pre-Islamic time until reaching back, coming from Kurdistan narrative tradition that is handed down in the Kurdistan and
Azerbaijan from aşık
. In the eastern Kurdistan professional Kurdish bards hot lavjebêj. Some Kurdish dengbêjî come from
Red Kurdistan (
Armenian, Azerbaijan). The Epensänger sometimes be of a variant of the short oboe mey (Kurdish duduk also qernête) accompany or other folk instruments.
The ancestors of the
Kurds came well with other nations of the
European family of languages in pre-Christian times from
Central Asia to the west of the
Iranian highlands. Speaker of Altkurdischen settled According to a thesis in the area of the
Zagros mountain range, before they came to
Anatolia. The often claimed descent Kurdish optionally by the
Sumerians, the
Medes, Hurrians, Mitanni, Hatti,
Scythians, Urartians or other peoples, who founded ancient oriental empires, can not prove itself. While there are only vaguely about the early history of the Kurds conjectures provide detailed historical myths over the centuries a further supported cultural tradition.
The Persian poet
Firdausi (940-1020), in his epic poem Shahnameh one of many variants of the story of the evil
Dragon King Zahhak again, grew out of his shoulders two snake heads. The snakes had daily fed with the brains of two children.
Instead of the child population, a calf or lamb began to kill and to sacrifice its brain. Every day was rescued a child through this deception and secretly taken to safety in the mountains. It also portrays the Kurdish historian
Sharaf Khan Bidlisi in his 1597 published work Scherefname (Saraf-nama), which represents the earliest comprehensive source for
Kurdish history. These boys and girls went henceforth as nomads out wandering and living in tents nation of Kurds. In Firdausi the blacksmith Kaveh led (also
Kawa) with his cherished as flag apron on an uprising against the tyrant, to redeem the people from this cruel ritual. After the modern Kurdish version of the blacksmith Kawa was a
Kurd, said the last of his three children to be sacrificed, he slew Zahhak hand with his hammer.
The Kurdish story of the uprising against the tyrant is one of the classical epics, where the struggle between good and evil plays a central role and sometimes historical facts mixed with myths. The murder of the dragon king is laid on March 21, 612 v. Chr., When the Medes conquered the
Assyrian capital of
Nineveh. The timing is calculated to explain Kurds to descendants of the Medes. By March 21, begins each year the Iranian solar calendar, therefore the customs are rooted in myth. On this day, the Iranian-Kurdish spring festival
Newroz is organized, which is a
symbol of the cultural autonomy of the Kurds and the public celebrations in the
Republic of Turkey were banned in 1923 and in
1995 readmitted.
- published: 30 Mar 2016
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