The latest Doodle: What is a prearranged marriage in my culture? It’s when family or clan leaders, parents and other authoritative authoritative individuals arrange a marriage within our own people. It is understood amongst us that it is Vujo Romaniya (Pure Roma Law) to marry within our own; and it is a matter of respect, honour and internalized duty to see that our bloodlines remain on the Tatcho Drom – True Way. Some reasons for prearranged marriages:
As in most civilised social systems, there are formalities that need to be upheld to mark various passings of age and employ a form of order in our societies. The following is a list of some of the rituals and ceremonies that mark important moments of our lives in our Clans.
These rituals naturally change and adapt over time to suit our ever changing societies, but the Romany essence remains the same. For example, a generation ago, the adult age status was changed from 13 years of age to 20 years of age. Can you imagine the difficulties of having 13 year old boys and girls marrying in this day and age? Yikes!
My brothers and I have had some grueling experiences due to our pain tolerance. We didn’t look forward getting hurt at school since we were often made to wait in the sick bay for much longer than necessary because the teachers didn’t think we were badly hurt, when in reality, we were screaming and crying out inside! lol
Pain tolerance is not something that only our brothers and I have nurtured, but I believe it extends to other members of our families. For example, when my wife gave birth to our child, she never screamed out or made a sound! Allow that to sink in and realise how different we are raised to the vast majority of people in the general public.
The Earth, nature, trees, planting, growing, gardening, are all big things in my culture. My father’s name is Fabian, that is, Bean Planter (and indeed he’s an avid gardener). My mother’s last name is Robles, that is, Oaks. I was raised up being encouraged to feel the Earth and to connect to all living creatures.
Having a Tree as an Archetype of our inner make up is not a big step, in fact, the Tree as an Archetype makes a lot of sense to us! Maybe after you have finished reading this journal you may feel the same too.
The following Archetype came as a channeling (inspired and intuitive messages from God) while I was living in the U.S.A., Miami. The night commenced with the togetherness of friends, who am I kidding, we were all ancient soul mates. Intoxicated in Spirit, we swooned, smiled and listened to the story, an Archetype, that seemed to rise from childhood memories playing outside in nature.
Our culture is one that follows The Way – O Drom in Romany. The ethnic groups that make up our culture is not as important as the Spirit that unites us all in the spiritual way we live. Though I must admit that I’m highly biased to the Romani Gypsy, Jewish and indigenous tribal cultures that make up our families.
From an ancient background, from ancient traveling tribes, we draw an almost forgotten story. A story that is rousing from its long sleep. Let us sit back, allowing our imaginations go, capturing the essence of this message.
Greetings! Below you will find an essay I wrote in 2008. The essay is not the most academic since it has an emotional drive to it that I couldn’t seem to block! I guess the topic is one that I’m very passionate about.
I hope you may enjoy this essay that I wrote in attempts to advocate for the Romani Gypsy people from a Romani Gypsy stand. With the burden of representing the Roma and in attempts to advocate for our cultural rights I present you with:
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