Millet-making ritual - Millet-making ritual

Japanese: アワ作儀礼 - あわさくぎれい
Millet-making ritual - Millet-making ritual

…Rituals are broadly divided into those for grains such as wheat, rice, foxtail millet, and corn, and those for taro, yams, and their variants, taro. Wheat-cropping rituals are widespread in the Old World, such as the Orient and Europe, while rice-cropping rituals are found in the mainland and islands of East Asia and Southeast Asia, including Japan, foxtail millet-cropping rituals in East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, and corn rituals in the New World, such as North America and Central and South America. Rituals for potatoes are also held among root-cropping farmers in Oceania, such as Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Awasaku Ritual" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…麦や稲,アワ,トウモロコシなどの穀物を対象とする儀礼と,タロイモやヤムイモ,その変種のサトイモなどを対象とする儀礼に大別される。麦作儀礼はオリエントやヨーロッパなどの旧大陸にひろく分布しているが,稲作儀礼は日本を含む東アジアや東南アジアの大陸部や島嶼(とうしよ)部に,アワ作儀礼は東アジアや南アジア,アフリカなどに,トウモロコシの儀礼は北米や中南米などの新大陸に分布している。また,いも類の儀礼はミクロネシアやポリネシア,メラネシアなどのオセアニアの根栽農耕民の間で行われている。…

※「アワ作儀礼」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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