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OK, get ready now because this will be a long description :)
But i really think that to be able to see the inner beauty of this ceremony, some key points should be explained. Here is some information that i've collected about Sema:
Sema means "acceptance by tradition" in Turkish, etymologically the root word comes from Persian. It is part of the inspiration of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (1207- 1273; a poet, Islamic jurist, theologian and mystic) as well as of Turkish custom, history, beliefs and culture.
Sema is a symbolic ritual through which dervishes (also called semazens) aim to reach the "perfect"(kemal). The aim is to abandon one's nafs, egos or personal desires, by listening to God and the music (hence the term sema), thinking about God.
In the symbolism of the Sema ritual, the semazen's camel's hair hat (sikke) represents the tombstone of the ego; his wide, white skirt represents the ego's shroud. By removing his black cloak, he is spiritually reborn to the truth.
At the beginning of the Sema, by holding his arms crosswise the semazen appears to represent the number one, thus testifying to God's unity. While whirling, his arms are open: his right arm is directed to the sky, ready to receive God's beneficence; his left hand, upon which his eyes are fastened, is turned toward the earth. The semazen conveys God's spiritual gift to those who are witnessing the Sema. Revolving from right to left around the heart, the semazen embraces all humanity with love. The human being has been created with love in order to love.
From a scientific viewpoint we witness that contemporary science definitely confirms that the fundamental condition of our existence is to revolve. There is no object, no being which does not revolve and the shared similarity among beings is the revolution of the electrons, protons and neutrons in the atoms, which constitute the structure of each of them. As a consequence of this similarity, everything revolves and man carries on his live, his very existence by means of the revolution in the atoms, structural stones of his body, by the revolution of his blood, by his coming from the earth and return to it, by his revolving with earth itself.
The ceremony in this video performed by Mustafa Erdogan's Anadolu Ateşi (Fire of Anatolia), as a part of a dance show which has the concept of meeting of the civilizations from east and west in Anatolia, Turkey.
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