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Post by ancalimon on Feb 17, 2012 15:52:28 GMT 3
Does this sitting style has any cultural significance? Maybe some kind of having the authority? It's called a Lotus Throne in India. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_positionBAÐDAÞ KURMAK in Turkish. |
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Post by Ardavarz on Feb 17, 2012 23:00:26 GMT 3
Indeed, my late mentor had such a hypothesis that Xiongnu have known this sitting style. He based his suggestions on discoveries from the excavations of Xiongnu royal burials in Noin Ula, Mongolia. It seems that that the Shanyu and his wife have wore a kind of slippers or socks interwoven with tiny brass grains forming a decorative pattern on the sole. Those decorations can be seen only if the person wearing them sits that way - with his soles up. So that's where he got the idea. Otherwise why bother to put such a complicated decoration where no on can see it - he told me that they were of so fine workmanship that it is not known how exactly they were made - the miniature grains were pierced with thread of gold to be sewn in the fabric. Unfortunately I don't remember the details, I suppose they can be found in the work of Rudenko about Noin Ula excavations.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Feb 17, 2012 23:09:10 GMT 3
Just recently I read in a recently-published book about the Ottoman military of the 1820s that Ottoman riders were recorded by some Italian visitors during the reign of Mahmud II to have been riding horses this style. I didn't believe it at the beginning but now I wonder.
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Post by massaget on Feb 18, 2012 15:38:47 GMT 3
We call this type of sitting as török ülés (türkish sitting)
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Post by Ardavarz on Feb 18, 2012 22:54:25 GMT 3
Yes, in Bulgaria cross-legged sitting is called "Turkish sitting" too, but only with the soles are hidden under the legs. When they are up like in the classic "lotus posture" (padmāsana) - some people call this "yogic sitting".
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Post by ancalimon on Apr 2, 2012 9:10:08 GMT 3
Some people in Europe apparently call this "tailor sitting". I wonder if the first tailors were barbarians who made pants and stuff like those which the barbarians wore. Apparently many people wearing pants were exiled and their wealth confiscated. (Some kind of resistance to change maybe?)
The common cloth Romans were were called "TOGA". It was made by fixing fabrics together and they wore it by spinning it around their body. Only the fabric was woven and there was no kind of complex styling.
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Post by snafu on Dec 6, 2012 5:48:47 GMT 3
In the US it's called (or used to be called) sitting Indian style, because some native Americans sat that way too.
I think it's just a natural habit for any group that spends a lot of time sitting on the ground rather than in chairs. It's just a comfortable way to sit. Also in a cold environment sitting balled up like that would probably make you feel a little warmer and less exposed.
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