Is Attan a Dance? Or not?

[Sheenka]

in Ningarhar there is attan group called Ghami

LOL

[afghan]

historically attan was not a dance but an exersize of the warriors, they would organize and warm themselves before an attack over the enemy. look at the history of caucas region have the similar traditions like us, but they have stuck to their original version they still use weapons in their attans or dance. we use weapons very rarely mostly used by khattaks. there are hundreds types of attans, every tribes have their style of atan. i love the waziro attan.

[AnGaaR]

in Ningarhar there is attan group called Ghami

LOL

I know this dude.. they used to dance attan in wedding parties just for fun.
Recently they started getting paid for dancing attan.

Attan is not a business its a traditional dance.. Ghamai and his friends are doing wrong..

[Sheenka]

^ what kind of styles?
All i know u dance in circle and sometimes fire in the middle of circle, for ladies they use mangi

[Bibi Shah]

"Attan is a traditional folk dance! It is said to be one of oldest Afghan Pagan dance, some identify Attan as an a religious ceremony of early Zoroastrians placing it 2000 BCE, and some have placed even older going back to King Yama's celebration of Nowroz and... warriors dancing and circling around the fire. King Yama was the first Afghan king dating back to 3500 BCE. This was later modified into an Islamic dance to allow the dancers to get 'closer to God' this virtual Attan practised by many Afghan poets and mystics had even reached to corners of Turkey, Europe known as the Rumi Dance"

Attan is not a "dance" where you can jump and act like crazy.. Attan is a performance with manner and dignity.
Attan khu sangin dey!

[شمله ور خراساني]

historically attan was not a dance but an exersize of the warriors, they would organize and warm themselves before an attack over the enemy. look at the history of caucas region have the similar traditions like us, but they have stuck to their original version they still use weapons in their attans or dance. we use weapons very rarely mostly used by khattaks. there are hundreds types of attans, every tribes have their style of atan. i love the waziro attan.

In our village they use to do attan while carrying rifles in their hands above their heads.

[Sheenka]

^ anggar its tradtional dance thu
if u do it or them in the wedding its gonna be the same however i agreed with u as well
its very cheap and sad

[شمله ور خراساني]

I know this dude.. they used to dance attan in wedding parties just for fun.
Recently they started getting paid for dancing attan.

Attan is not a business its a traditional dance.. Ghamai and his friends are doing wrong..

Yes. I consider Ghamai as a big threat to our culture. He has turned a custom into damtob. He gets paid to dance in weddings. This is like Mujra.

[شمله ور خراساني]

in Ningarhar there is attan group called Ghami

LOL

Ghamai is also a man's name. Its a name very common among our Kochi men.

[Sheenka]

"attan is a traditional folk dance! It is said to be one of oldest afghan pagan dance, some identify attan as an a religious ceremony of early zoroastrians placing it 2000 bce, and some have placed even older going back to king yama's celebration of nowroz and... Warriors dancing and circling around the fire. King yama was the first afghan king dating back to 3500 bce. This was later modified into an islamic dance to allow the dancers to get 'closer to god' this virtual attan practised by many afghan poets and mystics had even reached to corners of turkey, europe known as the rumi dance"

attan is not a "dance" where you can jump and act like crazy.. Attan is a performance with manner and dignity.
Attan khu sangin dey!

see thats the reason, u cant get close to god with dancing after knowing this i hate it now
we r pure muslims now

[Sheenka]

ghamai is also a man's name. Its a name very common among our kochi men.

yeah its name, and nice name too
ta kuchai ye?

[شمله ور خراساني]

yeah its name, and nice name too
ta kuchai ye?

Alhamdulilah za pa num aw pa qawm kochai yama! Ahmadzai Ghiljay Kochai!

[Sheenka]

MASHALLAH
btw wat does ghilgay means? i love this name

[شمله ور خراساني]

MASHALLAH
btw wat does ghilgay means? i love this name

It is Ghil-Jay! or Ghil-zay. There are two commonly told stories regarding this name. Some say it means Ghar-Zoy. Son of mountain. Others say it means Ghal-zoy. Son of thief. Ghar-zoy because we descent from Saka & Kushan nomadic ancient tribes. And Ghal-=zoy because according to mythical origin of our tribe. a woman called bibi mato was raped by a Turkic thief and her son was called Ghal-zoy.

[شمله ور خراساني]

Among Ghilji one branch is called Matozai. Sons of Bibi Mato.