[Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Lumholtz]@TWC D-Link bookUnknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) CHAPTER XIV 16/30
The parents of the girl are advised to make tesvino, as the young couple should not be separated any more, and word is sent out to a few friends and relatives to come to the wedding. The guests arrive in the afternoon and most of the people remain outside of the house during the ceremony, but the bridegroom and his parents go inside, where they seat themselves on skins spread out on the floor.
The mother of the girl has placed a large skin next to a big jar of tesvino, and on this the father of the boy sits down.
As soon as he has taken his place, the host offers him three gourds full of the drink and requests him to accept the office of honour, the distribution of tesvino to all present, and he immediately enters upon his duties.
He first gives four gourds full to the mother of the bride, as the mistress of the tesvino, and three gourds full to the host, the master; then four gourds full to his own wife.
The bridal couple have been called in and told to sit down side by side, and all the rest of the people come in and stand around the pair.
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