#CircassianCodeofConduct

[circassianhatko]

"Circassian 🍀 girls, even when they reach maturity, are not excluded from public life. Usually a girl is brought up with her brothers and is as skillful as they are in handling a horse 🐴🐎 and shooting a bow. 🏹

If girls generally submit to the will of their father or elder brother, they often also show independence in marriage and refuse those who are not nice to them.

This great freedom of girls and the sociable life of young people is the reason why Circassian 🍀 marriages are unlike those of other Eastern peoples (or others across the world, in general).

Just as a woman is independent in choosing a husband, so young people, at least silently, are allowed to have their own voice in choosing a future spouse.

A father or elder brother, as a rule, leaves the choice of a spouse to his son, and often to his daughter. ⚜️

It does honour to a young man when he takes less account in such a case of wealth and beauty, and more - of courtesy and intelligence." 🍀

Karl Koch.

JOURNEY ACROSS RUSSIA AND TO THE CAUCASIAN 🍀 LANDS [IN 1836, 1837 AND 1838]