The “Edirnan” season is one of the traditional Berber festive customs that is still practiced in many mountainous areas of Souss, as the tribes in these rural areas have been reviving it with all its inherited details, which draw from the peculiarities of these mountains and the peculiarities of their inhabitants, according to a temporal and spatial distribution that has its procedures and rituals.
“Edirnan” constitutes an annual celebration within the celebrations of the inhabitants of the mountains, interspersed with customs and rituals related to the quality of food, forms of watching, and the exchange of visits between tribes according to precise dates based on the agricultural calendar, and all of them perform multiple social functions. severely.
Many researchers in the field of heritage unanimously agreed that “Edirnan” is linked to the agricultural calendar, as from the womb of this calendar was the issuance of this tradition, and with its seasons, days and months, its timings are determined, and with it the various arrangements that the residents are keen to prepare for this date, which indicates the rooting The “Edirnan” tradition and all that is associated with it in the culture of those Berber regions.
Research Professor Jama Bneidir, head of the Aklo Center for Research and Documentation, said that “Edirnan” is an authentic heritage full of semantics, as it “talks, for those who are better at listening, from today’s generations, about the social, cultural and civilizational history in general of the region that gave birth to it, and reflects the human relations that it embraced.” among its societal segments.
Bneidir called, in a statement to Hespress, to raise the "Edirnan" rooted in the hearts of men, women and children, from the level of faithful practice clinging to the rituals of this tradition and its procedures to the level of theorizing, in search of its origins, extensions and various connotations, considering it a celebration not only virgin, but "a celebration of It should also be in the direction of awakening the enthusiasm in order to work on subjecting this tradition to a serious scientific approach that is sufficient to reveal what we do not know about it yet.”
And if the dominant today is the manifestations of the celebration of this ritual, the head of the Aklo Center for Research and Documentation confirmed that “the tradition of “Edirnan” is not just taking care of preparing certain foods instead of others, or wearing clothes instead of other, or exchanging visits, and other local customs that attend Throughout the days of “Edirnan”, as the event must have backgrounds and goals, and then indications and dimensions that were followed by those who followed it to the age of a good year, and to a tight distribution of times to celebrate it among the tribes, and on the sides and areas of this tribe or that.”
He continued, "It seems that the approach worthy of introducing the Edirnan tradition should be serious and intentional, in the sense that it focuses on studying it, and providing it with what it deserves of research and care, while adhering to the conditions of scientific research and scientific values, rather than dumping it on some occasions and festivals. In which the celebration is attended in folkloric and other traditional colors, the celebration of this tradition is lost and it does not receive enough attention.”
Therefore, they are rituals and customs that have preserved many of their subtle details for centuries. They continue today in the mountainous areas of Souss, and constitute an opportunity for the tribesmen to exchange visits and prepare special types of food, and embody the forms of festivity from the core of these areas. Today, these celebrations have taken on other dimensions, such as organizing festivals. Great and intellectual forums around it. As usual, it has a developmental aspect, as it constitutes an occasion for regional associations to deliberate on local development issues and solve related problems. Thus, “Edirnan” continues with its deep-rooted rituals, and with a parallel “modernization,” such as linking it to the development dimension as previously.
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