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KHUDU DIVANA KHANAGAH (Khudu Court Dwelling)
A sanctuary in Hajivar v., Nakhchivan city. For the first time I.P.Zelinski, Russian scientific in his article published in 1882 in the collection of SMOMPK speaks about this sacred place. V. M. Sisoyev, Russian scientist who was in Nakhchivan during 20th of 20 century writes about the sacred place: "There are two elmy trees at 300-400 steps from each-other in Hajivar, near Nakhchivan city. They are regarded twins. There is a version that they have joined with each-other with underground root-hair. The appeared protrusions in those trees are explained of their pregnancy. Near the elmy tree not far from Yarimja way a new young elmy tree has grown up. It is considered the son of the old elmy. Under the last one a little room of clay has been built. The people of these lands bury their dead ones there. Due to this a muslim cemetery has appeared around the tree. The place together with trees is called Khuda Divan (Court of God). There is a version that if somebody takes a branch or something belonging to the tree at once the temperature of that person rises. They think that it possesses any holy power. The power heals people and animals having a high temperature. For this reason, before they used to take the ill cattle to this tree. People with scarlet fever also hope here. The patients give a few clew of cotton thread or something in the form of an egg as a vow. The vows they bring they leave at the threshold of the graves hoping for somebody who isn’t afraid of the illness to use of. Besides this, he that comes here washes his hand with the water brought on any grave and breaks the jar on the head-stones after rotating over his/her head. The Russian scientist K.N.Smirnov dealing with the sacred places about Nakhchivan also touches on this place. He says: "There is a sanctuary in the direction of Hajivar where the women go there on the sixth day of Novruz. This sanctuary is called "Khudu Divana". It seems it is a grave belonging to a Safavi dervish. There are two trees on which the women hang fabrics (duster). The name of the sanctuary derives from a man by name Khudu. He was a dervish belonging to Galandariyya mystic sector. As he acted among people foolishlike, people called him "divana". "Galandariyya" was one of the widely spread sectors in Nakhchivan region in the Middle Ages. The dervishes belonging to this sector had specifities: dress short khirgas, put on caps conic formed, hang heavy iron yokes on their necks, wear rings, earrings, bracelets, dislike everything what is expensive, keep off people, always walking, traveling, satisfy with one clothe and simple bread, cut their hair, shave faces and even their brows with razor. Surely a man of this image can't be accepted normally but instead considered mad, stupid, foolish. It is better to say that the members of this sector didn't have their fixed places or occupation; unrelated with religion principles. Academician Z. Bunyadov has revealed and characterized them in the example of Baba Tahir Uryani from Hamadan as: "I am not galandar but awanderer mystic, I've no fire, no place, no hearth. Day time I walk over the world, but at night I sleep placing a brick under my head". Dervish Khudu, better known as "Khudu Divana" among people was aYarimja way a new young elmy tree has grown up. It is considered the son of the old elmy. Under the last one a little room of clay has been built. The people of these lands bury their dead ones there. Due to this a muslim cemetery has appeared around the tree. The place together with trees is called Khuda Divan (Court of God). There is a version that if somebody takes a branch or something belonging to the tree at once the temperature of that person rises. They think that it possesses any holy power. The power heals people and animals having a high temperature. For this reason, before they used to take the ill cattle to this tree. People with scarlet fever also hope here. The patients give a few clew of cotton thread or something in the form of an egg as a vow. The vows they bring they leave at the threshold of the graves hoping for somebody who isn’t afraid of the illness to use of. Besides this, he that comes here washes his hand with the water brought on any grave and breaks the jar on the head-stones after rotating over his/her head. The Russian scientist K.N.Smirnov dealing with the sacred places about Nakhchivan also touches on this place. He says: "There is a sanctuary in the direction of Hajivar where the women go there on the sixth day of Novruz. This sanctuary is called "Khudu Divana". It seems it is a grave belonging to a Safavi dervish. There are two trees on which the women hang fabrics (duster). The name of the sanctuary derives from a man by name Khudu. He was a dervish belonging to Galandariyya mystic sector. As he acted among people foolishlike, people called him "divana". "Galandariyya" was one of the widely spread sectors in Nakhchivan region in the Middle Ages. The dervishes belonging to this sector had specifities: dress short khirgas, put on caps conic formed, hang heavy iron yokes on their necks, wear rings, earrings, bracelets, dislike everything what is expensive,keep off people, always walking, traveling, satisfywith one clothe and simple bread, cut their hair, shave faces and even their brows with razor. Surely a man of this image can't be accepted normally butinstead considered mad, stupid, foolish. It is better to say that the members of this sector didn't have their fixed places or occupation; unrelated with religion principles. Academician Z. Bunyadov has revealed and characterized them in the example of Baba Tahir Uryani from Hamadan as: "I am not galandar but a wanderer mystic, I've no fire, no place, no hearth. Day time I walk over the world, but at night I sleep placing a brick under my head". Dervish Khudu, better known as "Khudu Divana" among people was adervish belonging to Galandariyya sector which that time had spread in the territory of Nakhchivan widely, had put up his dwelling here, lived and spread his ideas. The mystic sheykhs of the Middle Ages tried to put up themselves along the trade ways where people were supposed to be more for to propaganda self ideas. As Khudu-Divana was situated on the left side of Nakhchivanchay on the trade way of Ordubad-Sadarak and existence of so many dwellings at that period it is acceptable to say that the activity of this dwelling was normal. For K.M. Smirnov the sanctuary consisted of Khudu-Divana’s grave. It seems after his death, according to the tradition, his followers had buried him near his dwelling. As his followers visited the grave regularly, later the rest people also began to visit there. The sanctuary was named after "Khudu Divana" who it belonged to.