Iran Press/ Iran news: One of the manifestations is seen as the 'Ensign Erecting', and Ensign Carrying' rituals observed annually in Muharram month in Daraksh of Southern Khorasan, eastern Iran.
According to the rituals, each patriarch in each family decorates an ensign in his home. The ensigns then are brought to the village's grand mosque, each erected after the name of each Imam of the Shia; 12 ensigns.
Added to the 12 ensigns are two others; One named after Hazrat Fatima (AS), Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) daughter and the mother of Imam Hussain (AS), and another named after Hazrat Abbas (AS), Imam Hussain's brother.
The ensigns are decorated with colorful pieces of cloth.
The ritual observance is inherited from generation to generation, from the father to his older son; Each of the ensigns has a hereditary owner, a hereditary carrier.
The ensigns are carried around the village from the fourth day of Muharram until the evening of the tenth day, Ashura, while the carriers pray for each household's wellbeing and ask God to bless their relatives who died.
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