Currently, concepts such as "kum", "kuma" are considered obsolete. With the departure of religion from everyday life, the once-natural relationships between people are forgotten.
If you ask a passerby: "Who is the godfather?" - rarely answer correctly. And the word "Kuma" has almost irrevocably changed its meaning and has become associated with cunning and narrow-mindedness.
In fact, godfather is the godfather, and godfather is the godmother of the child. In the past they were very close people to him, almost relatives.
Godfathers were obliged to help the child grow up developed spiritually and morally. And they were responsible for this before God. Therefore, the advice of Kumovyev was listened to, they were respected people in the family of the child.
In the understanding of the people of those times, "nepotism" was perceived as spiritual kinship. Godparents were considered mediators between God and the child. Today, many do not know who the godfather is, and before this word was used to call a very close person.
In Russia there was a proverb: "Spiritual kinship is more than carnal." The church prohibited marriages not only between godfathers, but also between godfather - the father of the child, godfather - the mother of the child. And not only in the first, but also in the second generation of families, such ties were not approved.
Those who were brought closer by spiritual kinship did not have the right to marry. Because morality was placed above bodily pleasures.
Intimate relationships in spiritual kinship were perceived as "incest." After all, these people, when they were baptized before God, renounced Satan for the child. It was believed that having entered into carnal relations, they themselves went to hell, and even dragged the child behind them. But man is weak, and everything happened. Hence the proverb: "Kum and Kum are one Satan."
The godparents had a special role at weddings. They consulted with them about choosing a couple, they blessed the young.
Today, few people know who the godfather is. But before, it was he who put on the child during the baptismal ceremony a cross with which a person has not parted his whole life.
Today, many concepts of morality and spirituality are perverted or have lost their former significance. The institution of nepotism has also disappeared as unnecessary.
Older people still remember the echoes of respect for the godparents. But even among them, few know exactly who the godfather is. Because already at that time very few people were baptized. Moreover, for a long time in our history such a rite was considered asocial, was banned.
Today, the more common misconception is that the mother-in-law is the mother-in-law's godfather, and vice versa. The same thing in the male hierarchy: "Who is godfather? This is the father of the guy my daughter married to." And so that there was no connection between them ... Nowadays, unfortunately, anything is possible.
Dream Interpretations always reflect the deep psychological attitudes of a person. So, in most of them, godfather is associated with a feeling of frustration, with a scandal. And Kuma - with gossip and cunning.
Here, thus, the concept of nepotism that was bright in Russia was degraded. But no matter how the history is mocked at by Russian people, the people basically remain moral. And believers are becoming more and more.