Why do al-Tabqa's children throw baby teeth towards the sun?

MUHAMMAD AL-ARAB/ AL-TABQA

Al-Tabqa's people celebrate when the teeth of their children appear, and this is what the people of the city and the countryside have done, and there are those who distribute sweets to friends and family if they have affordable income.

The "silica" is made up of wheat, chickpeas, and "heget" which is a dry dried milk. In the morning, wheat is cooked first, when they ripen, the safflower and the red bell pepper are placed on it, and then the Arabic ghee is placed on it and distributed to neighbors, friends and family. This is one of the old habits that characterized al-Tabqa, especially the elderly still maintain this tradition.

Each society has its own customs and traditions that are preserved and sanctified by some of them, as al-Tabqa people who still retain certain traditions inherited from their predecessors, such as throwing the child's tooth towards the sun. He will throw away his defunct tooth, towards the sun and he demands the sun to grant a new one instead.

This habit is almost true not because they threw it towards the sun, but scientifically the child begins to bleach teeth and other teeth appear, but to ease the situation on the children and to relieve the pain to them, this habit was followed by parents who point to their children to throw their teeth towards the sun to grant normal teeth instead.

And there is a song associated with this legacy, when they throw their teeth at the sun say "Oh sun, honey, sweet, bride, take my small teeth and give me the adults' teeth."

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