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Atalburu in Lower_Navarre_with_a_ Lower_Navarre_with_a_lauburu_and_founders'_names">lauburu.html"_;"title="Lower_Navarre_with_a_lauburu">Lower_Navarre_with_a_lauburu_and_founders'_names image:Atalburu_Mandoz.jpg.html" ;"title="lauburu_and_founders'_names.html" ;"title="lauburu.html" ;"title="Lower Navarre with a lauburu">Lower Navarre with a lauburu and founders' names">lauburu.html" ;"title="Lower Navarre with a Lower_Navarre_with_a_lauburu_and_founders'_names image:Atalburu_Mandoz.jpg">thumb.html" ;"title="lauburu">Lower Navarre with a lauburu and founders' names image:Atalburu Mandoz.jpg">thumb">250px, ''Iesus Maria Ioseph hilçiaz orhoitg-ziten Io(a)nnes de Urtiaga, Martin d'Errecalde et Maria d'Errecalde, 1727'' (the first half translating as "In memory of JMJ's death") Atalburu (from Basque ''atari'' 'doorway' ''buru'' 'head') is the name given to the Basque_houses. It_was_usual_for_each_new_house,_particularly_in_the_province_of_Lower_Navarre.html" ;"title="baserri.html" ;"title="lintel above the main entrance of traditional baserri">Basque houses. It was usual for each new house, particularly in the province of Lower Navarre">baserri.html" ;"title="lintel above the main entrance of traditional baserri">Basque houses. It was usual for each new house, particularly in the province of Lower Navarre, to engrave on these stones: * the year of construction, * the name of spouses, * religious symbols, as a cross, * other traditional motives, as a lauburu or simply its constitutive commas, doves symbol of fidelity, stylized plants symbol of prosperity, rosette (design), rosettes of Bay Laurel, laurel leaves, symbol of immortality or various others as sun, stars... * working tools The text may have religious references, for example: * ''Au nom du Père et du Fils et du St Esprit m'a fait bâtir l'an 1806'' ('In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Gost, (one) made me build in year 1806')... Traditionally, all Basque houses have a name, but this was seldom written on the ''atalarri'' and more commonly found on the '' armarria''. On modern houses, the house name is frequently engraved on a stele near the door. Once a house is named, the name is virtually never changed.

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