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The inhabitants handed it over to the protection of the government, which turned it into a museum a year later. Throughout the country, Şeb-i Arus passed by quietly, with a little ritual. Everything changed in the 1940s and '50s when various government-run events held during Dec. 17 featured practitioners conducting the Sema ceremony.