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From: Plants and foods as identity markers: an ethnographic analysis on the case of the (Y)Ezidis from Batman (Turkey)

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Bûkik, the bride: Yolveren (Çinêra) village April 17, 2013. The red flower which begins to appear generally in April in that region is named as bûke/bûkik which means bride in Kurdish (Kurmancî). In the context of the sacred sky-earth pair as an archetype for human behavior, Ezidis believe that April is the bride of the year. They celebrate the first Wednesday of April of the Julian calendar as Çarşema Sor in which life sprinkled on the earth with the rain of the sky is conceived as the marriage of the sky and the earth

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Journal of Ethnic Foods

ISSN: 2352-619X

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