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

Fig. 8

Qub’il Dor (Dome of Cycle): Oğuz (Şimsȇ) village, April 4, 2013. A sacred Ezidi place called Qub’il Dor (Dome of Cycle) near with a sacred tree on which has a taboo against damaging it. This place is also a cemetery situated on the top of a hill. The symbol of the moon and the sun on the dome points to the conception of cyclical time. The Ezidi sacred places and cemeteries on the high hills expressing metaphysical unification under the sun and moon, mark a point where the dead and the living worlds link together

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Journal of Ethnic Foods

ISSN: 2352-619X

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