Author: Tirigan » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:31 pm
Also by the Yezidi Kurds in Georgia every family is celebrating “Klotsj” on different days in the last week of the year, because every family has got their own “Shaikh” (priest).
I don’t live in Georgia anymore, but when I was a child my grandmother baked a cake in the night before “Klotsj”. My grandmother did it always on Wednesday night/Thursday early morning.
In that cake with special recipe we are putting something in, like a coin or a bead!
Every last Thursday of the year we invited our “Shaikh” and he was giving his prayers/devotions. We divide that cake by slicing it in parts. We begun (are beginning) to splitting our cake with our important Yezidi saints like “Shaikh Adi” and other important “Shaikhs”. After the saints it's a turn of all males, we starting with the head of the family and his sons and grandsons and then all females of a family. Every Thursday my grandfather cutted it in pieces with of course music and devotions, a very important moment! After that we can eat our cake and search a coin in it. It can last 2 days before we know in which part a coin is. Some years ago that coin was in mine part of a cake. That stand for that it was mine new-year! Al that of course with a lot of music and dancing. A real celebration, most important day of the year.
Since my family live in Holland, and since my grandparents are dead, my father is the head of our little family here and my mother is making “Klotsj”, our cake!
Also last days of the old-year we’re painting eggs, like Christians and Jews do and we also going to the funeral of our recently dead family members.
I don’t exactly know how Yezidi Kurds in Lalish are celebrating Newroz, but One thing I know for sure. Newroz is for Yezidi much more than dancing. It’s a very religious feast and has to do with our religion.
Some ASSyrians are claiming that Newroz is their new-year. But what are they doing on that day? Nothing! Maybe they dance (Kurdish dances) something and that’s all. And now some of them are claming that it’s their feast. Newroz for Yezidi is much more than dancing!
I’m PKK!
