Yazidi New Year festival at Lalish (18 April 2017) celebrating the start of the new year which begins the following day.
Observed by
Yazidis
Type
Religious
Frequency
Annual
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Main topics
Yazidis
Yazidi social organization
The Heptad
Tawûsî Melek
Fexredîn
Sheikh Shems
Sicadîn
Melik Şêxsin
Sheikh Obekr
Nasirdîn
List of Yazidi holy figures
Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir
Sultan Ezid
Amadin
Ezdina Mir
Khatuna Fekhra
Sheikh Mand
Mehmed Reshan
Musa Sor
Sharaf ad-Din ibn al-Hasan
Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir
Pir Ali
Rabia of Basra
Shehid ibn Jerr
Holy places
Lalish
Sinjar Mountains
Silat Bridge
Mam Rashan Shrine
Quba Mêrê Dîwanê
Sharfadin Temple
Sultan Ezid Temple
Festivals
Batizmi
Feast of Ezid
Feast of the Assembly
Tawûsgeran
Tiwaf
Yazidi New Year
Literature
Yazidi Black Book
Yazidi Book of Revelation
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The Yazidi New Year (Sersal) is called Çarşema Sor ("Red Wednesday")[1] or Çarşema Serê Nîsanê ("Wednesday at the beginning of April") in Kurmanji.[2] It falls in spring, on the first Wednesday[3] of the April and Nîsan months in the Julian and Seleucid calendars, i.e. the first Wednesday on or after 14 April according to the Gregorian calendar.[4][5]
^Rodziewicz, Artur (December 2016). Asatrian, Garnik S. (ed.). "And the Pearl Became an Egg: The Yezidi Red Wednesday and Its Cosmogonic Background". Iran and the Caucasus. 20 (3–4). Leiden: Brill Publishers in collaboration with the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies (Yerevan): 347–367. doi:10.1163/1573384X-20160306. eISSN 1573-384X. ISSN 1609-8498. JSTOR 44631092. LCCN 2001227055. OCLC 233145721.
^Авдоев, Теймураз (2017-09-05). Историко-теософский аспект езидизма (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 9785040433988.
^Rodziewicz, Artur (March 2020). "The Yezidi Wednesday and the Music of the Spheres". Iranian Studies. 53 (1–2): 259–293. doi:10.1080/00210862.2019.1654287. ISSN 0021-0862. S2CID 211672629.
^"Das êzîdîsche Neujahr" (PDF).
^Bozarslan, Hamit; Gunes, Cengiz; Yadirgi, Veli, eds. (2021-04-22). The Cambridge History of the Kurds (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108623711. ISBN 978-1-108-62371-1. S2CID 243594800.
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