TY - JOUR
TI - Wednesday and its Festival in the ReligiousTradition of the Yezidis
AU - Rodziewicz, Artur
TI - Wednesday and its Festival in the ReligiousTradition of the Yezidis
AB - 
	The paper is devoted to the holy day of the Yezidis, Wednesday, and the Spring festival of Çarşemiya Sor. I propose an interpretation of the meaning of this day, pointing to the supposed relationship between the meaning of Wednesday and the description of ‘fourth day’ in the Old Testament tradition. I also show that the annual feast of Çarşemiya Sor, just like every Wednesday of the week, for the Yezidis commemorate the creation of the material world and subjecting it to the power of angels (especially to the Peacock Angel) and heavenly bodies. I rely mainly on the Yezidi sources and materials gathered during my own field research in Iraq and the South Caucasus.
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 52, Issue 2
PY - 2019
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 109
EP - 125
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.19.008.11194
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/sroda-i-jej-swieto-w-tradycji-religijnej-jezydow
KW - festivals
KW - Wednesday
KW - Spring festival
KW - Yezidis
KW - cosmogony
KW - Peacock Angel
KW - angels
KW - Sun
KW - Moon
KW - stars
KW - Spring rituals
KW - Torah
KW - Genesis