Çarşema Sor, ‘Red Wednesday’ – the festival that welcomes spring and hails new beginnings. The day the universe was created from a white pearl, and water and land were separated from each other. A time of rebirth and revival. April is ‘the bride of the year’. The villagers boil eggs and paint them in the brightest colours, ready for the festive game hekkane. A mixture of broken eggshells, wild flowers and clay is applied to the entrances of homes. They decorate the graves, celebrating the arrival of the new year with the living and the dead.
