The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village is the most insane thing you'll read today
Original Turkish here: x.com/gmunzam/status…
Original Turkish here: x.com/gmunzam/status…
@yakabikaj While we are on the topic of Evliya Çelebi, here is a map of the places Evliya Çelebi visited. google.com/maps/d/viewer?…
@yakabikaj It is a very old custom in the Caucasus to entrust the dead to trees on their last journey. Not only Evliya, but also the Italian missionary Lamberti in the 17th century reported that the middle of the trees was hollowed out and the dead were placed as if in a coffin.
@yakabikaj @barbarikon Do you know what modern country that story took place in?
@yakabikaj That's true, even though this rates at worst a 7 out of 10 on the "wtf, Evliet Çelebi" scale