Feast of Qoltas · Qoltas, Qawltas

Culture of origin: Yarsan · Cultural

Holiday sources: Yarsan (Ahl-e Haqq)

The followers of the Yari faith keep three days of fasting and a feast named after the Qoltas companions. Seven devotees of Sultan Sahak, among them Qoli, Shahabeddin and Shakeh, set out to visit him; he took it as arrogance and sent Mostafa Davan to punish them, and after three days of prayer and fasting the companions came back to life, so the feast is kept in thanksgiving. For the Kaka'i of Iraq it is one of their main religious events, and in 2025 Kirkuk's provincial council suspended official work for it for the first time. No Yarsan authority has published the rule for its date: the date here is the Kaka'i one, the day of the full moon in Iraq between 11 Dey and 10 Bahman, which matches the Kurdistan Region's official calendar in four of six years and is a day off in the other two.