A festival named after a crocus
ANTAHŞUM, one of the roughly 18 Hittite festivals, took its name from a crocus and celebrated the renewal of plant life. That a plant’s name became the name of a festival shows how important the plant was to that society. Note: autumn crocus is a very poisonous plant.
Source: Selen Yeğenoğlu, Bilge Sözen Şahne, Elif Ulutaş, “Hitit Uygarlığında Bitkilerin Yeri”, Lokman Hekim Dergisi 6(3), 2016 (Yeğenoğlu et al., Lokman Hekim Dergisi, 2016). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.
Medea’s garden in Tarabya