Salamat: the wheat soup of birth

Among the Sakha (Yakut) Turks, three days after a birth the women held a farewell ceremony: they laughed together and smeared butter on their faces. For it a soup of boiled wheat was cooked and eaten together; it was called salamat. In Anatolia, the “tooth wheat” boiled and shared out when a baby’s first tooth appears is another birth custom tied to the same grain.

Source: Didem Uzun, Şimal Yakut Aymankuy, “Food and beverage rituals at the period of birth, marriage, and death in Shamanist Turks and its modern reflections”, Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality 6(1), 2024 (Uzun & Yakut Aymankuy, TOLEHO, 2024). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.