| The
colivă
is a traditional funeral pudding with pre-Christian, pagan origins that
symbolizes the passing from life to death. It is made from boiled wheat
kernels sweetened with sugar or honey, with walnuts, candies, and crumbled
sweet crackers. The cycle of the wheat is metaphorical for the cycle
of life, death, and resurrection. Family members prepare the colivă,
which is made almost exclusively for liturgies involving death. |
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