Antique Vintage 1950’s Brass Turkish Whirling Dervish Fork & Spoon Salad Decor

Antique Vintage 1950’s Brass Turkish Whirling Dervish Fork & Spoon Salad Decor Decorative Artist Fork and Spoon Turkish Whirling Dervish Dancers Konya, Turkey 7” spoon 6 1/2” Fork Loops to hang on wall on each In excellent condition “Hamdım, Piştim, Yandım”. A life-long spritual journey was summarized in these three words only. This was how Mevlâna has put it, saying of his mystical experience: “The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.” -rumi The word“ham”, actually meaning ‘unripe’ or ‘immature’ in Turkish, in this case, can be translated as ‘raw’ to English. The meaning in Turkish bears more nuances, often also indicating an uneducated or unexperienced person to the extent of being crude or unrefined. Rumi, in his elderly age, looked back to his youth, and considered his early years very ‘uncooked’, compared to his mature mellowness of later ages. He was actually ‘cooked’ in the kitchen of brotherhood, as the Sufi order starts in the kitchen! Whirling dervishes with their heads slightly tilted, arms raised to the sky, spinning in graceful circles are romantically one of the most inspiring mystical images but the path to whirling is not easy, and it strangely passes through the kitchen.