Temple of Khatuna Fekhra in TurkeyPilgrims and worshippers at the shrine of Xatûna Fexra in Lalish, with the Micewir of the shrine, Sheikh Mirza (second from left), mid-2019.
Khatuna Fekhra (Kurdish: Xatûna Fexra[1]) is a holy Yazidi female figure who is venerated as the Xudan of women and children as well as patron of childbirth and pregnancy.[2][3]
^Omarkhali, Khanna (2017). The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written: categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC994778968.
