Kataklismos Paphos  2013!!!

The flood festival is organized every year around Cyprus 50 days after Easter.   The celebration of  Kataklysmos is a Greek Orthodox festival with strong pagan roots relating back to the Greek myth of Deukalion and the ark he built to survive the floods, and ancient ceremonies between Aphrodite and Adonis.

Kleftiko means stolen

The name kleftiko was given to this food because during the occupancy of Turks in Greece.Thieves and armatoloi as they were called ( they were the descendants of  Greeks who retreated into the mountains during the fifteenth century in order to avoid Ottoman oppression) were seeking food, stealing meat, which they baked in lighting fire and hiding  it under  the soil.