From zazas-l-owner@hollyfeld.org Thu Feb 04 20:52:21 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yronwode@prog-relay.sonic.net Received: (qmail 15862 invoked from network); 4 Feb 1999 20:52:21 -0000 Received: from sub.sonic.net (208.201.224.8) by buzz.sonic.net with SMTP; 4 Feb 1999 20:52:21 -0000 Received: from mindy.accesscom.com (root@ns2.accesscom.com [205.226.156.3]) by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00116 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:51:08 -0800 Received: from shell.accesscom.com (root@shell.accesscom.com [205.226.156.10]) by mindy.accesscom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id MAA14182 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:24:49 -0800 Received: from mindy.accesscom.com (root@ns2.accesscom.com [205.226.156.3]) by shell.accesscom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id MAA15454 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:24:49 -0800 Received: from mail-out-0.tiac.net (mail-out-0.tiac.net [199.0.65.247]) by mindy.accesscom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id MAA14177 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:24:48 -0800 Received: from mail-out-3.tiac.net (mail-out-3.tiac.net [199.0.65.15]) by mail-out-0.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03968; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:24:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from zazas-l-owner@hollyfeld.org) Received: from www.hollyfeld.org (www.hollyfeld.org [204.130.199.143]) by mail-out-3.tiac.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA10025; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:24:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from zazas-l-owner@hollyfeld.org) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by www.hollyfeld.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA29547 for zazas-l-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:30:10 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www.hollyfeld.org: majordom set sender to owner-zazas-l@hollyfeld.org using -f Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37]) by www.hollyfeld.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA29442 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:24:36 -0500 Received: (qmail 31035 invoked from network); 4 Feb 1999 20:18:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sub.sonic.net) (208.201.224.8) by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 4 Feb 1999 20:18:41 -0000 Received: from bolt.sonic.net (yronwode@bolt [208.201.224.36]) by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26828; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:18:41 -0800 X-envelope-info: Received: (from yronwode@localhost) by bolt.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) id MAA23179; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:18:40 -0800 Message-Id: <199902042018.MAA23179@bolt.sonic.net> Subject: (Z) Yezidism Not a Religion? To: cat@luckymojo.com (sri catyananda), zazas-l@hollyfeld.org (ZAZAS-L Satanist Elist) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:18:40 -0800 (PST) From: "tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com" From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nocTifer) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-zazas-l@hollyfeld.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: zazas-l@hollyfeld.org Status: RO 49990204 IIIom Hail Satan! as I have occasionally done for the last few years when this subject comes up in private email, I turned on the MaGI Networking page, now at: http://www.luckymojo.com/magi/network.html and this is what it gave me on the 'religion' of yezidism: [from http://www.freespeech.org/oneworld/yezidi/abramian.htm ] [an excerpt] The word Yezidi is derived from the Farsi word of Yazdan (sun) attesting to the Yezidi's sun worshipping and Zoroastrian religious beliefs. the Yezidi Kurds defied the Islamic movement in the 7th century choosing to preserve their "pagan Zoroastrian" way of life. Yezidi Kurds have various traditions which are very close to that of Christianity, explains Dr Karlen Chachani. With traces of the Islamic, Christian and Zoroastrian religious religious influences, the Yezidi religion is ruled by Sheikhs, who are descendants of the Arab Moslem Sheikhs who were sent to the Kurdish villages to propogate Islam, but were converted to Yezidism. This is why many Yezidi Sheikhs are of Arab origin. The Yezidi holy bible, Kitabi-Jalwa, is dedicated to Malek Tavous (Grand Peacock), and the Yezidi religious hierarchy separates into four distinct positions of Mires, Sheikhs, Pires (believed to be descendants of Malek Tavous) and Merides. The Sheikhdom tradition, passed on from brother to brother, or from father to son, discourages followers from education, which they believe takes them away from "the Yezidi traditions". Customarily Sheikhs only marry into other Sheikh families, and in the event that there are no available women to marry, the Sheikhs wait for the availabilty of a widowed woman. The Sheikhs deeply influence their followers, and are thus generously compensated for their religious services with donations of such currently scarce goods as gold, money, dairy products and livestock. The six sects of Yezidi Sheikhdom are Sheik Rash (arch Sheikh of Sanjar, Iraq, where the seat of Yezidid religion sits); Sheikh Shamsa; Sheikh Sheikesan; Sheikh Obeker; Sheiikh Biske (taking its name from the Yezidi tradition of baptising a child by cutting the child's hair for good luck) and Sheikhs Sadjadin or Nasardin. In an interview with Sheikh Hasane' (AIM May 1992) he emphasised how some Yezidi intellectuals consider it advantageous to be part of the 20 million Kurdish nation. However, he stated that Yezidis are a separate nation as Yezidism cannot be considered the name of the religion only, because no nation in the world is named after its religion. He further claimed that the Yezidi alphabet is the alphabet of the Yezidi people, as there are no religious alphabets. EOF comments? corrections? blessed beast! __________________________________________________________________________ nocTifer:tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com - http://www.luckymojo.com/rel/satan/ http://www.abyss.com/tokus --- Emergency Contraception:18005849911 ____________...oooOOO---zazas-l@hollyfeld.org---OOOooo..._____________ To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe" to zazas-l-request@hollyfeld.org To unsubscribe your@email.com send "unsubscribe your@email.com" To subscribe send "subscribe" to zazas-l-request@hollyfeld.org http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven