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June 21, 2002
Jaan Pehechaan Ho (2nd verse)
Some people have a deep need for enemies. And what better (or worse) enemy could there possibly be than honest-to-Lucifer Satan worshipers?
That's where, for some, the Yazidis come in:
The belief of Yazidis is a mixture of the beliefs of Islam and Christianity. Their most important book, entitled Kitab-ul-jalwa, is in Arabic and Kurdish, which was translated into German by Maximillian Butner and was edited in 1331 A.H. [1913]. They worship Satan. They call the devil "angel" and "peacock." They will kill any person who swears at the devil.
The only problem is, this isn't quite right.
The term Yezidi comes from the ancient Iranian term for angel or divine being -- similar to the Sanskrit concept of the devi or powerful being, somewhat less than a God, but far beyond the powers of ordinary mortals or superbeings. Thus, the Yezidis are better thought of as angel worshippers than devil worshippers -- although the Angel that they worship is indeed Lucifer
Although there are others who would argue the above is apologetics for evil, evil people.
Confused yet?
Good.
Near as I can piece together from various, conflicting articles, in their version of events, the Peacock Angel Lucifer, also called Melek Taus (transliterated, so the spelling isn't consistent between sources) apologized for his sin of pride (peacocks are known even in the West as a prideful lot, odd since there aren't any here. . .) and was accepted back into the Heavenly Host by God, who's something of an absentee landlord and leaves the Angels to take care of the day-to-day running of the Universe, while He works on his Hendrix riffs.
Oh, and there's no hell:
Malak Ta'us filled 7 jars of tears through 7,000 years. His tears were used to extinguish the fire in hell. Therefore there is no hell in Yazidism.
What's that? The more information you get, the more confusing it all seems?
Maybe you missed this the last time:
Welcome to the real world.
Posted by Aaron at June 21, 2002 06:02 PM