You're quite welcome. I strongly suspect that the Yedizi are the bearers of a part of the "Authentic Tradition" that Mdm. Blavatsky was piecing together in her "Secret Doctrine", among other writers such as Jonathan Sellers (see: http://www.antiqillum.com ) and (less successfully) Kenneth Grant. Akron Daraul writes about them in his "History of Secret Societies", IIRC. Amazing that they, a minority among the Kurdish minority, have held on to, and kept their practices and beliefs for so many centures, living among the Moslems as they have. Frankly, I feared that Saddam had largely wiped them out, but that does not appear to be the case. :-)
Well that's typical misreporting of the facts of the case. The Yezidi religion as it's come down to us stems from the 12th Century, when Shaykh Adi bin Musafir travelled from Ba'albek to Lalish and took possession of a Nestorian monastery there, Mar Hanna, the records tell us, i..e. St. John. What they should have been saying is that the earliest layers of the Yezidi religion go back to pre-Islamic times, particularly to the Median Magi (as opposed to the Zoroastrian Magi), to various elements of the Mesopotamian tradition, even to very early Christianity; and if the name Daisaniyya is related to the name Dasni (one of the Yezidi's own names for their tribe), the Gnosticism of Bar Daisan. All of these Angel Sects (within the broader term of Ahl-i-Haqq, or People of God) have relatively late start dates, considering that Yezidi traditions go back much farther than the 12th Century; and the Nusairi (Alawites) pre-date the Yezidi current, as it is.
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Well that's typical misreporting of the facts of the case. The Yezidi religion as it's come down to us stems from the 12th Century, when Shaykh Adi bin Musafir travelled from Ba'albek to Lalish and took possession of a Nestorian monastery there, Mar Hanna, the records tell us, i..e. St. John. What they should have been saying is that the earliest layers of the Yezidi religion go back to pre-Islamic times, particularly to the Median Magi (as opposed to the Zoroastrian Magi), to various elements of the Mesopotamian tradition, even to very early Christianity; and if the name Daisaniyya is related to the name Dasni (one of the Yezidi's own names for their tribe), the Gnosticism of Bar Daisan. All of these Angel Sects (within the broader term of Ahl-i-Haqq, or People of God) have relatively late start dates, considering that Yezidi traditions go back much farther than the 12th Century; and the Nusairi (Alawites) pre-date the Yezidi current, as it is.
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