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The article from Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics:
YEZIDIS. -- The name of Yezidis has been given to a religious sect numbering about 50,000 persons, scattered from Mosul to the Caucasic region (districts of Mossul, Van, Diarkekr, Bitlis). They call themselves Dasni and speak a Kurdish dialect.
At the head of the community is a khalifah, who is a descendant of Shaikh Adi. Under him are shaikhs, kavvals, and faqirs. Priesthood is hereditary. Morality is above the average in that part of the world. They are brave and shrewd. Their temperament is cheerful but calm. They have cleanly habits. Their women are not veiled and may receive strangers. They feel great repulsion for the colour blue. Being completely illiterate, they handed down their traditions orally. Their greatest festival is on 10th Aug., when a procession of flagellants takes place in the village of Ba'adri. There is the grave of their great saint, Shaikh Adi ben Musafir, who died in A. D. 1155. All around fires of naphtha and bitumen are kept burning.
The Yezidis have been often persecuted by the Turks. During the 19th cent. efforts were made repeatedly to force them into the Turkish army. They have stubbornly resisted that pressure.
The origin of the word Yezidi has been much discussed. Most probably it is related to Av. Yazata, 'deity', Pers. Yazadan, 'God'. It was given to them in contrast either to the Zoroastrians or to the Muhammadans. Although their priesthood is of the Muhammadan type and they recognize Muhammad and Abraham as prophets, they are far from being a Muhammadan sect. Nor are they Nestorians, although they have baptism and regard Christ as an angel in human form. In fact, they perpetuate with various admixtures a doctrine of the Magian type, combining Iranian and Assyrian elements. Their cult of fire is Iranian. They profess that the devil is a creative agent of the supreme God, inasmuch as he produced evil. Hence he deserves our adoration. These ideas resemble closely Mazdaean cosmogony. [cf. art. Zoroastrianism.] Zoroastrianism regarded the worship of the evil spirit (Ahriman) as an abomination, but this did not apply to all Iranian sects. The Mithraists used to offer sacrifices 'deo Arimanio,' and Plutarch [De Is. et Osir. 4 (Chapter 46).] reports that the Magians invoked Hades and Darkness in a sombre place, with libations of the haoma-plant juice and of the blood of a wolf. No doubt, the devil-worship of the Yezidis is a survival of the Magian sects who in those districts would resist orthodox Mazdeism.
The doctrine is supposed to be contained in a sacred book
called Yalvah. It is said to be hidden on a mountain-top where nobody
can go and see it. In fact, the real book, in toe form in which it exists at
present, is written in an obsolete dialect of Kurdish that apparently was in
use in the time of Shaikh Adi. Particulars about the Yezidi books, their authenticity,
and their contents are given by Bittner, ['Die Heiligen Bucher der Jeziden oder
Teufelsanbeter,' DWAW, 1913.] Mingana, [JRAS 1916,
p. 505ff.] and Horten [Der Neue Orient, iii. (1918) 105-107.].
Although the publication of these books has been on the whole disappointing, it has made more certain that Yezidism is an offshoot of Mazdaeism. It is, in fact, simply an effort to bring unity in dualism. It secures that result through presenting darkness as a mere absence of light, and evil as an imperfection the positive element of which is good in the eyes of God, whose plan it serves although, to our insufficient knowledge, it seems to be bad. The book literally says: "I [the Spirit of Good] am active in all events which the outsiders regard as bad because they do not answer to their wishes while they answer to mine." Sin therefore can only be a deficit which is to be made good through the wandering of the soul. The Good Spirit, or First Principle is conceived in a pantheistic way as the light radiating from God and a kind of Logos. It is compared to a white pearl in the sea of Chaos out of which everything has arisen. In this conception we recognize the White Hom of Pahlavi books, a sacred plant growing in the sea Vourukasha and in which the creative power of God is contained. This white pearl is also a bird, a peacock, the most revered symbol of the Yezidis (Malak-Taus). It is also an old Iranian symbol. On the Gaokerna (another name of the White Hom) growing in the cosmic sea roosts the marvellous bird Simurgh (Av. saena), who, under the name of Varegha, is said to have seized the godly glory (Old Pers. farnah) that rested on Yima, the primeval king (also on Zoroaster). Tje Logos-bird of the Yezidis was also supposed to incorporate himself in prophets. They believe him to have manifested himself both in Christ and in Shaikh Adi. The Aryans often compared the sun to a bird. Preference is given to the peacock on account of its way of spreading out its tail like a wheel (the wheel is a still better known symbol of the sun). The same symbol has been found on a Coptic coffin, and in the sacred books of the Mandaites. To what extent the Yezidi doctrine is permeated by that olf symbolism can be shown by a quotation from their books: "Before heaven and earth arose, God rested on the seas. He had made for Himself a boat and was sailing on the waves, glorifying Himself alone. Then emanated out of Him a white pearl, and He reigned upon it forty thousand years till He threw it off out of anger." This mysterious language is very much in the manner of the Iranian Bundahishn. It is clear only to those who know that the Iranians compared the sun not only to a bird, but also to a ship.
LITERATURE. -- J. Menant, Les Yézidis, Paris, 1892; J. B. Chabot, Notice sur les Yézidis, do. 1896; H. Lammens, Le Massif du gebel Simm, Beirut, 1906; R. Frank, Scheich 'Adi, der grosse Heilige der Jezidis, Berlin, 1911; A. Mingana, Devil worsippers: their beliefs and their Sacred Books, JRAS, 1916, pp. 505-526; M. Bittner, Die heiligen Bucher der Jeziden oder Teufelsanbeter, DWAW, 1913; W. B. Heard, Notes on the Yezidis, JAI, xii. [1911], 200-219; M. Horten, Die geheimlehre der Yezidi, der sogenannten Teufelsanbeter, Der Neue Orient, iii. [1918], 105-107.
-- A. J. Carnoy.
From what is written in the Mishaf Resh, Melek Taus is called Izra-il. Yet these names overlap here and there. Sheikh Shems is Israpha-il, Israfel. But, we can also see, Shemesh, the Sun, and Shem-yaza, Samyaza, the leader of the Watchers. The story in the Book of Enoch is that the Watchers were the fallen angels. Here we have Nephilim. They came and taught the humans the arts, crafts, sciences, magick, and so forth. They saw the daughters of men, and lusted after them. So, that Jared and the other good old boys couldn't take it. Kind of like something out of the old west. Today the group is said to exist, called the Sons of Jared. At least they existed at the time of W. Raymond Drake, in the mid 1960s, when he wrote the Gods and Spacemen series. (Excellent series of books, by the way.)
Well, God told Enoch that he was angered over this string of events, and the Watchers were to be sealed up in a pit, or at least Azasel was supposed to be. This was to take place at "the opening in the desert, which is in Dudael"...
Now, did this imply that all the Nephilim were to be rounded up and buried in the bottomless pit? Or -- just Azazel? At any rate, by the time the scapegoat offerings were ordered by Jehovah during the Wilderness years, one goat was to be sent to Azazel,
"Aye, and how we feasted on those goats!" -- received from the Inner Planes during the 1990s c.e.
John. M. Allegro, in THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE CHRISTIAN MYTH, wrote about this concept:
"...it was not merely the populations of Sodom and Gomorrah who lay buried under the reeking debris of the Plain. Long before, in remote antiquity, a group of angels under their leader Azazel had dared to challenge the sovereignty of God and go their own way. It led to that traditional meeting-place of gods and men, Mount Hermon, in the north of Palestine. There the angels took to themselves mortal women as wives, and taught them the arts of enchantments and various skills. Among the heavenly secrets then betrayed were the arts of self-adornment and cosmetics, and 'the cutting of roots and acquaintance with plants' [Enoch 7:1ff], that is, the mysteries of pharmacy and healing.
"A brief reference to this age-old myth of the fallen angels and the havoc they wrought appears in the Bible:
"'When men began to multiply on the face of the ground,
and daughters were born to them, the sons of God [i.e. the angels] saw that
the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose...'
"[Genesis 6:1-2]
"Of that unnatural union was born, as might have been expected, a race of supermen, or giants, called variously Nephilim or Rephaim, both names meaning in origin 'Fallen Ones (from Heaven)'. It was the corruption that their special knowledge introduced into the world that brought mankind to the state when God had no option but to sweep away all life in the Flood and start again with Noah and those he had saved with him in the Ark.
"The Bible makes only a passing reference to the story of the fallen angels, or Watchers, as they are elsewhere called, but the theme is developed at length in apocryphal literature, and particularly in the books of Enoch, whose Essene affinities, if not origin, have already been noted. It is clear that the sectarians believed that they had some special connection with these Rephaim and their heavenly knowledge. They probably interpreted their name as 'Healers', from the Hebrew word rapha'; 'heal', and thus associated it with their own popular designation Essenes, 'Healers, Physicians'. The special skills attributed to the Rephaim, particularly their knowledge of herbalism and enchantments, were just those accredited to the Essenes in our historical sources. In that they would have believed themselves similarly entrusted with these mysteries, they were the spiritual descendants of this super-race.
"It was fitting, then, that the Essenes should take up their residence down by the Dead Sea, for it was just there that the fallen angels lay imprisoned, as we learn from the visions of Enoch. He tells us that the archangel Raphael ('God heals') was told to 'bind Azazel hand and foot and cast him into the darkness, and make an opening in the desert...and place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover his face that he may not see the light. And on the day of great judgement he shall be cast into the fire.' Along with their chief, most of the other rebellious angels were locked into the abyss of judgement in the Rift Valley and left to languish there until arraigned with all mankind before the seat of judgement.
"A few were allowed to rove freely about the world, doing mischief, for it was essential to God's purpose that man's eventual salvation should be tempered in the furnace of temptation, the 'time of trial, or testing' as the Scrolls and the Lord's Prayer call it. In another account of the Watchers story, found in the apocryphal work called Jubilees, another favourite of the Essenes to judge from the copies found in the Scrolls, Noah is made to pray to God:
"'And Thou knowest how Thy Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my day; and as for these spirits which are living, imprison them and hold them fast in the prison of condemnation, and let them not bring destruction on the sons of Thy servant, my God; for these are malignant and created in order to destroy. And let them not rule over the spirits of the living; for Thou alone canst exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from henceforth and evermore.'
"God accordingly had the evil spirits bound. But their chief, here called Mastema ('Enmity'), that is, Satan, protested:
"'Lord, Creator, let some of them remain before me, and let them hearken to my voice, and do all that I shall say unto them; for if some of them are not left to me, I shall not be able to execute the power of my will upon the sons of men; for these are for corruption and leading astray before my judgement, for great is the wickedness of the sons of men.'
"Obligingly, God permitted a tenth of the condemned spirits to remain unbound:
"'all the malignant evil ones we bound in the place of condemnation, and a tenth part of them we left that they might be subject to Satan on earth.'
"However, lest God's favoured sons should be exposed to the mischief of the liberated demons, He allowed Noah to know
"'...all the medicines of their diseases, together with their seductions, how he might heal them with herbs of the earth. And Noah wrote down all the things in a book as we instructed him concerning every kind of medicine. Thus the evil spirits were precluded from hurting the sons of Noah. And he gave all he had written to Shem, his eldest son, for he loved him exceedingly above all his sons.' -- (Jubilees 10:5-14)
"These precious secrets were subsequently passed on to Jacob from Abraham in his blessing:
"'Jacob, my beloved son, whom my soul loveth, may God bless thee from above the firmament, and may He give thee all the blessings wherewith He blessed Adam, and Enoch, and Noah, and Shem; and all the things of which He told me, and all the things which He promised to give me, may He cause to cleave to thee and to thy seed for ever... And the spirits of Mastema shall not rule over thee or over thy seed to turn thee from the Lord...' (Jubilees 19:27-28 [20-21 in the Schodde tr.)
"From Jacob this protective knowledge was passed to his son Levi in
"'all his books and the books of his fathers... that he might preserve them and renew them for his children.' (45:16)
"They thus entered the protective custody of the Levitical priesthood of the Jews, or, as the Essenes would maintain, into that faithful remnant of the priesthood which remained true to their high calling. It has been shown that one of the most powerful officials of the Essene establishment, the Overseer, or Guardian, whose functions are so strongly reminiscent of the Church's Bishop, was chosen from the order of Levites. He may thus have claimed his authority as a spiritual healer from this special knowledge, derived ultimately from the Rephaim, 'Healers', of antiquity, through Shem, Noah's favourite son.
"Thus protected with angelic knowledge of healing, the Essenes were able to take up their station above the 'cleft in the desert' where the fallen sons of God lay imprisoned." -- pp. 63-66.
While we cannot make direct connections between the Essenes and the Yezidis, without going through a long circuitous route, it may be worth mentioning that the chief of the Anunnaki was ANU, whose symbol is the eight armed cross. This symbol is displayed prominently next to the Peacock on the Yezidi website, Denge Ezidyan (for which see the links below).
According to Sidney Nettleton Fisher, THE MIDDLE EAST: A HISTORY, the Yezidis follow the theology of the Isma'ilis but assign the divine attributes to the Umayyad Caliphs Yazid and Marwan. It is likely that this was a means of survival through the practice of religious dissimulation and the use of double entendres. And, as we have seen, Sheikh 'Adi is descended from the Umayyad dynasts.
We can see from the Mishaf Resh that several of the Yezidi angels are named after Ismai'li figures. There is Sajadin, which is reminiscent of Saladin. There is Nasir al-Din who reminds us of Nasir ud-Din. This character figures in the Nusairi hierarchy too. Mikail who is Shaykh Abu Bakr could be the Abu Bakr who was the 1st Khalifa after Muhammad in 632 c.e. Also mentioned in the list of kings identified with Yezidi angels, are Shapur I and II. The former lived during the 3rd Century c.e., and died circa 272 c.e., prior to Mani's death. The latter, came to power after Mani's death. The former occupied the areas around which the Yezidis flourished, including Harran and Nisibis.
Today they are considered by some, to be an "extreme Shi'a sect".
This, then, is the sect of the Yezidis, using the material that is available to us, and what present materials we can find (at least what we can afford, that is). The Yezidis are the worshippers of the Primal Fire, that ever burning Flame, deep, deep, inside all creation, the spark of Life that the dying ones envy. They are perhaps connected with the other groups that we have been surveying, but in reality they are unique in all the world.
Newer comments.
It is clear to us, after going through all of the materials that we possess on this unique group, that we are touching on something very vital. It is no longer acceptable to us, to simply regard this group as "Devil Worshippers". We posed the question elsewhere in our body of work: The humans worship the Gods, or God; but to whom or to what do the Gods pay their respects to?
Perhaps the smug monotheist can shrug it all off as a hotbed of heathenism. Perhaps the atheist, or the materialist could say, "Who cares?" But, it is clear to us, that there are some things that are every bit as much a part of the fabric of natural existence and the evolution of the race, as nature itself.
When we read these legends, we may think some of them to be absurd, like the injunction not to eat lettuce. Funny, we have never particularly cared much for lettuce. Or the injunction not to pass water standing up. Or the legend about Adam's belly swelling, and his discomfort at not having an outlet. It happens. These days, of course, we have Metamucil or some other such thing, to assist in the process. But there are elements that take us back in time, past the time in which they were first put to paper. We can go back to the days of early Christianity in the Middle East; even back to the original sects that were the inspiration for Christianity. That takes care of superseding two major world religions, and we can include the Jews as well. This thing is all about the Book, yet the Book is forbidden to its worshippers. Perhaps there is logic in that! One can recall the "Comment" to Liber AL vel Legis. All about the Book, not just the Yezidi Books, but that which forms the basic underpinnings of the Bible itself, and by extension, the Koran.
We can see in the Hymn and the Prayer, quoted above, striking comparisons with various texts that have been in use since the 19th Century: the Z Documents of the Golden Dawn; the prayer from the Adeptus Minor ceremony (In the First Point) and its paraphrase, as the Preliminary Prayer in one of those works that doesn't exist; then, of course, we can see it in elements presented in the Bornless Ritual, particularly that version which Crowley truly beautified as Liber Samekh; and again, in Liber A'ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici; and, perhaps, as well, in Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus. Perhaps Crowley was correct in stating that it was his goal to revive the Sumerian tradition. Perhaps Aiwass (and his cousins, brothers, and sisters) is one of these Angelic entities that Communicated not only to Crowley and his successors, but to those 0f Us who are Fit Recipients for the Word. As well as those earlier precedent-setters, in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Ancient America as well. Particularly, the Angel Cultus, which goes back to Yarsanism, Yezidism, and the Alawite movement. The Nusairis are the eldest of these from what we've been reading, and they have connections going back to the early days of Christianity. There is nothing that states that this cannot be so.
Imagine a natural spirituality that needs no slavish worship. Oh, it can be, if one wants it, but who would, after experiencing the objects of these pursuits? Perhaps at one time the Nephilim, or Anunnaki, were outside the box, and humankind were inside the box. The twain were forbidden to meet, and the latter were given their orders from the former, by invisible commands, like the adults in a Peanuts cartoon. At one time, according to the Book of Enoch cycle of writings, the Sons of God came down, on Mount Hermon, not far from where Sheikh 'Adi is said to have been born. They came down, unto the daughters of men, and found them fair. Perhaps. Perhaps it was considered evil by the humans. We can see where this sort of thing would be considered evil, today. An episode of The Outer Limits, from the first season (1963 - 1964), The Children of Spider County, is a good example of what we are talking about. Is such a scenario far too fanciful, in any day and age? Are we too jaded? Are we too conditioned by our shepherds to look at these things objectively? It is not a matter of belief, it is a matter of connecting the dots. The biggest area where we draw blanks is between the Ancient Sumerian Originals, and the Enochian cycle of writings, which came out at the time the Messianic Age was commencing, at the time the last Sar began. True, there were Anakim in the Promised Land, which survived the Deluge miraculously. And perhaps there were Emims and Rephaim, too.
With a realization as profound as this, and it is very profound (even if there be those in our readership who consider this not to be the case): we can see grave implications indeed for the three major world religions that have maintained their supremacy over the rest of the world for far too long, because sooner or later Truth will prevail, and if we are to have any second coming scenarios, then a lot of people will be truly surprised, when they find themselves "Left Behind."
To quote Carl Sagan out of context, "Billions and Billions..."
There may be plenty of other source materials that could be referenced, many of which are newer than those which we have been using. Indeed, the nit-pick artist may find plenty with which to pursue their trade by perusing the dates of our sources, but, really, not much has really come out pertaining to these traditions, and what else exists, like the works of Lady Drower, for example, we do not have access to. If people must whine and complain about dated sources, then they can rectify it by mailing us copies of everything we lack, we'll supply the mailing address to interested parties in exchange for their own. Just email us at info@antiqillum.com !
Allegro, John Mark. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth.
Allison, Christine. From Spoken Word to Written Scripture, 4: The Evolution of the Yezidi Religion.
Bennett, J. G. The Masters of Wisdom. New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1977.
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. ISIS UNVEILED.
Carnoy, A. J. Yezidis, article in Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.
Charles, R. H., tr., ed. The Book of Enoch.
Collins, Andrew. From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race. Rochester Vermont: Bear and Company, 2001.
Dadrawala, Noshir H. The Yezidis of Kurdistan -- Are They Really Zoroastrians? --internet article. See links below.
Daraul, Arkon. A History of Secret Societies, pages 141-155.
Drake, W. Raymond. Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient East.
-- . Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient Past.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th Edition, 1930 and 1958 printings. Numerous articles.
Fisher, Sidney Nettleton. The Middle East: A History.
Forlong, Maj. Gen. J. G. R. Rivers of Life, or Sources and Streams of the Faiths of Man in all Lands; etc. In two volumes. Volume II, pp. 87 - 88. London, N. P., 1883.
Frazer, Sir James G. ADONIS, ATTIS, AND OSIRIS.
Gilbert, Adrian. Magi: The Quest for a Secret Tradition.
Grant, Kenneth. Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God.
Guérinot, A. Review of F. Nau's Recueil de Textes et du Documents sur les Yézidis.
Gurdjieff, G. I. Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson.
-- Meetings With Remarkable Men.
Hedsel, Mark. The Zelator: A Modern Initiate Explores the Ancient Mysteries.
Higgins, Sir Godfrey. Anacalypsis. Volume I. 1833.
Hislop, Alexander. The Two Babylons.
Izady, Dr. Mehrdad R. excerpts from The Kurds: A Concise Handbook. On the Kurdish Worldwide Resources website.
Joseph, Isya. Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz. Original Edition: 1919. This edition: Montana: Kessinger Publishing Company, n.d.
Keel, John. Jadoo, pages 70-113.
LaVey, Anton Szandor (Howard). The Satanic Rituals.
Layard, Austen Henry. A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh, 1854.
Lightfoot, J. B. On Some Points Connected With The Essenes. [Online essay, originally written/published in 1875. Available from www.philologos.org
Lloyd, Seton. Early Highland Peoples of Anatolia.
--. The Art of the Ancient Near East.
Mallowan, M. E. L. Early Mesopotamia and Iran.
Miller, Edith Starr, aka "Lady Queensborough". Occult Theocrasy.
Mingana, Alphonse. The Yezidis: The Devil Worshippers of the Middle East, Their Beliefs and Sacred Books. This Edition: Edmonds WA: Holmes Publishing Group, 2000. Originally taken from an Archaeological Journal.
Mishaf Resh extract, along with the al-Jilwah extract, from the Internet, emailed to us by one of our associates.
National Geographic Society. Map, "Lands of the Eastern
Mediterranean," January 1959.
-- . Map -- Lands of the Bible Today, December 1967.
Noss, John B. Man's Religions, 6th Edition.
Ouspensky, P. D. In Search of the Miraculous.
Pike, Albert. Legenda for the 25°
Pines, Shlomo. The Jewish Christians of the Early Centuries of Christianity According to a New Source. THIS EXCELLENT ESSAY is from an online site devoted to EBIONITE traditions.
Pritchard, James B., ed. The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures.
Roux, Georges. Ancient Iraq.
Siouffi, N. Notice sur la Cheikh Adi, et la Secte des Yézidis.
--. Notice sur la Secte des Yézidis.
Sitchin, Zecharia. The 12th Planet.
Shah, Idries. The Sufis.
-- . The Way of the Sufi.
Simon, ed. The Necronomicon.
Thorwald, Jurgen. Macht und Geheimnis der Fruhen Arzte.
Walewski, Count Stefan Colonna. A System of Caucasian Yoga, As Orally Received by Count Stefan Colonna Walewski. Introduction by Charles W. Muses. Originally published by Falcon's Wing Press of Indian Hills Colorado in the year 1955. This edition: Bayside: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1987, reprint edition.
Webster, Nesta. Secret Societies and Subversive Movements.
Notice sur les Yézidis, publée d'après deux manuscrits syriaques de la Bibliothèque Nationale, et traduité par M. J. -B. Chabot.
De Beyrouth à Tiflis (A Travers la Syrie, La Haute-Mésopotamie, et le Kurdistan) by M. Ernest Chantre (1881).
Voyage en Mésopotamie, Eugéne Flandin, 1840-42.
Note sur les sects danse le kurdistan. T. Gilbert, JA, October 1873.
Épisodes de l'histoire du Kurdistan, M. Addai Scher, JA, January-February 1910.
Un Courte Conversation avec le Chef de la Secte des Yézidis, ou Les Adorateurs du Diable, by N. Siouffi.
Notice sur la Secte des Yézidis, by N. Siouffi
Notice sur la Cheikh 'Adi et la Secte des Yézidis, by N. Siouffi.
Reviews:
Rapport sur les transactions de la Sociéte ethnologique de Londres, T. 1, first part.
Documents du 18e Siecle relatifs aux Yézidis
Recueil des textes et de documentes sur les Yézidis. This work gives a lot of sources in French and German primarily, for Yezidi researches up to 1917 c.e.
http://www.angelfire.com/az/rescon/mgcyazid.html
An interesting article, part of a book, on the Yezidis. A lot of this appears to connect with what we have found in our French sources.
http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/DevilsOwn.htm
Mainly on the conflicts between Ormuzd and Ahriman, mentions that Melek Taus comes from Zoroastrianism.
http://www.yezidi.org/english/e_main.html
Denge Ezidyan -- Forum of Yezidism. This is a periodical. The Website has articles, and there is an email list. Notice the symbol of the Peacock Angel, and the 8-armed cuneiform cross, the glyph for AN, ANU; Star; Heavens; God. This was a glyph associated with ANU.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/layard/disnin08.htm
Layard's Discoveries at Nineveh, chapter 8, which is the chapter that discusses the Yezidis. The entire book is available, and can be downloaded.
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~zarathus/deen33f.html
THE YEZIDIS OF KURDISTAN - ARE THEY REALLY ZOROASTRIANS ??? by Noshir H. Dadrawala. A rather hostile article attacking the Yezidis.
http://www.arab.net/iraq/tour/iq_mountains.html
ArabNet -- Iraq, Tour Guide, North-East Mountains.
http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/satanism/yezidi2.txt
The Yezidis before Sheikh 'Adi, A scientific religious research, by Dr. Pir Mamou Othman.
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