Upon hearing the recent atrocity commited on this people i did a wiki and found interesting things about them.
They worshipped the peacock…
Re: Yazidi' religion
huh?
Re: Yazidi' religion
oh......i thought you're talking about Yazdi's religion....LOL
Re: Yazidi' religion
Nah Yazidis...a people in Iraq!
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Oh, I heard about some shia-sunni fights in Iraq in news few days back, newspaper was saying shia worship peacock etc.....now i think it wasn't shia but it was yazidi.
Re: Yazidi' religion
they're a mixture of islam and christian mysticism (gnosticism). they dont believe satan should be reviled or hated, but their version of satam is held in high esteem as an emissary of God. The peacock is associated with him.
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^^ They think that peacock is associated with Satan? Is that because Satan, hiding as a serpant, used peacock to transport himself into paradise to entice Adam and eve to eat the forbidden fruit.
You said the they dont beleive the Satan should be hated, does not mean that they should start praying things associated to satan
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well afaik their satan figure is not evil, and that Allah wasnt angry with satan after he refused to bow before him, but infact gave him dominion over the heaven and earth. they worship him because they believe Allah sort of washed his hands of the world and the immediate point of contact is Satan. Greeks had a similar view of the ultimate God, so do Christians (the Father being the ultimate creator, Jesus being his gateway of sorts). they were influenced by Christian Gnosticism, which includes some amount of ethical monism i.e. not viewing things as externally good or evil but an outcome of human nature so dont blame Satan for humanity’s fall.
no idea why they associate the peacock with him, possibly because its a regal bird, and they make this deity out to be very regal. then again certain branches of gnostic christians (Ophites) worshipped the serpent, so it could have something to do with what you say.