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Tawusi Melek:
Peacock Angel
In the beginning…The Invisible One brought forth from its own precious soul a white
pearl. And It created a bird upon whose back It placed the pearl, and there He dwelt for forty
thousand years…
Then on the first day, Sunday, It created an angel called Izrael. He is Archangel over all
the Angels, he who is Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel. He is the first to be, and to know that
He is; for the One can know nothing.
Each of the other Days of the week the One brought
forth Angels to serve Melek Taus.
After this, the Invisible One retreated into Itself, and
acted no more; but Melek Taus was left to act.
Seeing the barrenness of the ether,
He created the form of the seven heavens, the earth,
sun and moon.
He created mankind, animals, birds and beasts in the
pockets of his cloak.
Each of the other Days of the week
The One brought forth Angels to serve Melek Taus.
Melek Darda el Melek Israfel Melek Miha el Melek AzraelMelek S emna el Melek Nurael
Then Melek Taus brought
two pieces of the
white pearl.
He placed one below the
earth and the other He
placed at the door of
heaven.
Then he placed in both
of them the sun and the
moon. He made water flow from its inside, and that water
became the sea.
His temple remains to this day…
After that He created a ship in which He rode thirty
thousand years.
After which Melek Taus came and lived among men
in the city of Lâlish.
He lifted up His voice and the sea
became solid and became the earth.
Then Melek Taus brought two
pieces of the white pearl.
He placed one below the earth and
the other He placed at the door of
heaven.
Then he placed in both of them the
sun and the moon.
And so goes the creation story of a race and culture that has been around for thousands of
years…but Tawusi Melek is not who you may think him to be.
In the creation story of the Yezidi, there are parallels to Abrahamic texts.
In the Yezidi Creation Myth: The Peacock Angel creates the earth and man.
In the Abrahamic Creation Myth: God creates the Universe and Man are descendants of Adam
and Eve. Eve is created from Adam‟s rib while the Yezidi believe she came from his armpit.
While the traditions of the Abrahamic religious traditions state that all of man are descendants of
Adam and Eve, the Yezidi believe that they are only descendants of Adam alone not of Adam and
Eve. Could they be the children of Adam and Lilith?..
One extremely interesting difference in their origin of sin is to note that in the Yezidi tradition,
Adam is the one who engages in sin by eating wheat, as opposed to Eve partaking of the forbidden
fruit.
The Yezidi People of what is now Northern Iraq claim that they are the first humans on this earth
and that their creator Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel is the father of mankind. Melek Taus can be
seen as a liminal deity in the fact that he tricks Adam to eat the wheat, is an adversary to the
Invisible One and the creator of the Yezidi peoples.
The Yezidi belief system has some very strong parallels to Sufism and Gnosticism, a belief in the
search for knowledge of Self or truth while rejecting physical realities as being imperfect.
Roots of the Tradition & its Connection
to Others• The most ancient human ritual sites
discovered thus far, Gobekli Tepi and
Catal Huyuk in southern Turkey have
been linked to Yezidi through bird-man
worship.
• The Epic of Gilgamesh may chronicle a
primordial Mesopotamian tradition. It
describes a group of bird-men that
were cast out or fallen from heaven as
gods that preceded Anu, Enlil, and
others in worship.
Similarity to Indian God Kartikeya
• Mark Amaru Pinkham (a Prior of a Gnostic Knights Templar order) claims Yezidi mythos origins in „Garden of Eden‟ to be in Sri Lanka where there used to be a land-bridge between it and Southern India. Supposedly so do other Gnostic-like people in Iraq such as the Mandeans.
• Authentic Yezidi leader Mirza Ismail claims Eden was actually in Lalish, northern Iraq or Mesopotamia. (example of ethnographer‟s influence here –Pinkham‟s own agenda?)
• Long-standing Indian tradition of veneration of gods that ride atop peacocks - Kartikeya and Murugan, androgynous son of Shiva and Shakti
• Yezidi use sacred oil lamps called sanjaks in rituals that resemble South Indian lamps
• After Alexander the Great conquered northwest India there was a Greek expedition to Sri Lanka. The men that went there saw a statue of Kartikeya and claimed it was Dionysus (Bacchus)
• Dionysus and Kartikeya both carry a spear with a pine cone at the tip, respectively called a thyrsus and a vel
• Pinkham believes pine cone spear and serpent symbols are of kundalini or life force, the spear being the spinal cord & pine cone representing the pineal gland. In China dragons represent vitality (xing) also.
Adversaries and their Creators• Some Yezidi claim their
Peacock Angel is Lucifer (Azazel)
• Similar also in some ways to Enki, Pazuzu, Sanat Kumara, Prometheus, al-Khadir “the Green Man”, Pan, Lycaeon, Ahriman, Tezcatlipoca and other trickster characters
• Adversarial figures to their (often merciless to humans) creator or father counterparts Yahweh/God, Enlil, Zeus, Jupiter, Demiurgos, Ahura Mazda, and so on
Archangels, Elohim and the Gnostics• The Biblical and Sumerian traditions,
Zoroastrianism, certain sects of Hinduism and Mandeans all have things in common such as archangels and fallen angels, also to a lesser degree so do Sufis. The Yezidi tradition has Gnostic elements to it in its creation myth.
• „Lucifer‟ was not associated or identified with Satan till the Bible was edited in the form of the New Testament. It only appears once.
•Elohim is PLURAL, just as Nephelim, Seraphim and Cherubim are plural. „God‟ in singular form is „El‟. Any Hebrew-speaking Jew can tell you this.
Rituals and Stars of Various Cultures• The ancient Egyptians, Taoist Chinese and Sumerians all had rites
that invoked the energies of the Big Dipper or Ursa Major (ursa meaning „bear‟), a 7-star constellation that points to the Pole Star
• Kartikeya comes from the word „Kritika‟, Sanksrit for the Pleiades, a constellation with several stars, 7 of which are visible to the naked eye. The Mayans were also very interested in this constellation.
• Babylonian priests re-enacted the journey of mother goddess Inanna/Ishtar by ascending 7-tiered ziggurats or stepped pyramids, which represented her passing through the 7 gates of the underworld and her confrontation with queen of the underworld, Ereshkigal. Each gate had a planet and star.
• Egyptians had a sacred ritual tool called the Adze which mimicked Ursa Major
• Taoists have vitality exercises that channel energy from these stars through the body in a loop called the „microcosmic orbit‟
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Ancients and the Number 7• The Gnostics had 7 rays for each of the 7 archangels
• They had many initiatory rituals and practices. Some of these involved lucid dreaming and astral projection to have conversations with angels to learn how to avoid the influence of the archons (planetary spirits with malintent towards humans) .They were also attempting to trancend the influence of the zodiac to become free.
• 7 main spectrums in light, 7 major tones within the musical octave, 7 stages of alchemy, 7 days of the week, 7 known planets to ancient world, 7 major chakras, 7 deadly sins.
• All are believed to be manifestations or emanations of the one thing and are archetypes within us waiting to be consciously utilized. We can effect change in our reality by understanding these concepts and putting them into action, some call this magic, but really it's our natural state of being, according to them.
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Yezidi People, Sacred
Sites, Customs, Holidays
• Yezidi (or Ezdi as they call themselves) are primarily located in northern Iraq, Syria, Georgia, Turkey. They are in diaspora in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, USA and Germany but also covertly in Algeria, Morocco and Sudan and other countries. Interesting tidbit: Another Indo-European people that relocated from India - the Roma (aka gypsies)
• Yezidi people have a xenophobic, homogenous society because they have been victim to genocide for millennia and generally do not accept outsiders
• They claim to have the most ancient religion in the world. Again, Some of them claim TawusiMelek is Lucifer and that the outcome of his authentic story is omitted from the Abrahamictraditions.
• Lalish, Iraq and Chermera near Syrian border
• Chermera means “Burial of 40 Men”
Sheihk Adi
• Sufi mystic
• saved them from
genocide by making
trappings of their
religion appear more
Islamic
• They have adopted
certain Sufi or Islamic
aspects
• They have dietary restrictions concerning
lettuce and other vegetables and meats. they
wear similar dress to Kurdish Christians and
Muslims and can have multiple wives like
Muslims.
• They are not Semitic like their Arab neighbors
but are an Indo-european Kurdish people. Their
tradition is likely the original Kurdish
religion (most Kurds are now Muslim however).
Kurdistan is an ethnic nation across
northern Iraq, Iran and Turkey, syria and
armenia trying to create sovereignty. They
also are possibly descendants of the Mitanni
people.
Yezidi Holidays and Festivals
Yezidi religious year includes four
holy festivals:
• The New Year
• The Feast of Sacrifice
• The Feast of Seven Days, Sept 23-30
• The first Friday of December feast
following three days of fasting.
The Yezidi New Year
• The Yezidi New Year, known as Sere Sal, meaning
"Head of the Year", is celebrated on a particular
Wednesday of April, known as Red Wednesday.
This day commemorates the Wednesday that
Tawusi Melek first came to Earth millions of
years ago in order to calm the planet’s quaking
and spread his peacock colors throughout the
world.
• Part of the New Year celebration is the
coloring of eggs, which collectively represent
Tawusi Melek’s rainbow colors that he blessed
the world with and displays in his form of the
Peacock Angel. The eggs are principally colored
red, blue, green and yellow. Women also place
blood-red flowers and shells of the colored
eggs above the doors of the Yezidis so that Tawsi
Melek can recognize their abodes.
-yeziditruth.org
The Order of the
Peacock Angel is a
Yezidi-influenced secret
society which is
described by a
pseudonymous author
Arkon Daraul in a 1961
book called Secret
Societies Yesterday and
Today. Daraul writes
about meeting members
of the organization in
the suburbs of London
and also attending their
rituals.
The group believes in a
power governing human
affairs symbolized by a
Peacock. Newcomers
are put through a series
of mental and physical
exercises to place the
experience of emotion
under the control of the
will.
Peacock Angel is the
translation of Melek Taus.
According to Daraul the
English version of the cult
came to Britain in 1913 by a
Syrian whose is only know by
initiates.
Daraul talks about a ceremony where
robed members engage in an ecstatic
circular dance in the presence of a large
statue of a peacock
Ever since the 1960‟s, NBC has adopted the
Peacock logo (interestingly a year after
Daraul‟s book saw publication) and it is still
used today. The logo was created by John J.
Graham to indicate richness in color. The
Peacock was created due to increase in color
programming.
It is unknown whether the Yezidi
people or the related
Westernized secret society had
any say or influence in the
creation of this symbol, but there
is good food for thought here as
the 6 rays can be thought of as
the other 6 subordinate angels.
Pazuzu appears as a statue and
demon in the movie Exorcist:The
Beginning in a secret Catholic Church
that the Vatican would not admit the
existence of and buried underground.
The Peacock
Angel also
appears in a
comic book
called
Witchblade,
and in the DC
universe as
King Peacock
In 2007 a group of radical Muslims
set off a car bomb that killed over
500 Yezidis. It was aimed at killing
their priests or fakirs, who have the
most knowledge about their culture.
Millions of Yezidis have died over
millennia from genocide.
These people are in a diaspora across
the globe, including Europe and other
parts of the Middle East.
If the US leaves Iraq next year, the Yezidis‟
plight will become much more dire.
Muslims and Christian Kurds will continue
to try to wipe them out, as they believe
they are worshipping Satan.
Their tradition provides an alternate understanding of the adversary than
the Judeo-Christian mythos. Rather than dualistic demon opposed to an
angelic figure, the Peacock Angel is the androgynous Planetary Logos
and Oversoul of Earth, King of the World, creator and destroyer.
Yezidism could be the oldest religion in history and presents some
inconvenient religious truths that are worth examining...
The myth of the
Yezidi People has
been
written…
Their future
however is yet
to be decided.
Is it warranted
or sustainable
to continue to
engage each
other in
cultural
conflict and
religious
differences or
is it more
valuable to
embrace our
similarities?
by S
oman
and f
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