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To: occamrzr06

Yazidis are Zoroastrian


17 posted on 08/15/2014 2:40:53 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: BigEdLB

Yes. Zoroastrian and devil worshippers.

Idea is that God is good and there’s no need to fear God.

But the Devil on the other hand is a bad guy who needs to be appeased.

Check out this from a 50’s Adventure magazine.

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/161086690

At page 8 it starts with the author’s Experience with the Yezidis.


30 posted on 08/15/2014 3:55:55 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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Yazidis are Zoroastrian

Their own name for themselves is Daasin (plural Dawaaseen), which is taken from the name of an old Nestorian - the Ancient Church of the East - diocese, for many of their beliefs are derived from Christianity. They revere both the Bible and the Koran, but much of their own tradition is oral. Due in part to its secrecy, there have been misunderstandings that the complex Yazidi faith is linked to Zoroastrianism with a light/dark duality and even sun worship. Recent scholarship, however, has shown that although their shrines are often decorated with the sun and that graves point east towards the sunrise, they share many elements with Christianity and Islam.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28686607

38 posted on 08/17/2014 4:17:37 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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