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The Children of Angel Peacock - religion and story of the Kurdish Yezidi

Recardo Gustavo Espeja

The Kurdistan reality introduces us with one of the oldest religions of the humanity, that is, the Yezidi Religion. By reason of migration and expulsion, ten cable envoys follower of this Religion that live also in Germany. Here they would be in the meantime allowed to become the fourth largest religious community following Christians, Moslems and Jews.

Nothing is however revealed to a wider public as good as this tradition deserves it. The sole references to it are “the Devil-worshippers” or “the secret religion”, that are being whispered all couples of weeks by a German Monday magazine. In any case one has a knowledge on the Yezidi area derived from Karl May’s adventure to “the wild Kurdistan”.

Johannes Düchting, a member of the board of directors of the International Centre for Human Rights of Kurds, reports empirical knowledge about the contents of Yezidi religion and the story of the Yezidi people in his work appeared in November, 2004. The author counts numerous members of the religion to his close circle; he repeatedly visited the Yezidi home region (the last time in September, 2004, to the religious centre of Lalish, South Kurdistan (North Iraq), where the tomb of the holy Sheikh Adi bin Musafir is situated).

The two-volume opus describes and compares the contents and practices of the Yezidi religion with those of other Kurdish groups as well as with the Near Eastern religious beliefs; their influences both into and from Yezidism.

Johannes Düchting , The Children of Angel Peacock - Religion and story of the Kurdish Yezidi KOMKAR publication , ISBN : 3 - 927213 - 23 -3.

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