Yazidi Religion Explained

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Bibliography:
Eszter Spät, “The Song of the Commoner: The Gnostic Call in Yezidi Oral Tradition.” In In Search of Truth: Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism. Ed. J. A. van den Berg and J. van Schaik, 663-683. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Victoria Arakelova, "Book Review of God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect,” in Iran and the Caucasus 11 (2007).
Richard Foltz, “The ‘Original’ Kurdish Religion? Kurdish Nationalism and the False Conflation of the Yezidi and Zoroastrian Traditions,” Journal of Persianate Studies, 10 (2017), 87-106.
Peter Nicolaus, “The Serpent Symbolism in the Yezidi Religious Tradition and the Snake in Yerevan,” Iran and the Caucasus 15 (2011), 49-72.
Sebastian Maisel, “Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority."
Philip Kreyenbroek, "Yezidism Its Background Observances and Textual Tradition."
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@ReligionForBreakfast 2 года назад

To learn about another Middle Eastern ethnoreligious group, next watch "Who are the Druze?": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3JYnvauAzSQ.html

@mikecrews2713 Год назад

I'm Christian but I like to know what is going on with other religions and culture.

@m.n.9496 Год назад

I'm so glad I found your channel

@jamesnomos8472 Год назад

Why is there cuneiform in the image displayed at 2:36?

@Jenvlogs404 7 месяцев назад

We should protect grassroots that are truly innocents and being preyed on.

@aminrodriguez4707 6 месяцев назад

Great job, as usual.

@gabriel.knight 3 года назад

We had Yazidis in our high school in Germany - never realized how rare that is until a decade later.

@denizmetint.462 3 года назад

I've never met one in my life

@stephanfree250 3 года назад

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.

@sathish2532 3 года назад

Yes, they follow oldest tamil cultures.

@BellaliebtLulu 3 года назад

@@denizmetint.462 Here is one🥰

@denizmetint.462 3 года назад

@@BellaliebtLulu Salutations, I hope things are going well for you and your family.

@danialashraf99 3 года назад

A fascinating video about dualism and Yazidism. As Muslim, I denounced the act of terror made by the so-called Islamic State towards the Yazidis, Assyrians, Armenians, Chaldean & other minorities in Iraq & Syria. May God bless these people.

@dust001 3 года назад

Why do you denounce the acts of the Islamic State? It's in accordance with the teachings of Islam as presented in the Qur'an, the Hadith and commentaries and opinions of Muslim scholars through 1400 years.

@humanity600 3 года назад

@@dust001 the qur'an has several versions, I doubt the original teachings condoned this behaviour...

@dust001 3 года назад

@@leopardofdawah1340 I have personally watched hundreds of hours of apologetics and they can only deceive uneducated people on the subject, as a former Muslim who is also an Arab I got to study the Quran and it's interpretations in Arabic same as the Hadith, the Shariah and other fields of Islamic studies, what I've learned is that what Isis did was in perfect accordance with every thing the prophet and his companions did, you can watch all the apologetic videos you like but as long as you don't open the actual traditions you wouldn't learn a thing.

@PaintedHoundie 3 года назад

Here we go with the unnecessary Islam arguments..

@Nomad1992 3 года назад

@TheApocalypseApostate because Muslims are not walking Qur’ans, the same way Christians are not walking Bibles and Jews are not walking Torahs. There is no such thing as true Islam, there are as many Islams as there are Muslims, the same is true for Christians and Jews.

@Pu-nishant 3 года назад

I can see so many Similarities between Yazidi and Indic(Indian) Religion. My appeal to Yazidi brothers never abandoned your believes. One day we will sit together drinking tea and exchange our Idea of God.

@RajKumar-xs6ue 3 года назад

Tea? nah.. We need beer

@Pu-nishant 3 года назад

@@RajKumar-xs6ue after beer we don't discuss God but discuss about women 😂

@barbaraolson600 3 года назад

Love many beliefs of yazdis. The fact that he’ll has been destroyed makes total sense as God is all powerful,

@RajKumar-xs6ue 3 года назад

@@Pu-nishant only amateur drinkers get boozed after few beers

@Pu-nishant 3 года назад

@bir ümmet tek millet We Hindus know how our God look like. Do muslim know how Allah look like ? A men or a women or alien ? Why would you believe in a God who never visited earth to save us.

@Avan.22. 3 года назад

I'm Yazidi from iraq and i love all religion💟🙏🌹

@blackraven2062 2 года назад

I’m an atheist and I love Yazidi people ❤️

@EzraB123 Год назад

I'm Jewish and I'm very fascinated by the Yazidis. I see much overlap with my own culture. I hope you and your family are safe, may G-d protect you.

@rohitbhushan7229 Год назад

Love you from India. Our civilization stands with Yazidi community. Your practices have similarities with our practices. We welcome you to India

@bilalelomari323 Год назад

May Allah curse you

@indrajeet7311 Год назад

May God give you protection from the people those who want to convert or destruct the Non believers So called #peacefuls

@goblinsdammit 3 года назад

I recently went to the world's largest Yazidi temple under construction in Armenia! Very beautiful and interesting architecture.

@pahbody5336 3 года назад

Wow they have cool hats

@AdamSahr-cj4kf 3 года назад

I recently went to Taipei and saw some very tall sky scrapers... How does that improve the human condition ?! Just asking ...

@pahbody5336 3 года назад

Adam Sahr place to chill for old people?

@goblinsdammit 3 года назад

@Killikia Productions Are you sure about that? It had similarities to Armenian architecture but it also looked quite different.

@jindapurebeauty 3 года назад

Can you give me the address?

@ysolla85 3 года назад

We just had the first group of lovely Yazidi students graduate from our local high school in Wagga Wagga, Australia. So proud of them, after everything they've been through ❤️❤️❤️

@shankaranarayanan9730 3 года назад

Tamil God 'MURUGAN' #முருகன் 🙏🙏🙏

@blackraven2062 2 года назад

Always let love lead the way ❤️❤️❤️

@zaidanhasan2748 2 года назад

Can you help us to come to Australia we love Australian and we want to come but there is no way please help us Yazidi 🙏❤️

@macs3948 Год назад

Goofy ahh city name

@ysolla85 Год назад

@@macs3948 it's from a local First Nations term that means "to dance or celebrate"

@nikhilyadav5718 3 года назад

The Peacocks are only found in Indian Subcontinent also Yazids use fire lamp... I guess they have a connection with India

@erkangreen6182 3 года назад

In case anyone wonders why there are so many similarities to hinduism. Yazidis and Hindus have the same ancestry. both groups belong to the Indo-Iranian family. and thousands of years ago these peoples all lived together. Yazidis have their origins in present-day Iran and at that time these areas bordered on the Vedic cultures

@melhembarkat7800 3 года назад

@@erkangreen6182 On the contrary, we are Lina Hindus, as our history goes back to thousands of years before the advent of the Hindus. We are the oldest religion that existed on the surface of the earth and we are the first religion that knew the existence of God. The word Yazidi is the greatest evidence of my words. Especially our local dialect

@shankaranarayanan9730 3 года назад

Tamil God 'MURUGAN' #முருகன்

@shirokun4742 3 года назад

@@melhembarkat7800 Google this Oldest religion

@melhembarkat7800 3 года назад

@@shirokun4742 Yes, it is the oldest religion on earth

@prognosis8768 3 года назад

The first referenced that I ever encountered to Yazidis was in an H.P. Lovecraft story. In the "Horror at Red Hook" Lovecraft refers to them as "the Yezidis, last survivors of the Persian devil-worshippers". So, there is an example of the type of incorrect characterizations of their belief system that they have historically suffered.

@Eamonshort1 2 года назад

Wait, H.P. Lovecraft? Holding bigoted beliefs? Well colour me surprised, actually don't, I know how Lovecraft felt about coloured people.

@arturhashmi6281 2 года назад

@@Eamonshort1 his dog's name was n...

@thesolantor8624 2 года назад

@@arturhashmi6281 it was his cats actually

@PaintedHoundie 2 года назад

@@Eamonshort1 i just did a research paper about him. i was gonna explore whether or not he was racist, then i discovered he was everythingist and had to adjust the research paper accordingly

@alioffiziel6928 2 года назад

The angel Taus is the representative of God for this earth, tausi melek and God created Adam... when the world was completed on a Wednesday, Tausi melek came to earth as a peacock angel symbol... before that tausi melek had the primeval pearl 40 million years on her back... until it burst and everything became earth and water Mankind should finally accept archangels

@RM-yf2lu 3 года назад

The way they use the fire looks just just like hindu "Aarti"

@rouhinbiswas7958 3 года назад

Yea bruh, its much looks like ganga arti, and the yazidi worship place looks like Hindu mandirs, the caste system, the 7 angels looks like 7 sages of Hinduism, its looks like they are the long lost brethrens of Hindus.

@spiyengar6769 3 года назад

Yes. It is SKANDA, SHIVA’s son and you can see snakes and Peacock (SKANDA’s VAAHANA) who was brought up by 7 matrukas and of course their temples resemble Hindu temples. They perform ARTHI exactly as Hindus do.

@karthikdon5 3 года назад

Yes it's related with Tamil civilization of India..... Malek Taus it's a Tamil word which is "Thava Meylon" means murugan in meditation posture, he is worshipped in that form. See my display picture.

@RM-yf2lu 3 года назад

@Yusuf patel if that is so then how come the philosophy is so vastly different? Your statement would imply that the Abraham character was introduced quite recently into India, yet be made into the head of their pantheon of God's which were around for millennia. Seems highly unlikely to have occurred in the manner in which you suggest. Do you have documentation to back up your claim?

@RM-yf2lu 3 года назад

@Yusuf patel I'm an atheist and I'm not indian, but it's clear what your agenda is...

@cladivostoc 3 года назад

As someone who's interested in anthropology and everything culture, I can only say THANK YOU RFB 💙

@yakubmohamoud 3 года назад

Hey dude thank you so much, I did not know the name of the feeling of love I have for world religions and culture and now I found it. Cheers 🍻

@yakubmohamoud 3 года назад

Jose Martel De Leon Gonzales no, I am thinking of switching field from Software Engineer to a more management and communication focused role in an international company (and maybe even doing a PhD in Communication methodology in IT sectors). But learning about others faith, political views and cultural practices helps in breaking down communication. Well that’s the theory anyways and I want to see if the data supports it

@keeya_ks 8 дней назад

Except his completely ignored anthropology regarding the most important part of the religion which is the worship of the peacock which is not native to the Middle East and was only indigenous to india in ancient times until the Greeks and other foreigners entered India and took them back to their lands

@tc2334 3 года назад

The sanjak looks like a lot like the lamps that are very common in Hindu temples.

@ashishmoudgil972 3 года назад

Video maker have zero % knowledge about yazidi religion.... First all older civilization belongs to Aryans and yazidi was older group of Sanatan Dharma....

@rak810 3 года назад

yes brother. everything is hindu.

@tc2334 3 года назад

@purva Honestly, that wouldn't surprise me. Especially since Hinduism was spread far through the middle east throughout history.

@kakalimukherjee3297 3 года назад

It's not Hinduism, my dear bhakts, but a proto indo-european religion from which Hinduism and the other religions except the abrahamic religions came. Sadly, all except Hinduism are dead

@rak810 3 года назад

@@kakalimukherjee3297 nooo you are wrong.

@anvilbrunner.2013 3 года назад

I have a 12th century Ezidi fire bowl made of bronze. The seven angels & Sheikh Adi ibn Musa are depicted by engraving & perforated filigree around it's circumference. On the base is a geometric engraving which represents the Melek Taus. If a flame is placed in the bowl in a dark room, the perforations emit projections of light on the walls. It is a beautiful relic & fine work of art.

@ay0ung373 Год назад

Hi what’s your socials I am yezidi myself and would love to see a picture

@anvilbrunner.2013 Год назад

@@ay0ung373 I will post a video of it & I will tell you when I have uploaded it.

@anvilbrunner.2013 Год назад

@@ay0ung373 I just uploaded a video of the fire bowl on my youtube channel for your pleasure.

@ay0ung373 Год назад

@@anvilbrunner.2013 also forbidden to say his name in any other language

@anvilbrunner.2013 Год назад

@@ay0ung373 There might be a comment missing there. Or half a message.

@EmmanuelMarin07 3 года назад

I became teary eyed at many points in this video; I feel so sorry for them. I know I shouldn't pity them though; in fact, I should be inspired by them because they and their practices have withstood the test of the time over and over and over again. I just hope one day they won't ever have to live in fear like this. And with videos like this, we can help them through first identifying them correctly.

@AC-mp7cx 3 года назад

more Muslims have been killed by ISIS than yazidis btw

@lets_wrapitup 3 года назад

@@AC-mp7cx exactly, yet people want to identify isis with Islam which is completely bs. They’ve even killed more Muslims than Americans/Christians

@sero6976 3 года назад

@@lets_wrapitup It is Islam though, their ideologies are completely based on Islam, they fight in the name of Islam and their founder had a PhD degree in Islamic studies.

@lets_wrapitup 3 года назад

@Ashish Rajput lol

@zaidanhasan2748 2 года назад

I am a Yazidi. What Islam did between us, Turkey and all Muslims was cruel. ISIS applied the ideas of the Qur’an, and this is the reality of ISIS, the killers of Christians and other minorities.

@Curdledgorilla 3 года назад

When I learned about the Yazidis a few weeks ago, this channel is the first place I checked for further information on them. Glad to finally see it.

@CSHallo 3 года назад

There was a BBC series a little over a decade ago called Around the World in 80 Faiths. It was overall dilettantish. But they had a fascinating episode on the Yazidi with footage in Lalesh. I recommend it for the visuals alone.

@magister343 3 года назад

I helped build a Habitat for Humanity house for a family of Yazidi refugees a few years ago. One of the more interesting work days on that house was when we had a group of international students come to paint the house. Several of those students were Saudi Arabians, whom I assume were Wahhabi. I don't think I've ever seen more shock on anyone's face than the moment we told then they would be working to help Yadizis from Iran. Those student didn't get much work done as they took several long breaks for prayer.

@hermescarraro3393 Год назад

What do you mean? Why did they pray? Was it because they felt bad for them or because they were disgusted by them and felt sinful?

@hermescarraro3393 Год назад

Ooooh... Now I see... Yeah... Ouch

@lalitabhandari3973 3 года назад

God! That's sees like the middle eastern version of Hinduism... Even the temples, worshiping the Sun, etc is similar to Hinduism

@einsjam 3 года назад

Oh shut it. Stick to India.

@lalitabhandari3973 3 года назад

@@einsjam I know that is a completely different religion, if you are an Ezidi/Yazidi .... Didn't mean to hurt anyone's religious centiment ... And in case you are not a Yazidi, shut the F up

@einsjam 3 года назад

@@lalitabhandari3973 hey, stop finding similarities in every religion. You guys literally live and breath conspiracies and fantasies.

@lalitabhandari3973 3 года назад

@@einsjam ok Boss... Peace... Understood... Will take care

@lalitabhandari3973 3 года назад

@Anne Liam I thought the same... However later Abrahamic religions were followed and those common traits of worshipping natural forces slowly got almost extinct... Didn't really know before watching this video that these rituals somehow managed to exist

@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 3 года назад

I'd love to see a video on the differences among Greek, Russian, Coptic, and Ethiopian versions of orthodoxy. Differences among Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Ethiopian Judaism would be fascinating, too.

@hungjury7482 3 года назад

Well regarding Judaism, the only significant differences are regarding holidays. Some restrictions are different and the Sephardic Jews have a different and longer but less intense preperation to Yom Kippur. There are also a fee holidays but those are nationality not religious. Hope this helps!

@johnwilson6324 3 года назад

@Fabrisse ter Brugghe There are some differences in terms of how to interpret religious law (Such as "pilpul"): www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-pilpul-and-why-on_b_507522?guccounter=1

@Janine.Najarian Год назад

Way to forget us homeboy 🇦🇲🙄🇪🇷😑💙🤍❤️

@dargossss 3 года назад

I like that you bring to public light a lot of mostly unknown religions, this one in particular was very interesting. Thank you, and keep up the good work.

@junaid1 3 года назад

This was so beautifully prepared and presented. You are a tribute to historians everywhere. Your research and your attribution to other's research displays so much integrity and proper scholarship. I look forward to each video you make. They are so intelligently produced. These are the kind of subjects one does not learn in school or in church.

@naruvimama 3 года назад

Based on practice Peacock Shape of oil lamps Shape of temples Use of holy fire Reincarnation It could easily be a sub culture within Hinduism.

@shilvimuthanna5132 3 года назад

I highly doubt it. Yazidism is a part of a larger realm of Iranian religions collectively termed 'Yazdanism'. Therefore, it is highly unlikely it is related to Hinduism. If anything, Yazidism is a sub sect of Zoroastrian ism. Yazidism is monotheistic, unlike Hinduism. The shape of lamps cannot be used as a comparison. It doesn't act as concrete evidence.

@shilvimuthanna5132 3 года назад

@रामशिष्यऽर्यः । Yazidism was a part of the Abrahamic Zoroastrian Covenant. The First Prophet (Nabi) that the Yazidis recognize is Adam. Also, all the angels of Yazidis are mentioned in the Torah, the New Testament and the Quran. Nowhere are they mentioned in any Hindu work. Yes you are correct. Monotheism is what is the real Hinduism.

@sheikharfat1997 3 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂. The history and origins of the religion are a complete rip off from Islam and Christianity but still you want to associate it with your religion. 😂😂

@shilvimuthanna5132 3 года назад

@@sheikharfat1997 My religion is paganism soo...👀... Not even Muslim or Christian or Jewish lol... How dumb

@tampabay2888 3 года назад

@@sheikharfat1997 they hv very less resemblance with abrahamic religion. If somethin may b becoz of coexistence or may b afraid if islam n Christians persecution

@313heythere 3 года назад

This was really wonderful. I can't help but smile whenever I see a new upload. Thank you so much for what you do. This kind of content is so important.

@chriswestphal723 3 года назад

This guy should have so many more views/subscribers... Very well spoken and researched. Been subscribed for 2 or 3 years and have learned so much.

@annarivera912 3 года назад

I read about this religious group many years ago. Apparently Sadam Hussein protected their religious practice and once he was eliminated their safety was no longer protected. Thank you for this video because I forgot the name of this religion and every time I told folks about this religion they thought I was crazy once I mentioned the peacock. I appreciate this!

@Janine.Najarian Год назад

Yeah. He wasn't a nice guy by any means but we had no right to depose him especially considering what he was doing for the religious minorities. Everybody gets one 🤷🏻‍♀️

@manga12 7 месяцев назад

@@Janine.Najarian yea but gassed the kurds, those that are persian diaspora from long ago like parsis in india

@BlazingFlame69 7 месяцев назад

@@manga12 You know living under one terror but stable dictatorship is better than living in an unstable landscape where your dont know what will happen to you. Also i hate yall for only seeing the crimes commited by Easterners but dont see the hell EU and USA is doing upon all around the world

@dragonmaster3207 7 месяцев назад

@@Janine.Najarianalso the killings of the Shia

@ellaartenstein853 7 месяцев назад

⁠⁠⁠@@basuta-dshrara Dude your country invaded another country unprovoked, decimated their public infrastructure, murdered 500,000 people, is now in a shitty situation all around because of your country’s actions there, and somehow all your country did was “respond to help”? Also if you think there was a reason for the Iraq war other than oil you are dumb.

@kristenphelps4602 3 года назад

I've been living in Kurdistan for the past 6 years, have been to Lalish more times than I can remember, have asked lots of Yazidi friends, and this is the best understanding of Yazidism I have had to date. Thank you!

@peacock69mcp 3 года назад

Wow! The 7 angels represented by 7 candles also have co-relation with the 7 chakras or energy points in Indian / eastern spirituality. The Ezidi way of life is by far, the most interesting of all in the Middle East.

@shankaranarayanan9730 3 года назад

Tamil God 'MURUGAN' #முருகன் 🙏🙏🙏

@faithlesshound5621 Год назад

Or the Seven Horcruxes of Lord Voldemort (pbuh). Also, don't forget Morgan le Fay, enchantress and sister of King Arthur and great-aunt of St Mungo.

@HeatLure5324 Год назад

@@faithlesshound5621 nice But u forgot that Harry Potter is a movie and Hinduism and ezidie are realities And also that yezidie live in Iran which was home to zoroastrians,a religion originated from Hinduism So chances of yezidie being Hindus r very high Peacock is the vehicle of hindu god MURUGAN

@gourdguru 7 месяцев назад

@@HeatLure5324 Murugan is one of Shiva's offspring, brother of Ganesh, right? sorry, my indian mythology is pretty rusty.

@himanshunagarwal1019 6 месяцев назад

@@HeatLure5324also peacock is connected with Lord Krishan even Today I Every Lord Krishna temple a sign of peacock is necessary like feathers

@webbess1 3 года назад

There's a large Yazidi community in Lincoln, Nebraska apparently.

@mimisslopez 3 года назад

Yes! I live here and Lincoln is one of the refugee cities for them :)

@annaad2026 3 года назад

Really?omg

@thanuvasistha9074 3 года назад

I'm just so thankful for the existence of your channel...🥺

@paulmelton8101 3 года назад

They could also be incorporating Hinduism. The peacock is a symbol of Lord Krishna and I’ve seen Yazidi iconology with A person riding a peacock who had markings on their foreheads that resemble both Vaisnava and Saivite markings. One of Krishnas sons in their scriptures rides a peacock in battle. The seven seers or Siddhas are used in Hinduism and also represent the planets. Too many similarities!

@kangkankrishnasarmapegu7789 3 года назад

Exactly. Some theorists say when the plates were still moving, the South Indian civilization who were followers of the cult of Skanda or God who rides the peacock dispersed. So most likely they branched off to middle East and developed into modern Yazidism

@erkangreen6182 3 года назад

@relax3576 3 года назад

You are incorrect. Lord krishna not using peacock, it's lord shivas elder son.. Lord muruga or lord karthikeya, yazidis are belivers of lord muruga.., it's a Hinduism.

@wetube8414 3 года назад

Our hindu religion has same similarities on them

@isaacleillhikar4566 2 года назад

Yezidism it seems, are that with the followers of God who didnt folow Moses and Israel as a covenant. The one God was followed before Abraham and the people of Israel. And I think Yezidism comes from that, it predates sumerian pantheons. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N2av-xdtMwY.html I'd love it if you came to chat on my channel.

@milosivanovic1141 3 года назад

Great video as usually. Really enjoying your content. You made me love religious topics. Thanks and keep up the great work.

@marcelo90z 3 года назад

Your videos are such a great resource. I wish that, when I finally become a teacher, I can use some of them as complement for my future history lessons, even though I will have to translate them to portuguese because I live in Brazil. You're an inspiration to me become a history teacher due to your professionalism in the religion studies subject.

@juditsivo309 3 года назад

Very interesting, I know Eszter personally, happy to see her contribution to this subject. Congratulations to both of you !

@Kieran_McNally 3 года назад

Excellent video. Informative and very thought-provoking. Thanks for all the effort you put into this.

@rachelselima2609 3 года назад

This is an amazingly informative video! Thank you so much for uploading this!

@smiedranokatirova5987 3 года назад

Thxx for this video All love to all the native Mesopotamian Iraqi Yezidis

@sero6976 3 года назад

We Yezidis are Kurdish

@s.s.a8741 3 года назад

@@sero6976 one day an independent Kurdistan will definitely happen 🇹🇯

@AlindFc 3 года назад

Love 💓 Thanks brother

@onlylonely455 3 года назад

@@sero6976 No Eizidy never says we are kurdish they say we are just Eizidy

@sero6976 3 года назад

@@onlylonely455 Ezidis are Kurdish and most Ezidis consider themselves so

@myamyone 3 года назад

Thank you for publishing current and accurate information on religion and religious history without judgment or fear-mongering.

@shakeelmohamed7962 3 года назад

Melek Taus closely resembles lord Murugan the tamil god of war Do anyone noticed the resemblance

@akhilkartha 3 года назад

Well peacock is the Devine ride of Lord Murugan, not murugan himself. Modern Yazidism seems to be a hybrid of some ancient Pagan or Animist religion and Islam.

@peterparker-pl8wt 3 года назад

Yes, heard that they are Hindus and Murugan is their God. Recently group of Yazadis went to India and did prayers

@karthikdon5 3 года назад

Yup true it's our Lord Murugan of Tamils

@AdamSahr-cj4kf 3 года назад

That confirms the folkloric nature of Yazidism !!!

@karthikdon5 3 года назад

@Baby Sama 48 Nope you are wrong

@ndm0227 3 года назад

Your comments on syncretism are brilliant, thank you for being so eloquent. ✌️

@locklear2478 3 года назад

I’m a psychology major who was just going to get a masters in counseling eventually. My school offered Religious Studies eventually so I dual majored. Now I’m looking at clinical psych PhD programs with a focus on Psychology of Religion. You give me a lot inspiration for a career.

@claralabreck5979 2 года назад

Love your channel! I have always had an interest in religions and your videos fill that interest in a thorough yet understandable way! Keep up the good work!

@Janine.Najarian Год назад

They're decent people and they deserve respect. Period 🇦🇲🤝❤️☀️🤍

@Janine.Najarian Год назад

Also there is no Kurdistan just occupied Assyria and Western Armenia 😜💙🤍❤️🇦🇲

@hazim2320 Год назад

@@Janine.Najarian go cry 😜😜😜😜😜😜

@Berxwedan. 7 месяцев назад

Thanks ❤☀️✌🏼

@sipanaskar14 7 месяцев назад

We Ezidis love our Armenian brothers ❤️

@ellaartenstein853 7 месяцев назад

@@Janine.Najarian Kurdistan is real and there nothing you can do about it :)

@atomicwoodpecker0123 3 года назад

Hey Andrew, you're an inspiration to me as a Junior in highschool who plans to go into religious studies. Do you have any tips on how to get in and what to study beforehand? Is religious studies a viable career option/in demand?

@kylestevensanders 3 года назад

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

@elfarlaur 3 года назад

Religious studies isn't in high demand per se, but any job which involves interacting with people of various backgrounds will benefit from a degree in it. In general, I advise people to study what makes them happy and usually they will be able to do something with it if they are willing to work hard. Studying something you love will make it feel less difficult when trying to find or create a career. But if you're looking for an easy way to make money, you're looking in the wrong place.

@lshulman58 3 года назад

Pursue such study at a public (State) university. Private colleges tend to have a historical connection to some Christian denomination. May have very strong theology studies but weak when it comes to a comprehensive and general study of religion or focus on non Christian religion. I would recommend Indiana University (Bloomington), that is where I did my graduate work in Religious Studies. Well rounded and balanced offerings.

@atomicwoodpecker0123 3 года назад

@Guska Blanco His website says his name is Andrew though?

@mchevre 3 года назад

@@atomicwoodpecker0123 It was a joke. He looks a bit like a younger version of comedian and TV show host John Oliver.

@roland4877 3 года назад

I spent my second deployment at Sinjar and on Sinjar Mountain. I always took interest in their culture. I wish there was more information on the old temple on Sinjar peek. Thank you

@hardrock6r Год назад

I remember that temple very well! I spent a chunk of time there in OIF 1.

@lmao5070 7 месяцев назад

The temple is in UNESCO right because it turned out to be 4000 years old. But as a Yazidi I don't believe that it will exist for long. In the past we used to hide so others wouldn't know of our existence and that's how we protected ourselves and our temples from outsiders. But now because everyone knows the place of the temple they might go and b0mb it. They do it all the time. My dad died in a suicide bombing and one day someone also bombed himself in the middle of our village without any reason and that was even before is!s existed.

@markservice8735 3 года назад

Happy to have found this channel.

@funkyskitchen 3 года назад

I have to say, as a lay student of comparative religion, I'm impressed by the content of yours that I have seen. Although there are a lot of things in videos I've seen, but this was pretty deep into a new subject without being too technical. If you ever need help with your research, I'd be more than happy to help you.

@hungjury7482 3 года назад

Can you do Bahai'ism? Or Druze? Or maybe even lesser-known groups like the Carmelites or Dönmeh

@johnprice3593 3 года назад

Druze are too complicated to explain honestly, not to doubt him, but it'll create too much misinformation.

@atherkhan646 3 года назад

Druze episode will be very interesting. Druze and Bahai both seems to attempt to unify abrahamic religion. but lets see.

@watcherwlc53 3 года назад

@@johnprice3593 if he could explain this one, my bet is he could do a good job

@starfthegreat 3 года назад

Alawites are an interesting bunch also

@Miatpi 3 года назад

I wouldn't say Christianity did "borrow" the Hebrew writings or practices though, as it really is an offshoot/continuation of jewism. Jesus, the apostles and all early Christians were all Jews and considered themselves to be such as well.

@ramo4207 3 года назад

Don’t think anyone rejects the idea that Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism

@AC-mp7cx 3 года назад

@@ramo4207 its an offshoot but has very very different theological principles

@miguelatkinson 9 месяцев назад

@@lets_wrapitupIslam did not always exist

@jaspalsingh150 3 года назад

it is sad that Yazidis have faced so much persecution.

@biggusmunkusthegreat 3 года назад

This was incredibly well formatted. I'm atheist and not at all a religious academic, and just came across Yazidi religion earlier today per happenstance, and decided to search it up here. Earned a sub for sure.

@ethanomcbride 3 года назад

I cannot express how grateful I am that you took the time to make this video. When I wrote my analysis of crimes against humanity committed by ISIL I struggled to adequately explain the group to my fellow IR students largely because they had no cultural touchstones to help them understand Yazidi faith and people. The background info presented here has really helped me make sense of Yazidi faith and culture

@josephsmith2682 3 года назад

Thank you for this video! I love learning about different religions, and it's so hard to find information about some of them, Yazidis included. I would be super interested in a video about the Alawites if you're looking for topics.

@silaslackey7966 3 года назад

Thank you for including bibliographies in each video

@brandonmcleod9182 3 года назад

Hey ReligionForBreakfast I just want to say that I'm a big fan of your channel. Keep up the good work!

@mardukdavid3222 3 года назад

Yazidhi Ya mean South in Tamil Zidhi is deformation of Sidha > Sidhi > Zidhi mean knowledgeable person. Yazhidi mean Knowledgeable Southerner - Siva,a king who lived 20000 years ago and become king and later became God ( buried in earthen pot ) after obtaining snake power called Kundalini. TausMalek(Tava Melon) is Murugan a king who escaped the big flood 11000 years ago was a Siva follower . He too became God after obtaining Snake power. He is known as war God and always portrayed wuth symbol of fighting animals Peacock,Cockerel & Ram. Murugan created 7 fictional female deities and made each of them ruler of the 7 planets which were then known to mankind.They deities are generally known as Amman in Tamil.Murugan is also known Amun in ancient Egypt .

@thilagakumar3 3 года назад

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@generalisimo1 3 года назад

When I was in Syria the Kurds that spoke English viewed them more or less as a type of Islamic-Buddhism. It makes sense to me now with the various beliefs of reincarnation and the Sufi connection.

@LS-ql4wp 3 года назад

One can read about ancient hindu temples. The temple shape similarity. Use of peacock lamps in India. Concept of avatar is common in both Concept of atma i.e portion of divine in soil

@hilmyahmed6446 2 года назад

Thank you for taking the effort to present such an excellent video.

@israfeltheinstramentalist_3715 Год назад

Love your videos, man! Keep up the good work.

@yourhandsomestep-dad2669 3 года назад

Your videos have inspired me to have a more in depth understanding of my own faith (Christianity) and the faiths of others. Your videos are very informative and they are always worth the view.

@mnichols1979 3 года назад

You'll find all "religions" are cults. Some are just socially accepted.

@Tenebrio-Morio 2 года назад

@@mnichols1979 refer to religion for breakfast's video on cults.

@Adam-gx1ml 3 года назад

Awesome as always, genuinely some of my favourite content on this site. Any plans to do a video on the Druze?

@republiccooper 3 года назад

This would be wonderful. I hope he does.

@majidanvi8674 3 года назад

Druse same yazid no so different but yzadi live in iraq and druza live in Lubnan

@gustavoluiz1000 3 года назад

I never heard about it before. Thank you for the great content!

@Merrymangos 3 года назад

Thankyou, I love finding out about different religions, very well done

@me0101001000 3 года назад

Today, RU-vid Recommended was a good boy I just found a gem!

@rankingresearchdata 7 месяцев назад

Love yazidi brothers from india ❤️🇮🇳. They are looking like North Indian and their temple architecture is totally looking like Hindu temples in Indian Village also that peacock 🦚 sign similar to Hinduism.

@Peter-ci1zw 2 года назад

These videos are bloody great, good work my dude

@dickcole5628 Год назад

A very good presentation I've now subscribed Cheers keep up the good work

@michaelearendil6843 3 года назад

What a fascinating, informative exploration of the Yazidi religion! It reminds me of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. Many thanks for the education and for your clear explanations.

@simko28 11 месяцев назад

Yazidi to me as an atheist Kurdish man is the roots of kurdishness , all Kurdish cultural elements along history preserved in that community, suck as tolerance, house hold rules , even looks , they didn’t mix up with other nations and empires came and go so look wise they are what pure Kurdish ethnic looked like 3400 years ago,

@lmao5070 7 месяцев назад

First kurd who accepted the fact. Although I'm also an atheist but I'm still a ezidy and will not leave my group. If you understand the meaning of the words ezdi and khude in Kurdish you will understand what you believed in and why the kurds still use the name khuda. Ezdi or Ezda is made up of two word. Ez meaning Me and das meaning give or created and khu meaning himself and da meaning give. The meaning is god is the self given while he gave us or created us. Every time we call ourselves ezidi we are just saying created us (we are the creation of god). It has no deep meaning though because I really don't believe in god.

@mr.random369 6 месяцев назад

In Hinduism we also have 7 angel but for us they are 7 priest created by creator bhrama... The 7 priest were made the creator to create and manage all his creation... Before this 7 priest there were 4 priest who refused to help the creator...

@schmitzfrance 3 года назад

Brilliant. Thank you for your time and efforts.

@edwardaugustus9680 3 года назад

Excellent video, would love to see a video about Yarsanism and the theory that they are a sibling religion of the Yazidi religion. A video about what the Alawites believe would be good as well as most descriptions online say that Alawites don't like talking to outsiders about it..

@kesharkhadkapunwar2029 3 года назад

🚩Hail mother Sri Bhavani 🚩🚩🚩 👏 🌹🌹🙏 🇳🇵Love from Nepal !!!

@Javastackoo7 3 года назад

Jai Maa 🙏🙏

@kesharkhadkapunwar2029 3 года назад

@Arindam Chakraborty 🇳🇵🇮🇳 👏🌹🙏

@parulrajwanshi3282 3 года назад

I LOVE your channel, and your videos. They are very well balanced, dispel any truly wrong assumptions while also emphasising true key features of any religion you discuss, and your research is so credible and I as a viewer am able to see your true effort behind all your videos and their researches. Kudos! And glad I found this channel as a religio-curious person :)

@sisyphusvasilias3943 3 года назад

This video is what makes youtube great. Such an important valuable lecture than Im so happy to have found. Shame on YT for actively suppressing such positive and beneficial work.

@abhi565b 3 года назад

Seven angles are similar to saptrishis or the seven sages to whome Shiva taught the knowledge of yoga to spread throughout the world. This may be a connection.

@nationalistthug4234 3 года назад

It's sapta kanniga'seven Angels worshipping lord Muruga in Tamil Nadu. I have been to such temples in TN. It is just identical to what is worshipped by yazidis. Peacock, seven Angels etc.

@abhi565b 3 года назад

@@nationalistthug4234 ya this may be a connection. But how this form of worship reached yazidis is still a question

@izzathturak8463 3 года назад

Hindu concept only in India 🇮🇳 😂

@abhi565b 3 года назад

@@izzathturak8463 ohh that's why "karma" and "yoga" has become an English word now!!Even their is an international yoga day on 21st June designated by UN. And many western people have started believing in reincarnation concept and reject one life concept of Abrahamic religions!!Grow up buddy and follow international spiritual giants of India such as sadguru, Osho etc

@dineshpadhi9421 3 года назад

@@izzathturak8463 yeah there will be judgement day 👍😂😂

@WanderingWaystrel 3 года назад

The portion about focusing more on identity and practice than “correct belief” really spoke to me. As a Jewish person, I’ve always found my religion to be similar, and found it odd when Christians focused so much on the exact details of the stories in the Torah and not at all on the cultural connection and understanding of your ancestors you get from studying the torah that I felt were what was actually important about my religion

@lmao5070 7 месяцев назад

That is because we don't believe that other people from other religion won't go to heaven or reincarnated in a good life after this life. Most important thing is to help others and never disrespect god and always pray to him. We are not really that religious but to helping others is the most important thing in life. My family smuggled alot Jewish people out of iraq when the arabs got crazy in Iraq for no reason.

@anujoseph9229 7 месяцев назад

@@lmao5070u really great people. It doesn't matter which religion u are important thing how good we are and our contribution to the world. I wish u a prosperous and peaceful life. From Kerala India

@iammozu3 6 месяцев назад

My close friend in Germany is Ezidi and I am Japanese... we met though work. I've not dared to ask what she and her husband had gone through in Iraq before moving to Germany. Having to survive through such deep collective trauma is truly horrendous and heartbreaking. I pray for them. Thank you so much for putting together this thoughtful presentation!!!

@taha2010ification 3 года назад

Awesome video, thank you!

@satyajitkanjilal3674 3 года назад

What you missed out is that it is mostly Hindu belief that permeates the Kurdish religion! The concept of rebirth- praying towards the sun, and the peacock too is sacred bird and national bird of India and so on !!

@baneofbanes 3 года назад

Correlation doesn’t mean causation.

@satyajitkanjilal3674 3 года назад

Hunter Smith No it does not! The author tried to correlate various thought process to the Kurdish thought process, I felt that Indian thought may have also been an influence too! Causation would imply 1-1 relationship! Surely that it not the case !

@Emotionengne 3 года назад

I figured out who they really are. They’re Humans.

@aitbenhammoumohand-salah4042 3 года назад

@Not Needed Africans are humans too. But I really curious to know why you say they aren't ?

@danielamin 3 года назад

I first came across yazidism in Alan Moore's Top 10, where one of the superhero cops is a Yazidi named "King Peacock". That must have been 20 years ago. I was super curious to learn more but it was difficult to find information online at the time. Really cool to see this video now.

@chrish.7965 3 года назад

Thank you for this interesting and informative video.

@ArkadiBolschek 3 года назад

If I remember correctly (speaking from memory as I haven't been able to find the source) Yazidi tradition also has a story in which all the angels bow before the newly created Adam except for Melek Tawus; when God asks him why he isn't bowing, Melek Tawus replies "because You told us earlier to bow to no creature but You", then God rewards him by elevating him above the rest of the angels. A similar story exists in the Muslim and Judeo-christian traditions, but in that one it's Satan/Eblis who won't bow to Adam, and he is _punished_ for it, not rewarded. All in all, I guess it's not surprising that people took the Yazidis for devil worshippers...

@tstarr8314 3 года назад

Technically Iblis wasn't punished for not bowing to Adam. Iblis had been given special permissions from God such as interacting with the angels, which other djinn were not permitted to do, because he was loved by God. Then he disobeyed God's command, questioned God's decision to create Adam essentially telling God He had made a mistake, and declared himself to be better than Adam because he was made from fire while man was made from clay. He put his love for himself over his love for God. In Islam it is said that anyone with an ounce of arrogance in their heart will not enter Paradise, and it sounds like Iblis had pounds of it.

@jehielhernandez8152 3 года назад

Uhmm Christian tradition has no beliefs such as Satan and other Angels getting commanded to bow to Adam. I think Islam and maybe Judaism have such beliefs, but certainly not Christianity

@ArkadiBolschek 3 года назад

@@jehielhernandez8152 I'll have to check up on that! Edited my original comment just to be on the safe side.

@data4pass 3 года назад

Actually, the idea of Satan/Iblis being praiseworthy for refusing to prostrate to Adam actually existed among some extreme (from an orthodox Sunni point of view) Sufi figures, such as Mansur al-Hallaj. I wonder if his ideas somehow seeped to Sheikh Adi's thought (and thus Yezidis).

@lmao5070 7 месяцев назад

@@data4pass To be honest as a yezidy I heard of this story about 5 years ago. None of our elders or relatives know of it. It's pretty made up by the people in lalish like the banning of pork even though there is no teaching in yezidy religion of banning pork. The religious group which are the Shaikh were directly thought by sheikh adi in lalish. So that would make sense.

@pepsicherry6389 6 месяцев назад

It's mind blowing that most kurds today still accept Islam as their religion. Kurds used to be yazidis till mohammads follower converted kurds to Islam by sword

@blueskybruno Год назад

These videos are so important, they are also timeless, people however many years AFTER you posted this need to see it! Fantastic work!

@jeeva2350 3 года назад

our Tamil God Murugan's vehicle is peacock , Trident in his hand, triangle flag , structure of the temple, and the words weda(vedam in Tamil means ancient religious book (gospel) Adi means ancient in Tamil ( one of the Lord Murugan's name is Adikesavan) .... Lord Murugan's temples are everywhere in Tamil Nadu , especially six big ancient temples called as ( Arupadai veedu),. Please come to southern India (Tamil Nadu), continue your research in all aspects associated with yazidis ( practices.... culture....and ....so on) , certainly you may reach a conclusion , or a NEW BIGINING....all the best bro.....

@RastafarianPilgrim 3 года назад

The qewwals remind me of the griots of Africa, living libraries of myth and legend.

@JM-vj7we 3 года назад

Yes...... i don’t understand people who seek out knowledge of other people or their religions but obviously are so bias that their ignorance is profound.

@shashwatsinha2704 3 года назад

The practices and architecture look too much like Hinduism. Edit: Also the caste system.

@shashwatsinha2704 3 года назад

@shaz I mean, Monotheism is not outside the realm of Hinduism.

@coe3408 3 года назад

I have read some of claims of a kind of connection, maybe because both practice ancient Indo-European religions

@adnankhalid8611 3 года назад

Dream on.

@hardgamer5375 3 года назад

Well not only that the believes like 7 Angels also similar with Hindu 7 Sages.

@koolar1528 3 года назад

Not at all. This yezide Temple first constructed in 15th century and you can find Simular christian church build Same in iran regiona. Only in north india the top part is build simple. Nobody can stand near magnificant temple bildings like southindian tamils.

@editorrbr2107 Год назад

This was fascinating. Thank you.

@barbaraolson600 3 года назад

Thank you again ! So many religions, lots to study.

@T.Thevar 3 года назад

Sound like a very peaceful belief system, minding their own business and not trying to expand. As a Hindu I find some striking similarity. The most prominent is the concept of 1) *Rebirth* by soul leaving the body after death and taking new birth in a new body based on deeds of present life(karma) This is the foundation of Hindu Belief system. 2) 7 angels or divine beings governing humanity, we call them SaptaRishis 7 divine beings born out of Bhrama. 3) praying facing the sun. Etc.

@pksitaraman9152 3 года назад

In Tamilnadu there is suptha kannigai mean 7 Angels and prayed. you need to research with Hindu culture

@thilagakumar3 3 года назад

Plz search in Tamil ppl . u can find 7 Angeles, peacock , & peacock lamp, muruga

@justindc5362 2 года назад

i love this guy he's very respectful to other people and challenges those that negatively misinterpret cultures and religions

@akirubamiru6700 3 года назад

Thank you for clarifying for us a community that was unknown to us.

@kidzu209 3 года назад

best explained, more than religion was interested to know about a civilization which co exists with us, thanks for your efforts.

@rosswebster7877 3 года назад

Another great video as always RFB! I’ve long been interested in the minority Abrahamic and Proto-Abrahamic religions of the Middle East.

@parrotraiser6541 3 года назад

Thank you for the information. The story sbout grain is a interesting, given the location in the "Fertile Crescent", where grain cultivation may have originated.

@juiceytee Год назад

Excellent ❤ I’d love a deeper dive too

@vixendoe2545 3 года назад

This iis very interesting. The peacock was also seen as a personification of God in Celtic Christianity.

@pirbird14 3 года назад

Could you expand on this point? I've never heard of this aspect of Celtic belief.

@vixendoe2545 3 года назад

@@pirbird14 In the Illustrated Book of Kells, the Four Gospels there are many illustrations of animals. The peacock is one. Augustine even said the peacock could represent the Christ resurrected, as it's flesh does not corrupt as readily as that of other animals. There is a book called Reading the Bible the Celtic Way, the Peacock's Tail Feathers.

@pirbird14 3 года назад

@@vixendoe2545 Thank you!

@vixendoe2545 3 года назад

You are so very welcome!

@watcherwlc53 3 года назад

there's also the use of the peacock as a Christian symbol in medieval Christianity

@ABird971 3 года назад

Great video! Germany here and I can report that the Yazidi people are very respectable people. Even the Kurdish people (from Iraq) who are Muslims are very respectable people. The notion that all Kurds were Yazidi before Mohammed came around seems to be standard amongst Yazidis. Also consider the "seven Spirits before the throne of God" in the christian book of Revelations. Again! Great video, very much appreciated.