Many Religions is becoming endangered; one of these religions Yezidis. Yezidis is monotheist groups, most of the Yazidis live in Syria, Iraq, and northern Turkey, Armenia and some of them live in other countries. Today their main spoken language is," 'Kurmanji' Northern Kurdish" (Christine Allison, 2002). They have a different believing’s about how life started on earth and how human race started. During time some people started calling them by the other’s name and they were, “…classified among the ‘unbelievers,’ and have been attacked” ("Christian peacemaker teams in Iraq", 2005). Until today the Yezidis have been hurt from others around them and their followers are decreasing, because they are killed. Also, if a member converts to another …show more content…
religion they cannot go back Yezidi to their religion again. Also, they do not expect others who want to convert to their religion, for these reasons that they are becoming their religion endanger. However, the Yazidis have a rich history, many different beliefs than the main monotheist religions. Also, some of their holy days and festivals that are similar to Judaism, Christianity, Islam and many other religions. HISTORY BACKGROUND To begin, Yazidi is a name that is not known from where it came or the meaning of it.
Some of the reaches suggested Yazidi name comes from the Old Iranian word Yazata which means angel or idol, "while others hold that it derives from the name of the Umayyad" ("The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica", 2015). Yazidi followers say that the meaning of Yazidi is the worship of God that's lost. Yazidis has their own language, which they see as branched from Mesopotamian language family. As a result, many of the historical and geographical factors that affected the heritage of linguistic and intellectual Yezidis, decayed language gradually until it reached a total absence from the community, the languages not spoken today. Secondly, origins of the Yazidis. According to Ghareeb, E., and Dougherty, B. "The sect is an Islamic one descended from supported of the Umayyad caliph Yazid in 686CE" (2004, P.670). They believe that it is a sect of Islam, because Yazidi religion has incorporated some Islamic beliefs with some elements of Zoroastrianism. Thirdly, they have some traditions that it is similar to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, spicily, "Mandaean Gnostic, Jewish, Christian (especially Nestorian), and Muslim (especially Sufi) traditions" (Cherchi, M., Platz, S., & Tuite, K, 1996). For example, Prohibition of some food from Jewish, drinking wine from Christians. While they have of some of the elements, like sacrificing, fasting, and pilgrimage from Islam and they have another …show more content…
element from other faiths. Therefore, the Yazidi are a religion that is unknown from where it came, who started it and when it started, but it has the some of the elements and traditions of other elements from different kind religions. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS Next, Yazidis beliefs' about how the earth and humans were created.
First, That earth was created by God along with seven angles, "the leader of which was Tawsi Melek, the Peacock 'King' or Peacock 'Angel"("International order of gnostic Templars", 2009). "According to some Yezidi informants, God is so good that he has no need of worship, whereas the Peacock Angel is so evil as to require constant appeasement" (Badger, & George P. ,1852, p126). This is one reason why the Yazidis worship the Tawsi Melek. Another reason, when the earth was created it started shaking, "Tawsi Melek was then dispatched to earth to stop the planet’s quaking, as well as to endow it with beauty and abundance" ("International order of gnostic Templars", 2009). The Tawsi Melek to Yezidis is an angle that has saved the earth from earthquake and gave it more beautiful than before. After that the Tawsi Melek travels to the Garden of Eden he meets Adam "The first human had been created without a soul, so Tawsi Melek blew the breath of life into him"("International order of gnostic Templars", 2009). Then Eve was created, but according Yazidis before having intercourse the couple had a kind of competition between them who can have independent offspring of the other. Both Adam and Eve their descendants were stored in a closed jar and then it was opened after nine months. Eve opened her jar and found to be full of insects, while inside Adam's jar was a beautiful baby boy and girl. They grew up and married
and had offspring who are Yazidis today. Thus, the Yazidis consider themselves descendants of Adam not Eve. "The Yazīdī religious center and object of the annual pilgrimage is the tomb of Sheikh ʿAdī, in the town of Lālish, Iraq"("The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica", 2015). This the only worship place for Yazidi in the world. Also Yazidi's belief that soil and water around the Sheikh 'Adi Tomb in Iraq is used for healing their illnesses and to purify their souls.. For these reasons, religious beliefs to the Yazidi's are secret spicily their tomb because it is their only tomb. HOLYDAYS AND FESTIVAL Finally, Yazidis have many holydays and festivals. First, one of the most important Yazidis holyday 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 Tawsi 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.(" International order of gnostic Templars", 2009, the Yazidi New Year, per1). During that holyday they make colored eggs,
In placing humankind within this world, it is the intent of God that humans enjoy this world and flourish in it through a continuing relationship with Him. And God said, “Let us make a human in our image, by our likeness, to hold sway over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the heavens and the cattle and the wild beasts and all the crawling things that crawl upon the earth” (Genesis 158-159). Therefore, He creates a human in His image, the image of God. God did not want man to be alone and decides to fashion a companion from the rib of man. “And the Lord God cast a deep slumber on the human, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs and closed over the flesh where it had been, and the Lord God built the rib He had taken from the human into a woman” (Genesis 160). Upon learning of this the human said, “This one at last, bone of my bones / and flesh of my flesh, / This one shall be called Woman, / for from man was this one taken” (Genesis 160). Human beings occupy center stage in this account of the world’s origin, but are held in low regard in Mesopotamian and Greek creation stories. In Enuma Elish, Marduk spoke to Ea of his idea for the creation of humankind, but Ea was the actual creator who devised how it should come about. In the Sixth Tablet, Marduk says, “My blood will I take and bone will I fashion / I will make man, that man may… / I will create man who shall
Myths – as they are known to most of the world – give insight into the pasts of various countries and religions as the people saw them. They have been used to explain phenomenons in nature or describe the tales of courageous and important men and women throughout history. Creation myths in particular define how the Earth itself was created, along with the universe, heavens, hell, people, and creatures that exist today. Genesis of Christian mythology, for instance, tells the story of how the single deity God spoke and formed everything from day and night to man and woman. Various African creation myths, such as with the Yoruba, explain the creation of the Earth through at least a couple gods working together and all life sprouting from a seed. But all share a common themes, such as a form of chaos or nothingness before life is created. Joseph Campbell notes that “... the idea of an absolute ontological distinction between God and man – or between gods and men, divinity and nature - first became an important social and psychological force in the near East, specifically Akkad, in the period of the first Semetic Kings, c. 2500 B.C.,” showing another similar trait – a god or set of gods exists to create in each story (626). Joseph Campbell makes a comparison of how both Genesis and the Book of the Dead of Egypt share the same idea of their bodies belonging to their god in some way, or being reabsorbed into them at death (630-631). Others, like the Japanese and Iroquois creation myths, claim the Earth was once covered entirely of water before land was formed. Adam and Eve of Genesis and Izanagi and sister Izanami of Shintoism provide examples of myths that share both a passive and active pair of people who eventually create the Earth's population. In any case, certain popular creation myths, some closely tied to prominent religions, share more common characteristics than others. An entire sub-study, called comparative mythology, gives insight into this subject.
There are several different stories and theories as to how the Earth was created. Iroquois is a story of how a sky woman who disobeyed a single rule, not to touch the roots of the great tree. The Bible is similar a story which countless numbers of people believe, says that God created Adam. To company Adam he created a woman from one of his ribs, Adam named her Eve, she was to become mother of everything living.
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Such was the beginning of creation. Creation continued with the sky and the waters, the Earth and the vegetation, the lights and the animals, and on the sixth day God created man. "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…. So God created humankind in his image." God created Adam. It was Adam who had the first human relation with God. God "put him in the garden of Eden to till and keep it. And the lord God commanded the man, 'you may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.'" This simple command was not to be obeyed, and Adam, Eve and subsequent humanity was banished from Eden.
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From the beginning of the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible, it is evident that the identity of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the West hails from Biblical narratives. Genesis and its two accounts of creation are an essential starting point for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic beliefs. It provides a foundation for devotees of these religions to worship their God as the ultimate creator of the heavens and earth, day and night, sun and moon, all the animals and vegetation that inhabits the world, and human beings. For Jews and Christians, God created the world in six days, taking rest on the seventh day.
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The creation of the earth and all that is within the earth is mysterious, yet miraculous at the same time. Although there are probably hundreds of different accounts, they all seem to be different while almost identical in text. I will be comparing and contrasting between the Priestly account and the Yahwist account in the book of Genesis. Along with these accounts I will be discussing the key elements in the theology of creation and eco-spirituality in the world and the way they fit into my life.