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Yazidi shrine of Mame Reshan, partially destroyed by ISIL, in the Sinjar Mountains. Yazidis believe in one God, to whom they refer as Xwedê, Xwedawend, Êzdan, and Pedsha ('King'), and, less commonly, Ellah and Heq. [2] [8] [9] [5] [15] According to some Yazidi hymns (known as Qewls), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls.
This is a list of holy figures (Kurdish: Xudan, Xas, Babçak, Mêr) in Yazidism. [1]There are a total of 365 Yazidi holy figures venerated by Yazidis. [2] Many Yazidi tribes and lineages are named after Yazidi holy figures and there are many temples and shrines built in their honor.
There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranic ethnic group. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is monotheistic in nature, having roots in a pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith .
There was a wave of Kurdish conversion to Christianity after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Most Kurdish converts to Christianity in the Post-Soviet states were from a Yazidi background. [32] In Armenia, around 3,600 Yazidis converted to Christianity. [33] Yazidi converts to Christianity were mistreated by the Yazidi community. [34]
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The location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith and considered the holiest of Yazidi temples. [2] Sharfadin temple: Sinjar, Iraq: 800 year old temple considered by Yazidis as one of the holiest places on earth. [3] Dedicated to Sherfedin. Chel Mera (Chermera) or "40 Men" Temple: Mount Sinjar, Iraq
He acknowledged that if many Yazidis stay away from Sinjar, other groups will likely populate their areas. That saddens him, he said, “but there’s nothing I can do.”
19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...