Yezidis Quotes

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We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope! We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion!
Widad Akreyi
No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
Widad Akreyi
ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING: HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE
Widad Akreyi
SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION: GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS YAZIDI GIRLS!
Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND TELL EVERYONE HOW THEY SPONSOR... THE KILLING OF THE YAZIDI NATION
Widad Akreyi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN
Widad Akreyi
WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!
Widad Akreyi
YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!
Widad Akreyi
There is another reason little is known about ‘Io; the name of this God of the Polynesians was too sacred to be mentioned openly. This was also true of the Israelites’ God, Yahweh. This is why the Israelites also called their God by periphrases, like Elohim (God Almighty) or Adonai (Lord). This is not unusual. The ancient name of the One True God of Aneityum (New Hebrides), Nigeria, the Yezidis (Turkey), the Incas, the Navaho and other ancient cultures also were not openly mentioned.16 The priests of Polynesia were under oath not to tell of the most sacred things, and the penalty for breaking this oath was death. The Polynesian authority, E. Handy, says that it is doubtful that the common folk were even allowed to know the true name of the Supreme Being.17 This was not an unusual situation. In ancient Babylon at one time, the priests were monotheistic and the people were polytheistic as it was in Polynesia.18 This was also the situation with the ancient Chinese, Nigerians, Incas, and other peoples. It is easy then to understand why there is only a vague knowledge of the Supreme God in Hawaii.
Daniel Kikawa (Perpetuated In Righteousness: The Journey of the Hawaiian People from Eden (Kalana I Hauola) to the Present Time (The True God of Hawaiʻi Series))
And the god of Ahab was called Beelzebub. Nowadays we call him Pir Bub.
Peter Lamborn Wilson (Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis)
Leave the train!” More soldiers meet Fez and his loyal companion, “This way,” one shouts, “step into the circle!” Fez glances down, at a large circle scribed into the ground, and walks into the centre with Gnash skittering in behind him, at which point he addresses the soldiers. “Did you know the philosopher Gurdjieff wrote about his encounters with the Yezidis—how he once saw a Yezidi boy distraught, struggling to break out of a circle drawn in the ground by other boys. Try as he might the boy just couldn’t step outside of the circle. The other boys teased and taunted him until Gurdjieff erased part of the circle, whereby the boy was able to escape. Perhaps the philosopher wants us to think carefully about the Yezidis—perhaps you should think carefully about me.” Out of the floor a circular glass wall made of toughened glass shoots up, stopping at a circular lip in the ceiling, trapping them like a ship in a bottle. “A prison—how quaint, never been in a prison before. When do I get my medication?” No one answers, but Fez spies a security camera in the ceiling and stares into its lens. “You think that I think you can’t hear me, but I know that you don’t know I can.” “What’s he on about?” one of the operators asks in the control room. “Something about us hearing him.
J.L. Haynes (Zara Hanson & The Mystery of the Painted Symbol)
Well, the 'origin story' for Malak Tâwus is almost exactly the same as the Muslim myth about Iblis, the djinn they later call Shaytan—but Yezidi revere Malak Tâwus for refusing to submit to Adam, while Muslims believe that Iblis's refusal to submit was what made him fall out of grace with Allah. From our point of view, God praised Malak Tâwus for refusing to serve something made out of dust, because he was made from God's own light; instead of punishing him, God made the Peacock Angel His own representative on earth, telling him to dole out responsibilities, blessings, and bad luck as he saw fit. And we can't question him, because he's beyond good and evil—good and evil are human qualities.
Gemma Files (Experimental Film)
(Onions are sacred to the Yezidis, perhaps because they have many layers and are thus “esoteric.”)
Peter Lamborn Wilson (Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis)
The next paragraphs of Meshaf Resh give details on the procession of sanjaks that need not detain us.
Peter Lamborn Wilson (Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis)
Yezidi kırımlarını anlatırken o koskocaman hüzünlü ceren gözleri kısılıyor, kapanıyor, acı içinde çırpınıyor, sesi kısılıncaya kadar kendinden geçerek konuşuyor, sesi kısılıp çıkmaz olunca da susuyordu. "Fırat," diyordu, "Fırat, günlerce, aylarca insan ölüleriyle doldu da taştı. Fırat suyu kan akıyor baksana. Dicle," diyordu. "Dicle günlerce, aylarca insan ölüleriyle doldu da taştı. Dünyanın bütün kartalları, çöle indiler, çölde insan etine doydular." Birden yüzü ışıyıveriyor, gözlerine sevinç, sevgi doluyor, ağız dolusu gülüyor, sonra susuyor, ardından da patlarcasına konuşuyordu: "Bunlar şeytana, güneşe, toprağa, ateşe tapıyorlarmış. O şeytan ki Allaha başkaldırmış. Kim gördü şeytanı, Allahın huzuruna kim gitti? Bir yandan bakarsan Yezidiler haklı. Vareden ve yaratan ki topraktır, güneştir, sudur, havadır. Yezidiler günde üç kere, bir sabah gün doğarken, bir kez de tam öğleyin, güneş tepedeyken, bir de gün batarken yönlerini güneşe dönerler dualarını okurlar. Yüzyıllardır bu insanlar öldürüldüler, o kadar sürgün edildiler, o kadar işkence gördüler, o kadar aşağılandılar gene de yılmadılar, tükenmediler. Şu insanoğlunda öylesine bir güç var ki tükenmiyor, çürümüyor, ölmüyor, toprak gibi, ışık gibi, su gibi. Ben Yezidi değilim, ama onların direnme güçlerini, insanlıklarını, dostluklarını seviyorum, onların dirençlerine saygı duyuyorum. Onlar adam öldürmezler. Adam öldürenler Yezidilikten çıkarılırlar. Onlar savaşı bir toplu kırım sayarlar. Savaşa katılmamak için direnirler. Yüzyıllardır kan revan içindedirler, durmadan durmadan kanları, seller gibi akmıştır. Ottan başka yiyecek bulamamışlar, ama yürekleri kararmamış, sevinçlerini yitirmemişler, hangi koşul içinde olurlarsa olsunlar, yüce dağların kovuklarında kartallar gibi yaşamışlardır.
Yaşar Kemal (Fırat Suyu Kan Akıyor Baksana (Bir Ada Hikayesi, #1))
***What reasons made you to found the Dragon Rouge? When the idea to found it for the first time in your head appeared?*** It was several reasons, and its a long story so I can’t tell the whole story here, but three reasons were most important: 1) it was a need for a new practical oriented order, 2) it was a need for a new order working with the LHP, Draconian Current and Nightside Tradition, 3) I got the impulse from older draconian magicians both in Sweden and Marocco to found a new magical order based upon a practical oriented version of the LHP, Draconian Current and the Nightside Tradition. ***I`m not sure do I remember well, but somone told this was not your idea, but it was the decision of the secret association derived from Yezidian and Tyfonic traditions? Is it true? Can you say something about that association?*** Yes, you are right. As I said above I got the idea from a secret group of Swedish magicians. I got a lot of magical texts from them and their work was partly based upon the typhonian tradition and there interpretation of yezidism. They claimed that their founder was inititated in a yezidi circle in Kurdistan. Much of their concept reminds me of what you find in the writings of Kenneth Grant and I think they were inspired by him, although they made a lot of new interpretations and inventions. I also recieved small but important magical things on a journey to Marocco in the days when Dragon Rouge was about to be founded, and one of our earliest members was a pupil to a american magician who gave us a lot of unique material about LHP Egyptian magic and dark Egyptian deities. interview - Therion.Metal.Pl and for e-zine Rock4eveR both on 16th of September 2003.
Thomas Karlsson