mirrorbird (00:10:04)
i do remember growing up with a very old Arabian Nights where i knew that zoroastrians were crazy fire people. maybe they are! haha! but errm maybe christians are crazy fish people.

Oldchap (00:09:58)
Syncretic is actually how many scholars have described Yazidism over the decades because it has absorbed a lot of material from various traditions into its religious framework

mirrorbird (00:09:08)
"syncretic" is how dictionaries shy away from saying anything

mirrorbird (00:08:56)
of local beliefs and Islamic doctrine.

Oldchap (00:08:54)
gotcha

mirrorbird (00:08:51)
what does modern Wiktionary say? Noun: Izedi (plural Izedis) -- Alternative form of Yazidi => member of a Kurdish-speaking people of northern Iraq, Armenia and Caucasus, whose religion is Yazidism => The religion of Yazidis, a highly syncretic complex

Oldchap (00:08:41)
And the rebellion began as pride. So the first sin was not Adam and Eve eating the fruit in the garden; the first sin was the hubris of Lucifer, which transformed him into Satan.

mirrorbird (00:08:40)
"IZEDI, noun. One of an Oriental religious sect which worships Satan or the Devil." -- i can't place it, i suspect it may have been Webster, but i only "studied" 1913 version and some were no doubt borrowed from earlier one (late 1800s).

Oldchap (00:08:03)
The idea was that Lucifer was the chief angel (goes by other names in those books--"Lucifer" is a bad Latin translation of a verse in Isaiah that mentions the "light bringer"), but this chief angel fell after rebelling against God

Oldchap (00:07:14)
Orthodox church does have them in its canon)

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