Yazidi Religion Explained

Watch Dr. Eszter Spät's documentary here!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Y8CXxJEv4 Join my 15-person online seminars here: https://www.speakeasy.com/speaker/andrew-henry Join our Patreon community!: https://patreon.com/religionforbreakfast One-time donations here!: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast Check out my favorite religious studies books: https://www.amazon.com/shop/religionforbreakfast 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." Photo attributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda#/media/File:Naqshe_Rostam_Darafsh_Ordibehesht_93_(35).JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Shrines_of_Sheikh_Adi,_Sheikh_Hassan,_and_Sheikh_Bakr_at_the_Yezidi_holy_site_of_Lalish_in_Kurdistan_Region.jpg Melek Tawus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus#/media/File:Tausi-Malek.png Lalesh pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lalish_panorama.jpg Yazidi Temple in Armenia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jezida_templo_en_aknali%C4%89o.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices