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Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition / Eszter Spät.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious ThoughtPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (580 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781607249986
  • 9781463222024
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  • 290
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- THE YEZIDIS AND LATE ANTIQUE GNOSIS: INTRODUCTION TO ESZTER SPÄT’S LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS IN YEZIDI MYTHOLOGY AND ORAL TRADITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- 3. THE ORIGIN OF THE YEZIDIS AND OF YEZIDI STUDIES -- 4. THE RELIGION OF THE YEZIDIS -- 5. RELIGIOUS ORAL TRADITION AND LITERACY AMONG THE YEZIDIS OF IRAQ -- 6. THE YEZIDI CREATION MYTH OF ADAM -- 7. THE KHIRQE, OR GARMENT OF FAITH -- 8. “THE SONG OF THE COMMONER”: THE MOTIF OF SLEEP AND AWAKENING -- 9. THE ORIGIN MYTH OF THE YEZIDIS – THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER -- 10. THE BIRTH OF PROPHET ISMAIL IN THE YEZIDI “TALE OF IBRAHIM”1069 -- 11. CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE: LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS AND MODERN YEZIDISM -- APPENDIX I: TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDINGS OF THE MYTH OF ADAM AND THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER1168 -- APPENDIX II: YEZIDI HYMNS TRANSLATED BY P. KREYENBROEK -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who practice a highly syncretistic religion based exclusively on oral tradition. Their myths and motifs, besides showing the influence of both Sufism and a pre-Zoroastrian Western Iranian mythology, are related to the religious movements of Late Antiquity, and reveal the vestiges of a common cultural substratum once shared by the people of the region.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- THE YEZIDIS AND LATE ANTIQUE GNOSIS: INTRODUCTION TO ESZTER SPÄT’S LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS IN YEZIDI MYTHOLOGY AND ORAL TRADITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- 3. THE ORIGIN OF THE YEZIDIS AND OF YEZIDI STUDIES -- 4. THE RELIGION OF THE YEZIDIS -- 5. RELIGIOUS ORAL TRADITION AND LITERACY AMONG THE YEZIDIS OF IRAQ -- 6. THE YEZIDI CREATION MYTH OF ADAM -- 7. THE KHIRQE, OR GARMENT OF FAITH -- 8. “THE SONG OF THE COMMONER”: THE MOTIF OF SLEEP AND AWAKENING -- 9. THE ORIGIN MYTH OF THE YEZIDIS – THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER -- 10. THE BIRTH OF PROPHET ISMAIL IN THE YEZIDI “TALE OF IBRAHIM”1069 -- 11. CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE: LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS AND MODERN YEZIDISM -- APPENDIX I: TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDINGS OF THE MYTH OF ADAM AND THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER1168 -- APPENDIX II: YEZIDI HYMNS TRANSLATED BY P. KREYENBROEK -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who practice a highly syncretistic religion based exclusively on oral tradition. Their myths and motifs, besides showing the influence of both Sufism and a pre-Zoroastrian Western Iranian mythology, are related to the religious movements of Late Antiquity, and reveal the vestiges of a common cultural substratum once shared by the people of the region.

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