Isya Joseph

“ God finishes his work in seven days—Sunday to Saturday. In each day he creates a king (melek) . Melek Ṭâ’ûs, who is created on Sunday, is made chief of all. After that Fahr-ad-Dîn creates the planets, man, and animals. ”

“ In the Preface the Šeiḫ says that he existed with Melek Tâ’ûs before the creation of the world, and that he was sent by his god Tâ’ûs to instruct the Yezidi sect in truth. In the first chapter he asserts his omnipresence and omnipotence; in the second he claims to have power to reward those who obey him and to punish those who disobey him; in the third he declares that he possesses the treasures of the earth ”

“ The Yezidis, frequently called “Devil-Worshippers,” are a small and obscure religious sect, numbering about 200,000. [3] They are scattered over a belt of territory three hundred miles wide, extending in length from the neighborhood of Aleppo in northern Syria to the Caucasus in southern Russia. The mass of them, however, are to be found in the mountains of northern and central Kurdistan and among the Sinjar Hills of Northern Mesopotamia.
By reason of their mysterious religion, the Devil-Worshipers have been an object of interest and investigation for several generations. ”