Throne Of The Peacock Angel

Author : Salim Khalid
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665543264
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Throne of the Peacock Angel written by Salim Khalid and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mysterious radiance slowly developed in the dark alley, growing in intensity, gradually taking the form of an alluring full-bodied woman with ghostly braided locks, startling everyone, including Worthy Deen. The specter was as translucent and elusive as a wisp of fog, sparkling with eldritch power. Her fluttering robes gave the appearance of soft, fuzzy, white light. Her features were indistinct but captivating, and her bare, ghostly feet spurned the filth of the walkway over which she floated, eerily peering at the gathering.” Throne of the Peacock Angel is a twisted and captivating tale of mystery, murder, mysticism and betrayal, in which the protagonist, Worthy Deen, is reluctantly entangled. Worthy Deen is a successful, yet reclusive business owner in New Orleans whose life is capsized by influential and ruthless forces. Additionally, Worthy carries a terrible and haunting secret that grants him paranormal abilities while exacting a horrific toll. Join Worthy Deen as he battles with life and limb to unravel the candlelit mysteries and arcane secrets of New Orleans, Charleston and the timeless Sea Islands of the South Carolina coast. CAVEAT LECTOR!

Author : Peter Lamborn Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644114135
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peacock Angel written by Peter Lamborn Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Explains how the Yezidis worship Melek Ta’us, the Peacock Angel, an enigmatic figure often identified as “the devil” or Satan, yet who has been redeemed by God to rule a world of beauty and spiritual realization • Examines Yezidi antinomian doctrines of opposition, their cosmogony, their magical lore and taboos, the role of angels, ritual, and symbology, and how the Yezidi faith relates to other occult traditions such as alchemy • Presents the first English translation of the poetry of Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiya, venerated by the Yezidis as Sultan Ezi The Yezidis are an ancient people who live in the mountainous regions on the borders of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. This secretive culture worships Melek Ta’us, the Peacock Angel, an enigmatic figure often identified as “the devil” or Satan, hence the sect is known as devil-worshippers and has long been persecuted. Presenting a study of the interior, esoteric dimensions of Yezidism, Peter Lamborn Wilson examines the sect’s antinomian doctrines of opposition, its magical lore and taboos, and its relation to other occult traditions such as alchemy. He explains how the historical founder of this sect was a Sufi of Ummayad descent, Sheik Adi ibn Musafir, who settled in this remote region around 1111 AD and found a pre-Islamic sect already settled there. Sheik Adi was so influenced by the original sect that he departed from orthodox Islam, and by the 15th century the sect was known to worship the Peacock Angel, Melek Ta’us, with all its “Satanic” connotations. Revealing the spiritual flowering that occurs in an oral culture, the author examines Yezidi cosmogony, how they are descended from the androgynous Adam--before Eve was created--as well as the role of angels, ritual, alchemy, symbology, and color in Yezidi religion. He also presents the first English translation of the poetry of Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiya, venerated by the Yezidis as Sultan Ezi. Showing the Yezidi sect to be a syncretic faith of pre-Islamic, Zoroastrian, Christian, Pagan, Sufi, and other influences, Wilson reveals how these worshippers of the Peacock Angel do indeed worship “the Devil”--but the devil is not “evil.” God has redeemed him, and he rules a world of beauty and spiritual realization.

Author : Garnik S. Asatrian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317544293
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religion of the Peacock Angel written by Garnik S. Asatrian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the Yezidi people claim their religion - a unique combination of Christian, Islamic, and historical faiths - to be the oldest in the world. Yezidi identity centres on their religion, Sharfadin, which has evolved into a highly complex pantheon of one God with many incarnations, the chief of whom is Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel. The Yezidi faith can be traced to a range of pre-Islamic belief systems, such as Sufism, some extreme Shi'ite sects, Gnosticism and other traditions surviving from the ancient world. This particular formulation has served to unify Yezidi religious identity and ethnicity. Based on extensive fieldwork, 'The Religion of the Peacock Angel' presents the first detailed examination of the Yezidi pantheon. The idea of one God and his chief incarnations is first analysed, then the various 'deity figures,' saints, holy patrons and divinized personalities in the Yezidi belief system are considered in the context of related religious traditions. The study determines the place of all these characters in the system of the Yezidi faith, defining their main functions, features, and genealogies.

Author : Ethel S. Drower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780404164256
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peacock Angel written by Ethel S. Drower and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peacock Angel written by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isya Joseph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.HF/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil Worship written by Isya Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glenn Dale Bridges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478713890
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peacock Angel written by Glenn Dale Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is coming to kill Thane Connally; an angel told him so. The young prison guard, however, remains hesitant to embrace his role in a feud that began long before the scope of human memory. Only after learning more of the truth from Armaros, an earthbound angel from the second fall, does Thane begin to realize there is no choice in the matterhe is now a pawn of prophecy. This education comes at a price though, and time was the cost. For hidden deep below the rock of a mountain, an army is growing. Azazel, brother to Armaros and bane of the ancients, has somehow escaped from his desert purgatory after nearly eight thousand years. Fueled by his thirst for retribution, he is hell bent on propagating a race of giants to spoil the Earth. Only together can Thane and Armaros, along with a small group of improbable allies, hope to thwart the enraged angel and his minions. If left unchecked Azazels madness could unravel the very fabric of humanity and trigger the unbegotten. Blending Jewish folklore, the apocrypha, and oral tradition from the dawn of humankind, The Peacock Angel is a thought-provoking tale of an ordinary young man plunged into extraordinary circumstanceswith the fate of us all lying somewhere in the balance.

Author : Eszter Spät
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yezidis written by Eszter Spät and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed survey of Yezidi culture to appear in English. Little is known about these ancient Kurdish mountain people, considered one of the oldest ethnicities in the Middle East, often unjustly derided as "devil-worshippers."

Author : Birgül Açikyildiz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857720619
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yezidis written by Birgül Açikyildiz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yezidism is a fascinating part of the rich cultural mosaic of the Middle East. The Yezidi faith emerged for the first time in the twelfth century in the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq. The religion, which has become notorious for its associations with 'devil worship', is in fact an intricate syncretic system of belief, incorporating elements from proto-Indo-European religions, early Iranian faiths like Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, Sufism and regional paganism like Mithraism. Birgul Acikyildiz here offers a comprehensive appraisal of Yezidi religion, society and culture. Written without presupposing any prior knowledge about Yezidism, and in an accessible and readable style, her book examines Yezidis not only from a religious point of view but as a historical and social phenomenon. She throws light on the origins of Yezidism, and charts its development and changing fortunes - from its beginnings to the present- as part of the general history of the Kurds. Her book is the first to place Yezidism in its complete geographical setting in Northern Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Transcaucasia. The author describes the Yezidi belief system (which considers Tawusi Melek - the 'Peacock Angel' - to be ruler of the earth) and its religious practices and observances, analysing the most important facets of Yezidi religious art and architecture (including funerary monuments and zoomorphic tombstones) and their relationship to their neighbours throughout the Middle East. Acikyildiz also explores the often misunderstood connections between Yezidism and the Satan/Sheitan of Christian and Muslim tradition. Richly illustrated, with accompanying maps, photographs and illustrations, this pioneering book will have strong appeal to all those with an interest in the culture of the Kurds, as well as the wider region.

Author : Judika Illes
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062046098
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Spirits written by Judika Illes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the World of Spirits! The Encyclopedia of Spirits is a comprehensive and entertaining A to Z of spirits from around this world and the next. Within these pages meet love goddesses and disease demons, guardians of children and guardians of cadavers. Discover Celtic goddesses and goddesses of the Kabbalah, female Buddhas, African Powers, Dragon Ladies, White Ladies, Black Madonnas, the Green Man, the Green Fairy, lots and lots of ghosts, djinn, mermaids, fairies, and more. From the beneficent to the mischievous, working with these spirits can bring good fortune, lasting love, health, fertility, revenge, and relief. Discover: The true identities of over one thousand spirits (as well as their likes and dislikes) How to communicate with specific spirits for your own benefit How to recognize these spirits when they manifest themselves The mythological and historical events associated with specific spirits The colors, days, numbers, and astrological signs associated with specific spirits The Encyclopedia of Spirits also provides an overview of the role of spirit communication throughout history and a general guide to working with spirits. No matter what your life's problems or desires, this book can guide you to the right spirits who can help fulfill your dreams. For the spiritual adept, the amateur, or the simply curious, the Encyclopedia of Spirits will inform, inspire, and delight.