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Tawsi Melek, the Peacock Angel and Peacock King, is the most import deity of the
Yezidis. But he is not just the possession of the Yezidis, he belongs to the entire world. The
Yezidis believe that they possess the oldest religion on Earth, the primeval faith that
features Tawsi Melek, and that all other traditions are related to them through the Peacock
Angel. They contend that Tawsi Melek is the true creator and ruler of the universe, and
therefore a part of all religious traditions. He does not, however, always manifest within
these diverse traditions as a peacock. Tawsi Melek has taken on many other forms
throughout time.
The Yezidis do not believe that the Peacock Angel is the Supreme God. The Supreme God
created him as an emanation at the beginning of time. He was brought into manifestation in
order to give the invisible, transcendental Supreme God a vehicle with which to create and
administer the universe. Tawsi Melek is thus a tangible, denser form of the infinite Supreme
God. In order to assist Tawsi Melek in this important role, the Supreme Creator also created
six other Great Angels, who were, like the Peacock Angel, emanations of the Supreme God
and not separate from him. When recounting the creation of all Seven Great Angels, the
Yezidis often summarize the emanation process as follows:
Tawsi Melek was the first to emerge from the Light of God in the form of a seven-rayed
rainbow, which is a form he still today continues to manifest within to them (usually as a
rainbow around the Sun). But the Yezidis also claim that Tawsi Melek and the six Great
Angels are collectively the seven colors of the rainbow. Therefore, the six Great Angels
were originally part of Tawsi Melek, the primal rainbow emanation, who bifurcated to
become the rainbows seven colors, which are collectively the Seven Great Angels. Of the
seven colors produced from the primal rainbow, Tawsi Melek became associated with the
color blue, because this is the color of the sky and the heavens, which is the source of all
colors.
Tawsi Melek was, therefore, both the first form of the Supreme God and one of the Seven
Great Angels, which is a cosmic heptad mentioned within many religious traditions. The
Jews, Christians, Persian, Egyptians all have their seven angels and creators. In the
Meshef Re, the Yezidis Black Book, there is one passage that describes the Seven Great
Angels and associates their creation with the seven days of Creation. The text first states
that the Supreme God first created a pearl containing the substance or substratum of the
soon-to-be physical universe, ostensibly referring to the molten mass preceding the Big
Bang championed by modern physics. The Yezidi text then maintains that for forty
thousand years this pearl sat upon a primal bird, which is quite possibly an incipient form
of Tawsi Melek before he divided into the Seven Great Angels. This pearl then exploded (or
became dismantled) to become the physical universe. Then, states the Meshef Re, came
the seven days of creation:
The first day which He (the Supreme God) created was Sunday. On that day He created an
angel whose name was Azrail. This is Melek Taus, who is the greatest of all.
On Monday He created the Angel Dardail, who is Shaikh Hasan.
migrating from the East, specifically Sri Lanka, the island patronized by the Peacock Angel
as the Hindu Murugan or Sanat Kumara.
heads, one for each star of the Pleiades, but he lost one of them and so now he has six.
Thus, more than simply reflecting the Pleiades, Murugan is the Pleiades.
In metaphysics it is believed that our Solar System rotates around the Pleiades, and that the
asterism is a special point of creation for our local galaxy. High frequency energy from a
more refined universe is channeled through the Pleiades, specifically the star Alcyone,
which then encodes it with a specific shape and destiny it will assume in our three
dimensional universe. Because of its unique function of feeding and nurturing our galaxy,
the Maya referred to the Pleiades as the teats of the rattlesnake. In agreement with many
ancient cultures, the Maya maintained that the creator of the universe was a serpent, snake,
or dragon which possessed a septenary nature. They therefore portrayed it with seven
heads, tails, twists to its body, or teats (or all of the above). It was also represented as a
rainbow (as it is among the Yezidis) or as a rainbow serpent (as it is among the Australian
Aborigines) that encoded all energy with the seven colors, tones, etc. The Maya and others
often referred to this septenary serpent as the Son of God who was born at the beginning of
time from the union of the primal male/female principles manifesting as spiraling energy.
From a geometrical perspective, this primal union created not only a spiral but a vesica
pisces, the eye and seed of life, which became the flower of life and then kept
multiplying to become eyes manifest all throughout the universe. These vesica pisces eyes
represent the omniscience of the primal creator, such as Tawsi Melek. They were colored
either green, or blue-green, the middle color that reflected the union of the male/female
principles. Thus, the combination of the blue-green color produced a Son of God in the
form of an all-seeing blue-green dragon (the word dragon is derived from all-seeing), a
dragon-peacock, or simply a many-eyed peacock. He was the blue-green dragon creator of
the Chinese and Quiche Maya, or he was the blue-green peacock of the Yezidis. But
whatever his form, one of his principle homes was the seven stars Pleiades.
a big war was brewing, but that no harm would come on the heads of his people, the
Yezidis, who would emerge from the conflagration unscathed.
Although he is the eternal ruler of Earth, during the Yezidis New Year Tawsi Melek
designates one of the six Great Angels to represent him as ruler for the coming year, so
there is always guidance and protection coming from all the Seven Great Angels.
The Moslems maintain that one of Tawsi Meleks names is Azazel, a name of
Satan.
Truth: The alternate name for Tawsi Melek they refer to is not Azazel, but Aziz, a name
meaning something precious.
The Yezidis honor the goat because it is Satans (Tawsi Meleks) sacred animal.
Truth: The Yezidis honor the goat because, like the Hindus cow, it sacrifices itself and
supplies many of their needs. It gives them milk, wool, etc.
The Peacock Angel was in the Garden of Eden and because of his pride he
refused Gods order to bow to Adam. This show of pride caused the fall of
Lucifer and established an eternal enmity between God and the Peacock Angel.
Truth: In the Yezidi tradition it is indeed stated that the Peacock Angel was present in the
Garden of Eden. He failed to bow down to Adam because he was obeying God. The Yezidis
claim that previous to the creation of Adam the Supreme God had informed all Seven Great
Angels never bow down to any other entity other than Him.
Truth: In the East the peacock is the symbol of the Son of God, the savior of humanity. The
peacock reflects the beneficent, immortal nature of the Son of God by devouring snakes,
the enemies of humanity. Through its innumerable eyes, the peacock also symbolizes the
omniscient nature of the Son of God. Apparently the misunderstanding of the birds evil
nature arose because it naturally reflects the androgyny of the Son of God, who was born
from the universal male/female polarity, i.e., Spirit and matter, dark and light, etc. It is for
this reason that the androgynous peacock is said to possess the beauty of an angel but the
demonic cry of the Devil.
The Yezidis are the People of the Caliph Yezid whose unpopular reign made
him an enemy of both Shiite and Sunni Moslems.
Truth: The Caliph Yezid was a Moslem who later became disenchanted with the Islamic
teachings and converted to Yezidism. The name Yezidi has existed since the Yezidi people
were first created.
In addition to the above, Moslems could have easily been mislead by the inaccurate
anecdotes and propaganda regarding the Peacock Angel, some of which have been
fabricated by other Moslems. A rumored Yezidi Origin Myth, for example, that alludes to
a Yezidi shepherd finding an injured Peacock Angel in the form of a physical peacock and
calling itself the Spirit of Evil thrown out of heaven is completely spurious and not
associated with any authentic Yezidi texts or teachings.