Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition / / Eszter Spät.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Spät, Eszter,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (580 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463222024; 9783111024141; 9783110663037; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463222024
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eszter Spät.

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.