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Today's hymn is dedicated to the Yezidis of northern Iraq aka Kurdistan. The Yezidis are a remnant population of Zarathustrians or Enochians or maybe Chthuhluians living in the area around Basiqa among the more numerous Kurds, Arabs, and Turks. They worship Melek T'aus, the Peacock Angel, known to the infidel "people of the book" as Shaitan, or Satan.
Dr. Omed fears that the defeat of the tyranny of Saddam may loose lesser but no less fearful tyrannies upon minorites such as the Yezidis, and with the looting of the library and museums of Baghdad and Mosul, that the Shrine of the Yezidis in Kurdistan may suffer the depredations of the liberated and pious majority. His Loveliness the Pope asks his cyber-seekers to pray for the Yezidis and the preservation of their shrine.
Gnostic Physics: The Peacock Angel
The angel sinned light.
First and prime spark
tapping out a binary
against the null egg
of zero-god.
Lucifer broke the invariant
and fell into existence,
from chaos into order,
with the weight of all matter
on his wings.
Photons are his children;
each an infinitesimal death-into-light,
unfurling the universe
along the binding curve
of his wings.
Dana Pattillo 2003
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