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- -Yazidi (Wikipedia.org)
"The Yazidi (also Yezidi, Êzidî, Yazdani...) are a Kurdish religious community who practice an ancient religion linked to Zoroastrianism and ancient Mesopotamian religions.[11] They live primarily in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq, a region once part of ancient Assyria. Additional communities in Armenia, Georgia and Syria have been in decline since the 1990s, their members having migrated to Europe, especially to Germany.[12] The Yazidi believe in God as creator of the world, which he placed under the care of seven 'holy beings' or angels, the 'chief' (archangel) of whom is Melek Taus, the 'Peacock Angel.' " 12-09
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