Środa i jej święto w tradycji religijnej Jezydów = Wednesday and its Festival in the Religious Tradition of the Yezidis

The paper is devoted to the holy day of the Yezidis, Wednesday, and the Spring festival of Çarşemiya Sor. I propose an interpretation of the meaning of this day, pointing to the supposed relationship between the meaning of Wednesday and the description of ‘fourth day’ in the Old Testament tradition....

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Subtitles:Wednesday and its Festival in the Religious Tradition of the Yezidis
Main Author: Rodziewicz, Artur (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego 2019
In: Studia religiologica
Year: 2019, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 109-125
Further subjects:B Moon
B Stars
B słońce
B księżyc
B Sun
B Tora
B Torah
B Jezydzi
B anioły
B gwiazdy
B Spring rituals
B obrzędy wiosenne
B Spring festival
B Peacock Angel
B święta Środa
B Anioł Paw
B festivals / Księga Rodzaju
B Wednesday
B Genesis
B Cosmogony
B Angels
B kosmogonia
B Yezidis
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Summary:The paper is devoted to the holy day of the Yezidis, Wednesday, and the Spring festival of Çarşemiya Sor. I propose an interpretation of the meaning of this day, pointing to the supposed relationship between the meaning of Wednesday and the description of ‘fourth day’ in the Old Testament tradition. I also show that the annual feast of Çarşemiya Sor, just like every Wednesday of the week, for the Yezidis commemorate the creation of the material world and subjecting it to the power of angels (especially to the Peacock Angel) and heavenly bodies. I rely mainly on the Yezidi sources and materials gathered during my own field research in Iraq and the South Caucasus.
ISSN:2084-4077
Contains:Enthalten in: Studia religiologica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4467/20844077SR.19.008.11194