Jung was right.
From a comment on my article, Do Yezidis Worship the Devil?
I want to Thank You for the time you spent putting this article together, I found it fascinating. While reading your work I saw some obvious correlations to several things which I have seen in other mythologies. I want to explain my understanding first; my method is based on the works of Max Mueller and George Cox.
Every mythology no matter where it comes from is based originally on some observed phenomena be it solar, social-human, repetitive natures or wisdom and each culture contains, hidden in their myths, identical parts to foreign myths only with slight variations. For instance, in one, the primary focus will be on an object or a hero whereas in another from a different culture, it will focus on other aspects of that myth as primary with the object and hero still in it but not the primary aspect of it. George Cox proves this many times in his books.
“Malak Taus” contains two foreign words in the phrase which mean something similar yet entirely different to what you claim Yezidis say. Mulku (Sumerian), Marduk (Babylonian), Melkarte (Phoenician), Melchizedek (Hebrew), Moloch, Michael (Christian) these all mean the same thing;
“King”
“Tau” “Taw” “Thau” Sumerian, Egyptian, Phoenician, Celtic;
“Mark” …as in the sign of the resurrection; the resurrected deity.
Incidentally, the “Thau” was formed by tying with ropes, a long straight tree trunk horizontally to the point of a much larger oak just below the first branches. It was this giant tree cross that Druids worshiped/prayed before to receive divine inspiration.
“Once a year, on New Year’s Day, God calls his angels together and hands the power over to the angel who is to descend to Earth.”
The resurrection of the deity, who is a king; King of the Resurrected: Malak Taus. According to Max Mueller’s theories that would be one way to read the name.
“…one must communicate with him through intermediaries”
There is a strange logic in communing with a being who by his teachings shows you the opposite way to be, therefore giving away the divine truths. I applaud this concept if it is in fact what these people believe.
“What is it about birds that made them worthy of worship by the ancients?”
They appear to be able to ascend to the heavens so they act as messengers of the gods; this is the same in Egyptian, Celtic, Roman, Greek mythology.
“Without fire, there would be no life.”
Prometheus stole the fire from God (read, the spirit of life) which Athena then blew into man, who was formed of clay. In this version it is the Tree of Life which mankind partakes of.
“…worshiped seven angels who guided the courses of seven planets”
All cosmogony identical to Christian, Greek, Roman, Egyptian; 1. Sun 2. Moon 3. Mars 4. Venus 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Mercury which is cognate with the Ogdoad and Hebrew planes who are eight in number when you include heaven, God etc.
The “peacock angel” is the Phoenician-Egyptian Siri (Phoenix) the bird of creation who touched down to earth and formed all things. It represents creation itself, Ananke and Phanes in the Orphic. Protogonos and Metis as Prometheus in the Greek.
Yezidism is possibly the most ancient religion of them all, going back possibly 8-9,000 years. It is interesting that both it and the similiar Zoroastrianism both retain fire worship and a caste system, implying that the Hindu religion of India may also be based on some of the most ancient religions known to man.
Christian, Greek, Roman and Egyptian religion all worshiped 7 “angels” representing seven planetary objects: Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury – the same seven planet as were worshiped in the first religion 9,000 years ago.
The peacock angel is the Siri or Phoenix in Phoenician-Egyptian religion, who fell to Earth and created all things. The same Phoenix is the bird which rises from the ashes to recreate mythological or legendary societal greatness from the ashes of a ruined culture in fascist mythology. Ananke, Phanes, Protogonos and Metis as Prometheus in the Greek.
The worship of fire. Fire = life. The original man was made of clay. Prometheus stole fire (the life spirit) from God and gave it to Athena. Athena blew it into man who was made of clay, giving him fire-life. Fire is life. Without fire, there is no life spirit, and there is no life.
All ancient religions include bird worship. This is because birds and birds alone can rise to the heavens and hence serve as animate intermediaries between man and the Gods. Egyptian, Celtic, Roman and Greek religions all worshiped birds.
God may not be contacted directly, but must only be contacted via intermediaries. This is akin to the Jewish Kabbalist concept that God is such a strange concept that man can not only never know what God even is, but man cannot is not even able to truly formulate the concept in his mind of what God is, as God is too “rarefied” for man’s simple mind. God is “beyond all understanding.”
Malak Taus is the resurrected King. Christianity is the living embodiment of this 9,000 year old concept.
Every mythology no matter where it comes from is based originally on some observed phenomena be it solar, social-human, repetitive natures or wisdom and each culture contains, hidden in their myths, identical parts to foreign myths only with slight variations.
Of course. Human beings are all the same. Our myths and religions are even the same because the essence of what it means to be a human is somewhat restricted by the nature of Homo Sapiens. This is what Jung and his collective unconscious is all about.