Yarsanism

Kurdish Yarsanism/Yarsan (Mihtras) religion - Kurdistan Kirmanshan

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The Kurdish Yarêsanî, also Kaka'i or Yarsan or Yaresan, are a religious community of ancient Medes Zoroastrians, the border between the southern Kurdistan (around Halabja, Slemania, Kirkuk) and the east in Kurdistan and Lorestan to Kermanshah and in Khorasan (Xorasan) the Kurdish Kurmanjs, and more recently is located in Western countries in the Diaspora. The religion of the Kurdish Yaresanî significant elements of Kurdish (Yezidism (Ezidi) and Kurdish Aluwîansm (Luwain/Luvian of hittites). The number of members is estimated at 1,500,000 [1]. The main shrines of Yaresanî are the grave of the Baba Yadgar in Dohab and the grave Sultan Sahaks in Perdiwar. The religious literature of Yaresanî is written mainly in Kurdish Gorani (Hawrami and Leki), with most Yaresani are lekisprachig. The Yaresanî see yourself - no matter which dialect they speak - as Guran (Goran) - Kurds The Yarsani faith's unique features include millenarism, nativism, egalitarianism, metempsychosis, angelology, divine manifestation and dualism. Many of these features are found in Yazidism, another Kurdish faith, in the faith of ancient Kurdish Medes of Zoroastrians. The Yarsani have a famous saying about death; "Men! Do not fear the punishment of death! The death of man is like the dive which the duck makes." Human beings go through a cycle of 1001 incarnations. During this process, they may become more purified based on their actions. The Yarsani are emanationists and incarnationists, believing that the Divine Essence has successive incarnations in human form known as mazhariyyats (similar to the Hindu avatars). They believe God manifests one primary and seven secondary manifestations in each of the seven epochs of the world. The mazhariyyats of the First Epoch closely matched by name the archangels of the Semitic religions; the mazhariyyats of the Second Epoch, which begins with Ali as the primary avatar, also includes all Muslim figures except for one, Nusayr - either referring to the "Nazarene" (i.e. Jesus), or Nârsh, the minor avatar who later came to be known as Theophobus. (See Nazarene (sect), Mandaeism). In the Fourth Epoch, the primary mazhariyyat is held to be Sultan Sahak. It is said that he was given birth by Dayerak Rezbar or Khatun-e Rezbar, a Kurdish virgin, and as in the case of Mary, it was a virginal conception. While sleeping under a pomegranate tree a kernel of fruit fell into her mouth when a bird pecked the fruit directly over her. Although some mistake this as an incarnation of the Virgin Mary and of the mother of Ali, it echoes Kurdish Mithraic and Zoroastrian beliefs, of the birth of the Saoshyant, the savior of Zoroastrianism born of a virgin, impregnated by the seed of Zoroaster or Zarathushtra in Lake Hamun in Sistan. Mithra was also believed to be both Savior and son of God, born out of a rock - wearing only a Medes cap. The "Haft Tan" (The Seven Archangels) are key figures in the Yarsani belief system and their history. The only female among them is Khatun-e Rezbar, the mother of Sultan Sahak. 1.Pir Dawud (David) Notice slang called Daoo(Diva/Dawa?), the incarnation of the archangel Michael; 2.Pir Benjamin,or Benyam considered the incarnation of the archangel Gabriel; 3. Pir Mustafā', the incarnation of archangel Azrael; 4.Pir Musi, incarnation of the Recording angel; 5. Shah Ebrahim; embodies of Anahita 6. Baba Yadegar; 7. Khatun-e Razbar. The traditions of the Yarsani are preserved in poetry known as Kalam-e Saranjam (The Discourse of Conclusion), divinely revealed narratives passed down orally through the generations. These traditions are said to have been written down by Pir Musi, one of the seven companions of Sultan Sahak (also the angel in charge of recording human deeds). The collection consists of the epochs of Khawandagar [God], ‘Alī, Shah Khoshin and Sultan Sahak, the different manifestations of divinity. The epoch of Shah Khoshin takes place in Luristan and the epoch of Sultan Sahak is placed in Hawraman near the Sirwan River, the land of the Goranî. The sayings attributed to Sultan Sahak are written in Gorani Kurdish, the sacred language of the Yarsan. Branches Yarsan, Yarisan, Yaresan, Yazda, Yazdanism, Ezidi, Aluwian, luwian