YAZIDI COSMOGONIC MYTHS. TO THE QUESTION OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF YEZIDISM, AHL-HAQQ AND ZOROASTRIANISM

The main motives of the cosmogony myth are the creation of a world center, which is often called the "Center of the World" and this space is sacred. Through this axis passes the axis of the world, thus connecting the Earth and man with heaven and the Creator. Perhaps that is why in the traditional beliefs of the peoples of Central Asia occupy a special place in the axis, the mountain, the pillar, the throne of the Lord, the cosmic Tree (Tree of Life). According to Yazidi myths, a special place belongs to a Tree called "Dara Herherê" (Infinite Tree)

In yazidism there is a legend that precedes the creation of the world, which tells that in the beginning there was a large ocean and in the center of the ocean grew the Eternal Tree (Vai Hererê). On it sat the "great white bird as Light" (Nûr), and it was the Lord himself (Xweda). Jibrail (Jibra'îl), is also in the way birds flew next to the tree, where was God, but Jibrail didn't know who was next to him while using Saksena angel (Melek de Equidade de êxisin) is not realized that a large white bird its Creator (Some identify the way the jib-Raila way Tausi Malak). This legend I heard and recorded from the words of several Yazidis from Armenia, Iraq and Turkey.

The Yazidi myth of the Tree 

Dara Hererê

On Kurmanji

Ev dinya behr bû. Dareke di

nîveka dinyayê da bû. Digotinê

«Dara Herherê». Xudê bi şiklê

teyrî hate ser vê Darê dana. Go,

Cibraîl hate miqabilî Wî sekinî.

Hingê melayîka Xudê û yek-û-du

nedinasîn. Cibraîl hat li ber dana.

Go, Xudê gotê: «Tu kî yî û ez kî

me?». Go, wî (Cibraîl) gotê: «Tu

tu yî, ez ez im». Wextê gotê:



«Tû kî yî, ez kî me?» û gotê:

«Tu tuyî, ez ez im», go: «Ezê tiştekî

deme te. Here, ba vê qulînçka

dinyayê dane». Mesele, xerbê

dinyayê danê. Yenî dibêjin, heta

ev dinya cebirand her çar aliyê

kir, bir alîyekî dinyayê danaye.

Ew Cibraîl bû.

Hingî Cibraîl hatiye nik Melek

Şêxisin û jê pirsiyar kir, go:

„Teyrekî ser vê darê wekî

Nûrekê pirsyarê ji min diket,

dibêjite min: «Tû kî yî, ez kî

me?» [Melek Şêxisin] go: «Tu çi

dibêjî?» [Cibraîl] go: «Ez

dibêjimê: «Tu tu yî, ez ez im».»

Go: «Na!» Go: «Em ji wî Nûrî

hatine xuliqandin. Ew Xudayê

me ye!» Go: «Bêje: ‘Tu Xuliq î,

ez mexlûq im’.»

Vêja wextê Cibraîl çû dana,

[Xudê] gotê: «Tu kî yî, ez kî

me?». Cibraîl hingî gotê: «Tu

Xaliq î, ez muxlûq im». [Xudê]

gotê: «Rehme li Seydeyê te!»

Yenî, Şex Hesen hostayî bo

Cibraîl kir. Vêja hingî dinyayê çê

kir.

This world was the ocean. In the middle

the world was a tree. It was called

The Eternal Tree ("Dara Herherê").

The Lord in the form of a bird sat on

this tree. They say that

Jibrail appeared and stood up.-

against Him. At that time angels did not

they knew neither God nor each other.

Jibrail came [and] stood up-

against [Him].

The Lord asked, "Who are you and who am I?»

He (Jibrail) replied: "You are

you I am." The Lord said, "I

give you something. Go [and]

put it in that corner of the world. Upon-

example, put it in the West

[corner] of the world." That is, they say,

[that] while the world has shrunk, in CA-

the four parts of it were waiting.

it is necessary on one sign.

Carried it away and left it in each

parts of the world. It was Gibrail.

Then Jibrail came to the angel

Senesino. And asked him: "Bird,

[what] like the Light, on this Dere-

ve asks me, "Who are you,

who am I?"[Angel Seksen]

asked [Jibrail]: "[A] you that

answer?"[Jibrail] said:

"You are you, I am I." [He] said:

"No!"[And] explained, 'We were

created from this Light. He is.

Our Lord!"[Angel Seksen]

said, "Answer [Him], 'You are

Creator, I am creation."

So when Jibrail left [and] sat down

[to the tree], [Lord] asked

[him]: "Who are you, who am I?".

Then Jibrail replied, "You are.

Creator, I am creation." [GOS-

pod] said: "Let it be merciful over

your mentor!" I. e. Sheikh

Hassan instructed Jibrail. And

only then did He (the Lord) create

world.

The mention of a Tree growing in the center of the world can also be found in the Yezidi Prayer of Faith (Du'a Baweriyê, verses 5-7), where it is described as a tree, roots;

From the prayer of Faith in Kurmanji

Her nod û neh hezar salî darek jê mekanê wî ye.

Ew bû dara bi nav xewa

Serî li xwar rehêt wê li hewa

Meleka rahişt nûra li sere sera.

Ew bû dara bi nav xeware

Kok li hewa serî li xware

Ji qudretê av vedixware


English translation

It was a tree named Howe.

Its top is at the bottom, [a] roots are at the top

The angels took the light from the highest height.

It was a tree named havar.

Its roots are at the top, its top is at the bottom

Force (divine) saw water