> Mira Khatun Wansa, Wansa Ismail el-Amawy or simply Wansa (1917 — June 25, 2015) was a Yazidi princess. In 1934–1938 she was the wife of Mir Sa'id Beg. Wansa was born in Tikrit and was a daughter of Ismail Beg. Her brothers were Mua'wia, Abd el-Karim and Yezid Khan.> In 1934, she became the fifth wife of Sa'id Beg, son of Ali Beg and Meyan Khatun in the Stone Palace in Ba'adra.> In 1938, Said Beg attended a meeting where Wansa's brother Yezid Khan was accused of conspiracy and marked for death. When Said Beg informed Wansa, she pulled out a revolver from beneath her pillow and said "He will hear that you have died first!". She fired multiple times, wounding her husband. > In the confusion Wansa's Armenian chauffeur Hagop assisted her to escape to Mosul and then to Baghdad, where a hiding place was found for her by Hagop's family, whom Wansa's father Ismail had rescued years before.
Almost Gnostics, except they consider Demiurge to be good instead of evil.
>>16531927Possibly originally Indians/Hindus keeping older pagan traditions alive while living under Muslim rule, thus the secrecy.
>>16531967> isn’t that just regular monotheism >>16531987How did they end up in iraq
>>16532057The same way Gypsies ended up everywhere.
>>16532078Are Yazidis gypsies?I thought they were kurdish
>>16532086Possibly a higher caste than Untouchables, so no.
>>16531927A pre-islamic Iranian religion LARPing as monotheistic due islam influence in the region
>>16532173There were clearly other influences though. That Iranian religion may have provided the Mythos, but that's arguably not that important.
>>16532173Wasn’t pre islamic Iranian religion already monotheistic under Zoroastrianism >>16532469So are they a muslim sect or pre islamic
>>16532086Kurds even today see ezidis as Indian heathens. The Ezidis have been pressed by kurds more than any other people
>>16532469This wikipedia article seems to have been edited by an ezidi.There is no proof of a "pre-Zoroastrian" religion being established there AND surviving the reforms of Zarathustra. The first Iranian Empire, the Medes were Zoroastrian as were all the successors; nkw we are supposed to believe in 3500+ years these Ezidis survived unchanged andneere always there before the Medes?Sheik Adi is an arab of the Umayyad dynasty.
>>16532973I thought Yazidis all lived in the Iraqi deserts and mountains. Do they have internet access?
>>16532086They are
