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Msg#: 15745 Date: 08-03-96 19:29
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Subj: Thread 19a
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johnfwin@mlode.com (John F. Winston)wrote:
>Subject: Copyright. July 29, 1996.
>
> The people from the World Ascension Network contacted me through
>another person and asked me to put forth the following information
>about the article that I quoted that was called Who Is The Shadai El
>Chai. Here is the statement.
>
> Credit after reprint in "Let There Be Light newsletter.
>
> ...reestablish the Order of Melchizedek.
>Princess Sharula is a native of the Subterranean city of Telos
>located beneath Mt. Shasta. As the official ambassador for the
>Agarthean Network of subterranean cities, her mission is to prepare
>the way for the merger of surface society with her own...
>...for product information on the Subterranean Cities, Alchemics for
>Immortality, and other teachings by Princess Sharula and Shield Dux.
>Send inquires to WAN 369 Montazuma New Mexico
>87501- -8679.
>
> JW So that is what they asked for me to put on the Net. Frankly
>I feel rather cheap for having done so.
>
>John Winston. johnfwin@mlode.com
Yes, kind of tacky of them. Seems the wackier the publication,
the tighter the copyright frenzy. Mt. Shasta is a dormant volcano,
makes you wonder if they (Princess Sharula, native of the
Subterranean city of Telos and the Order of Melchizedek) had to
move their "home office" from Mt. Saint Helens to Shasta?!!
[By way of New Mexico no doubt...]
>(No Body) wrote:
>>Mr. Winston, you are one cool cucumber.
- - -
>>Hey, btw, can you help with a question: Who is/was "Melek Taus"? 'Has
>>something to do with the Yezidis, I think... (Maybe Legion can help
>>out on this one).
As no help was forthcoming... -[must be, "Legion" is a one act pony]- came
up with a few preliminary bits of data below. [Who was/is Melek Taus?]
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http://cyberland.recife.softex.br/~mephisto/Demons.htm
Melek Taus - Yezidi devil
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http://alpha.netaccess.on.ca/~lrg/andro.htm
Melek Taus (The Peacock Angel)
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http://www.arab.net/iraq/tour/iq_mountains.html
The town of Sinjar, situated on the slopes of the Jebel Sinjar mountains,
is the home of the Yezidis, often known - incorrectly - as Devil worshippers.
A more accurate summary of their beliefs would be their perception of the
Devil as a fallen angel, whose evil deeds in the world must be appeased in
order that he should become one with the angels once more. Some elements of
Christianity, Islam and nature worship are to be found in their beliefs.
The Yezidis are of Kurdish stock.
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"There has been considerable debate among anthropologists as to whether the
Yezidi god (Melek Taus, Taus Melek, Taus-e Malak) is in fact the Satan of
Judaic-Christian tradition. In preparation for her 1941 anthropological study
of the Yezidis , 'Peacock Angel', Ethel S. Drower asked a Yezidi *qawwal*
(religious teacher) point blank about the Devil worship rumours centered on
Melek Taus. He responded:
'We do not believe, like Islam, that He is the Lord of Evil (Sharr).
He is the chief of the seven angels, and is one with Gabriel, who
removes the soul from the human body when Azrael (the Hebrew
angel of death) comes for it. The evil in men's hearts is not from
Him, but from themselves.' "
- Excerpted passage by M. 'Archie' A.
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http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/utaustin/course/oilcourse/mail/iraq/0011.htm
l
MSANEWS CULTURE: Of the Devil Worshipers of Iraq: A brief sketch
of the Yezidi Community of Iraq
HEADLINE: The Yezidi Struggle to Survive
By Amalia van Gent
Outside the main arena of political events in Iraq, a small religious
community known as the Yezidi is trying to prevent its slow destruction.
In the part of northern Iraq controlled by the Kurds, they have experienced
a brief cultural renaissance, but as Islamic fundamentalism grows among the
Kurds, the Yezidi increasingly fear a renewal of the persecutions they have
endured for centuries.
According to Yezidi writer Pir Hadir Suleiman, the town of Lalesh is the
center of the world for the Yezidis, a small religious and cultural community
in
northern Iraq. This is where the tomb of Sheik Adi Ben Musafiz is located, the
mystic who reformed the Mesopotamian religion of the Yezidi in the 12th
century.
Sheik Adi laid the foundation for their modern history and later became their
principal saint.
"The outside world simply must learn about the customs and traditions of my
people," Suleiman continues, "because otherwise there is no hope of preventing
the destruction of our culture, which used to be one of the advanced
civilizations of the Middle East."
Lalesh, situated in a narrow, green valley in the mountainous Sheikhan
district of northern Iraq, seems oddly still. In the center of the town stands
the temple of Sheik Adi, with its funnel-shaped towers, some of them gilded.
Next to the imposing portal, the high stone walls surrounding the shrine are
decorated with reliefs bearing mysterious, archaic motifs and the image of a
long black snake. Scattered in the area surrounding the temple are large
buildings reminiscent of palaces, all completely uninhabited. They are tombs of
Yezidi saints and leaders. For Lalesh is a necropolis, a city of the dead. It
used to be the seat of the community's highest priest, the Baba Sheik. But the
last Baba Sheik was forced by the Baghdad regime to leave Lalesh, and he is
said
to live on the other side of the Iraqi-Kurdish demarcation line. The high
priest
of the temple at Lalesh is Baba Yavus, who has remained to tend the necropolis
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http://www.arab.net/iraq/history/iq_cradle.html
The Cradle of Civilisation ({Elementary history this})
In ancient times the land area now known as modern Iraq was almost
equivalent to Mesopotamia, the land between the two rivers (Tigris and
Euphrates). This region is known as the Cradle of Civilisation, for it
was here in about 4000BC that the Sumerian culture flourished. Land was
cultivated for the first time, early calendars were used and the first
written alphabet was invented here. Ur of the Chaldees was a great and
famous Sumerian city, dating from this time.
After the collapse of this civilisation, the people were reunited in
1700BC by King Hammurabi of Babylon, and the country flourished under the
name of Babylonia. On Hammurabi's death, the land was under Assyrian rule
for about two centuries. It was then restored to its former Babylonian
glory under Nebuchadnezzar II, who built the famous Hanging Gardens, and
made Babylon the most famous city of the ancient world.
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http://marlowe.wimsey.com/~rshand/streams/masons/mysteries.html
Upon being initiated into the Order of the Peacock Angel (Yezidis),"a holy
thread, of intertwined black and red wool, is put around the neck. Like the
sacred thread of the Parsis and other ancient Middle Eastern cults, this
must never be removed; and it sounds like the cord that the Templars were
accused of wearing when the Order was suppressed as heretic."
- Arkon Daraul, Secret Societies
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Why do you suppose former U.S. President George Bush refrained from
continuing post-Desert Storm support to the Iraqi "Kurds" (Yezidis),
thereby ensuring the failure of their bid to take down Saddam Hussein
and his puppet regime?
- A. N. M.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PS- Mr. Winston. The Sirians, a coalitian of the Shastan Shapeshifter's
Union and myself again thank you for your work. It is a treat to read
some of the old theories once more (and some we never heard of!)
Understand then that the following suggestion is not meant to be
insulting - just a suggestion: If your "*Thread#(letter)* subject
naming-convention" starts to become cumbersome as a result of some of
my "exuberant" colleague's (i.e., 'funkychickenheads' aka, USENETIANS
FROM HELL) actions, then perhaps you could devise clever and imaginative
subject headers instead? Or do your Andromedan "keepers" not allow for
independent, creative thought? Those of us who have followed your work
for any appreciable time would recognize your name anyway. Of course,
by the same token, there is great dignity in maintaining your steadfast
adherence to your "Thread" scheme ("damn the torpedos!") and one
fast 'click' reveals the sophmoric reply from the genuine. Therefore,
in closing: never mind...
- A F. Chickenhead
[PPS: "alt.flame"?! "Harvard's fetish for bulbous dead actor nostrils"?!!
Mr. Winston, what's come over you??!! Are those goofy Andromedans screwing
around with your head again?]
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