Melek Taus

Patron of the misunderstood, those demonized for sovereignty, peacekeepers. Invoked for understanding demonization, sacred pride, beauty magic, redemption of misunderstood beings. Teaches that not all refusal is rebellion, that sovereignty can serve devotion, that demonization reveals more about accusers than accused.

Yazidi Peacock Angel, leader of the seven Divine Beings (heft sirr) whom God created before the world and entrusted with its affairs; an emanation of God, a good and benevolent angel who is neither fallen nor disgraced, who passed a test and made the cosmos from the Cosmic egg, and who is Lord of this world - responsible for all that happens in it, good and bad. His emblem is the peacock: its colours are the diversity of nature and its fanned tail the rays of the sun at dawn; the first Wednesday of Nisan (Sersal, the Yazidi New Year) is his descent to earth as light. The 'refused to bow to Adam', 'wept for thousands of years' and 'extinguished the fires of hell' narratives are foreign to Yazidism (attributed to later Muslim or Christian hands), and identifying him with Lucifer or Satan is a misconception that has fuelled centuries of persecution; Yazidis hold him to be no source of evil.