Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition |
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| Author:
| Spät, Eszter |
| Series title: | Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4632-2202-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2013 |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press, LLC
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $225.00 |
Book Description:
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The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who practice a highly syncretistic religion based exclusively on oral tradition. Their myths and motifs, besides showing the influence of both Sufism and a pre-Zoroastrian Western Iranian mythology, are related to the religious movements of Late Antiquity, and reveal the vestiges of a common cultural substratum once shared by the people of the region.
The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who practice a highly syncretistic religion based exclusively on oral tradition. Their myths and motifs, besides showing the influence of both Sufism and a pre-Zoroastrian Western Iranian mythology, are related to the religious movements of Late Antiquity, and reveal the vestiges of a common cultural substratum once shared by the people of the region.