> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:57:56 +1000
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> Hi Sabina,
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> How interesting! Right... I'm a bit vague on Feri, so while I knew there was
> some sort of peacock deity in there, I don't know much else about it. Or
> should I say "them" as apparently many Feri initiates taught directly by
> Victor have found that he presented Feri to them all completely differently,
> so it doesn't seem to be one of those Witchcraft Trads that can be smoothed
> out into it "canonical" characteristics.
>
> Yes, interesting re the Yezidis in US Interfaith, unfortunate for them being
> persecuted back home though.
>
> ~Caroline.
>
>
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> Hi everyone,
>
> Yes, Caroline -- Victor Anderson's Feri tradition of Witchcraft does include
> the Peacokck Angel as one of its deities, and from my understanding, Feri
> initiates do see a continuity between him and the deity of the Yezedi.
>
> Interesting that Yezedi influence is now being felt in US Interfaith. How
> cool is that?
>
> BB,
> Sabina
>
> Sabina Magliocco
> Professor
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> California State University - Northridge
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> Wow, that album sounds interesting... and talk of a peacock angel is
> reminding me of the Feri Tradition of Witchcraft which has some sort of
> peacock deity, not sure if it's meant to be evoking the Yezidi angle in any
> way...(as an invented tradition, I mean).
>
> ~Caroline.
>
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> Hi, Caroline -
>
>
> Thanks for the heads-up - another one for the shelves of our new Library (
> once the shelves go up, any day now)!
>
>
> The Yezidi immigrants are definitely making their presence felt here in the
> States, religiously and culturally - for example, the dialogue going on with
> Southern Baptist groups ( among others ) in Tennessee, with interfaith study
> groups sharing and comparing their origins and cosmologies.
>
> And as an example of cultural / artistic impact, I would point to the lovely
> acoustic guitar track on William Tyler's 2010 *Behold the Spirit* album,
> entitled "The Cult of the Peacock Angel".
>
> Cors in Manu Domine,
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> ~ Khem Caigan
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> in and to each Thing; Fire and Air, Active by Elementation; Water and Earth,
> Passive to Generation."
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> *Of the Division of Chaos*
> -Dr. Simon Forman