Below are the 19 most recent journal entries recorded in Yezidi Peacock Angel Cult's LiveJournal:

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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
11:06 am [weishaupt]	Can any of you recommend any good factual books dealing specifically with the subject of the Yezidis and Yezidi beliefs? Current Mood: curious (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
8:15 pm [vonjunzt]	Mark Amaru Pinkham redux Last night, I purchased the January-February 2008 issue of Atlantis Rising, which has Mark Amaru Pinkham's article "On the Plight of the Yezidees" in it. The article was much better than I expected. Although the photos are plagiarized from Wikipedia's article "Yazidi," it turns out Pinkham really is in contact with the Yezidi community in Lincoln, and much of his article is about what he claims their leader told him. I somewhat doubt that he's quite as much a representative as he claims, though; the way it's put in the article it sounds more like the Yezidi community is looking for anyone who can help them protect their compatriots in their homeland. In any event, he must be rather bad representative; there's nothing about the Yezidi on his webpage. Where Pinkham diverges from the Yezidi is his whole theory that their worship (as well as Christianity, for that matter) is derived from the worship of Murugan. Pinkham claims the Yezidi agreed with him and claimed that they originally came from India, but I'd want to actually hear this from a Yezidi who knew about Hinduism before I believed it. In any event, it does ignore hundreds of years of history. I've ordered his book The Truth Behind the Christ Myth: The Redemption of the Peacock Angel, which copperstewart tells me he wrote before he knew any Yezidi. In any event, it was a very interesting, if sometimes dubious, article, and I look forward to reading his book. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
10:36 pm [vonjunzt]	The Yezidi of Lincoln, Nebraska The Yezedi of Lincoln, Nebraska Weekend America for DECEMBER 8, 2007 The Yezidi are Kurds who practice an ancient and complex religion. Avishay Artsy spends time with the Hassan family, who live in Lincoln, Neb., home the largest community of Yezidis in the United States. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
12:11 am [vonjunzt]	Mark Amaru Pinkham This evening, while browsing the magazine racks at BookStar, I came across a a magazine I'd never heard of -- Atlantis Rising. The latest issue had an article on the plight of the Yezidis by a guy calling himself Mark Amaru Pinkham. I didn't bother to buy it, but I might go back and do so. The article didn't seem to me all that good, in large part because the guy who wrote it used pictures from the early part of last century instead of contemporary ones -- hearkening back to a mythic past rather than showing any true knowledge of what's really going on in Kurdistan today. What truly surprised me was that, at the end of the article was a paragraph describing how Pinkham is a "representative" of the Yezidi in America. That claim stank like a week-old corpse in my nostrils, because he also claims to be a representative of Sri Lankan religion, and his website is GnosticTemplars.org, and it has nothing to do with the Yezidis . These days, anyone who uses the words Gnostic or Templar is suspect. At any rate, the question I was getting to are: Does anyone know anything about this Mark Amaru Pinkham guy? Does anyone take him seriously, let alone genuine Yezidis? Or is he just another jackass cashing in on words he doesn't understand? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
1:43 pm [weishaupt]	Can any of you recommend good scholarly works regarding beliefs of the Yezidis? Current Mood: curious (Comment on this)
Monday, May 28th, 2007
2:20 pm [vonjunzt]	Pilgrimage to Lalesh Pilgrimage to Lalesh, the tomb of Sheikh 'Adi and main shrine of the Yezidi. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 21st, 2007
8:12 pm [vonjunzt]	Hesen Şerîf - Beyta Laliş Hesen Şerîf's "Beyta Laliş." A song about the Yezidi religion, filmed at the shrine at Lalesh. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
8:38 pm [kiramor]	peacock stories Please forgive the crosspost. I'm searching for stories about the peacock angel for a devotional art project. If you are willing, please send me stories, links, leads, etc. (I'll share the results of the work when it's finished.) Thanks. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
10:53 am [vonjunzt]	Yezidi massacre 23 Yezidis massacred in Iraq (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
9:49 pm [catbirdgirl]	peacock siam belt There is an exceptional peacock siam silver belt and earrings and pins and stuff on ebay- the item number is 180034046103. here it is, if this works The incredible peacock belt (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
4:06 pm [weishaupt]	Current Mood: pleased (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 25th, 2005
4:17 pm [00goddess]	Yezidi magazine! Forgive me if you all know this already but... I just learned that a large group of Yezidi moved to Germany to escape Saddam Hussein's genocide of Kurds, and they have an online magazine. Woe is me, it's in German! (x-posted to feri and peacock_cult (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 7th, 2005
11:20 am [heiregulus]	Single Blue Peacock, Unclipped Wings - ISO Single Blue Peahen(s) Because, well, it seems apropos. Peacocks Skip School to Check out Chicks Current Mood: amused Current Music: Dave Brubeck -- Take Five (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 7th, 2005
9:46 am [kali_ma]	They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... So for those of you who SINCERELY want to emulate the Great Peacock God... Uh - not work safe, for those of you with jobs :)) (I saw one of these in a store this weekend and had to share!) Current Mood: naughty (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 5th, 2005
10:53 pm [weishaupt]	My mother has been holding out on me. It turns out she has a peacock feathered mask from New Orleans. Bitch won't let me have it, either. I'm going to have to import one. Oh yeah, and if that peacock kimono I saw at the imported Japanese stuff store is gone when I get paid I am going to be totally pissed off. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, January 28th, 2005
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
8:15 am [deuce8palms]	Look at the heat it sparked.. Time to give my Peacock-lovin' mentor the only worldly gift I know to give. Current Mood: mission accomplished Current Music: thievery corporation (Comment on this)
Friday, January 28th, 2005
12:10 am [weishaupt]	Malik Ta`uz, Laird of the painted fanny The Choronzon Machine's cogs and pistons turn and churn, pumping out fractal forms which drift and split into myriad mandalic tentacles of possibility. The Great Wheel in the centre ROTAtes, clickering and clanking into place each time a new pair of coupled arcana are presented. The Fool skips and bounds along, oblivious to or at least unhindered by the gyrations of the gears and strange vapours wafting from the cantankerous piping and serpentine tubular transparencies with their gossamer shimmering undulations. We at the Peacock Angel Cult have a Choronzon Machine and we`re not afraid to use it! FOOL: 'Oh Babalon you have flayed me with your eyes, You know what within me lies…' BABALON: 'Well come to bed, Cause I know what's inside your head' The beast replied with a thrust between her thighs… (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 27th, 2005
8:54 pm [weishaupt]	Is your swaggle as Horny as mine? Move over Rover, and let the Captain take over! (Comment on this)