In the manga "Peacock King" created by Makoto Ogino in Japan, there is a "cult" Yazidi sect, whose main god worship is called the Peacock King. This peacock king is very similar to the "peacock king" in tantric Buddhism, but in the manga it is the same deity as the fallen angel of Western religion. Japanese manga artists are eclectic and like to fuse the myths of various countries in the world, such as the Indian Buddha in Saint Seiya, zeus in Rome, and Odin in Northern Europe – so the Eastern and Western religious settings in "Peacock King" will not surprise readers. But have you ever thought that there really is a Yazidi sect that worships the peacock king in real society?
First, let's talk about the Yazidis who believe in the Yazidi sect. The Yazidis are actually one of the Kurds – are they familiar? Yes, there are often armed clashes between Kurds and government forces in Iraq, and this is the Kurds. The Kurds lived in the Middle East and belonged to two separate peoples from the Arabs, whose distant ancestors were nomadic peoples in West Asia, and most of them converted to Islam around the seventh century AD due to the conquest of the Arab Empire, but the Kurds maintained a considerable degree of independence until the Ottoman Empire. After World War I, the Ottoman Empire disintegrated, but the Kurds were not given a piece of land of their own, but were divided into Turkey, Iran, Syria, the Caucasus and other regions.
During the Arab Empire, most Kurds did convert to Islam, but there were exceptions, and the Yazidis, who remained in this unique belief, were known as the "Yazidis" because of the ethnic group of their followers.
In fact, for the Middle East, where human civilization is the oldest, Islam is a new thing, and before the rise of Islam, the Middle East had many different forms of religions, the most famous of which is Yuanjiao, also known as Zoroastrianism, which is the prototype of the "Persian Mingism" described in Jin Yong's novel "The Book of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens"; and the Yazidi sect is also one of these ancient religions.
The Yazidi sect worships the "peacock angel", and in the Yazidi doctrine, God also created seven angels at the time of creation, and the peacock angel was the leader of all the angels, who fell into hell for refusing to submit to Adam, and later received God's forgiveness for repentance. God thus gave the peacock angel a special honor, which thus represented the potential of human beings for good and evil. This religious legend clearly carries the influence of dualism, which may not have had any effect if it were separated from the Middle East and placed in any one region, but in the context of Semitic monotheism (i.e., the three great apocalyptic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), the story of the peacock angel is almost exactly consistent with the plot of another demon, that is, Lucifer, the fallen angel known as Satan.
If this plot similarity only gives the Yazidi sect the probabilization of "demon worship", then the name of the peacock angel knocks the Yazidis into the bottom of the religious war - the peacock angel, named Melek Taus, alias Shaytan, and this alias is consistent with satan the devil, so that in the Middle Ages, where doctrine is greater than life, the Yazidi inevitably wear the name of "demon worship", and this name is far more terrible than the pagans, and the results are also disastrous. During the ottoman rule, the Yazidis endured dozens of genocidal movements, and it is not difficult to understand why the Yazidi sect is described as a cult in the work of Japanese manga artist Makoto Ogino, The Peacock King...