mirrorbird(00:03:56)
IZEDI -- yes -- i can find it, that was the one, you've surely seen it in your researches and it was probably a quote of somebody else's -- but yes IZEDI.
Oldchap(00:03:17)
Yeah, there are like maybe 7 spellings
Oldchap(00:03:02)
Well the Yazidis are usually referred to in 19th-century works of all kinds as devil worshippers. This is because the accounts of their chief divinity bear some narrative similarity to the Lucifer/Iblis narratives of Christianity and Islam, respectively
mirrorbird(00:02:40)
it would help if i could remember the spelling, cause there are so many, yazidi, yezidi, ezidi, etc. etc. -- if it comes back to me, mate, i will share, but this was really an ancient misunderstanding and god knows how they transliterated.
mirrorbird(00:01:39)
sometimes cannibals -- never dragons --
mirrorbird(00:01:30)
rather akin (imo) to the idea where "any coast we haven't studied yet must be full of dragons or cannibals"
mirrorbird(00:01:04)
it was a very old dictionary like Webster 1913 (but an older one i think) -- so -- right now no, but i remember... it was lo-quality term filling. you know? if you're a prof you seen the same thing in someone's dissertation
mirrorbird(00:00:19)
i've misstated it (it wasn't skulls, but what was it? can't be fire, cause that is zoroaster, i'm half educated)