ԱՐՕՏ ԵԼԱՆ

[Arpa]

ԱՐՕՏ ԵԼԱՆ ԵԶԻԴԻՆԵՐԸ

 

ԱՐՕՏ ԵԼԱՆ ԵԶՆԵՐՆ ԱԼ

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OK, Here is a riddle. Why the plural of ԵԶ -is ԵԶՆԵՐ but that of ԿՈՎ is ԿՈՎԵՐ(no N)?

 

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http://hetq.am/eng/articles/2854/

 

 

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http://hetq.am/static/news/b/2011/07/2854.jpg

 

 

 

 

Yezidi Family Prepares for Summer High in the Geghard Mountains

 

13:14, July 12, 2011

Gyavas is the Yezidi woman seen in the accompanying photo. She is busy preparing everything the family will need to spend the next three months in the mountains of Geghard with their grazing livestock.

It's a ritual that plays out every year immediately after the June rains. It has taken the family's herd of 120 cattle two days to reach the cooler climes of the mountains. It will take the family just over one hour by truck early next morning.

Gyavas has been preparing for the move for the past month. There's a lot of stuff that needs to be packed and transported up into the hills – tables, chairs, bed frames, warm clothes, kitchen utensils, equipment to milk the cows and make cheese. The list goes on.

Then there's the food needed – 100 kilos of potatoes, flour, and prepared lavash. They'll also take their flock of chickens. There are no stores up in the mountains.

The woman told me that they dig deep holes in the ground outside their tents to be used as chicken pens.

Once and awhile, a local peddler/tradesman makes the circuitous route up into the mountains with his wares. The Yezidi kids welcome his arrival with loud shouting for the man carries their favourites – candy, sweets and even ice-cream. He sells the basics as well – tomatoes, cherries, cucumbers – but his prices aren't cheap. Oftentimes, the Yezidis barter with the travelling salesman.

Bahar, the young daughter-in-law of Gyavas, says that each Yezidi family has their territory staked out up in the mountains and it is clear who "owns" what.

Every year, the families sign a lease contract with the Kotayk Regional Administration for grazing and residency rights. The average lease goes for about 300,000 AMD.

The tents used by the Yezidis aren't cheap either; ranging from $1,000 - $2,000. But they are sturdy and can last from 10-20 years if well maintained.

Yezidi families spending the summers up in the mountains usually pack two tents – one for sleeping and the other to house the dairy operations; cheese storage, yoghurt making, etc.

One corner of the main living tent is set aside as the spiritual or religious focus of the Yezidi faith.

In the Yezidi belief system, God created the world and it is now in the care of a Heptad of seven Holy Beings, often known as Angels or heft sirr (the Seven Mysteries). Preeminent among these is Tawûsê Melek (frequently known as "Melek Taus" in English publications), the Peacock Angel.

A pile of mattresses and comforters rises from the floor to the ceiling of the tent. Inside are placed various talismans, a horseshoe and a picture depicting the Peacock Angel. The pile symbolizes the Yezidi God or "Khoda".

Gyavas told me she has about 55 such pieces of bedding but that she takes 20-25 up into the mountains.

A portion of the tent is walled off by a curtain. The space behind is used as the wash room. Pails of water from the spring or creek are collected and let to warm under the rays of the sun. The water is then used for the weekly bath.

A third, much smaller tent, is sometimes erected for the shepherd who is hired by the family. The man can make up to 20,000 AMD per month. While he doesn't sleep in the same tent as the family members, meals are shared.

Gyavas said that given the hardships experienced during the summer months and the inclement weather that sweeps over the camp, family members often get sick; especially the kids.

But they rarely return to town seeking medical help. "We're a hardy lot and only go to a doctor if it's a real emergency. We also used the herbs and other botanicals that grow up here," Gyavas said.

The woman said that along with the hardships there are also times of celebration. Young people get engaged up here and we often gather to watch TV, even though it's mostly the Turkish stations that come through clear.

Then too, visiting tourists to the mountains often stumble upon the Yezidi camps.

"We invite the in for a glass of fresh yoghurt and sometimes we'll slaughter a lamb in their honor," Gyavas said.

Evening had come and it was time to make the final packing preparations for the truck ride up into the mountains early next morning.

Every 15 minutes, the pile of mattresses was turned so that the fragrance of the fading light would remain within the God Khoda.

Also packed was a book by Avetik Isahakyan. Even up in the mountains the children mustn't forget to read.

Bahar then tucked a vial of perfume into one of the suitcases.

"Babies are born up there and we have to look our best at the festivities. And you never know when a bunch of tourists might show up. When they do, we also

 

 

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=34661&pid=281918&st=0entry281918

 

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=15712&st=0&p=194313&hl=arot&fromsearch=1entry194313

 

 

ՎԱՐԴԱՆ ԱՅԳԵԿՑԻ

 

ԱՌԱԿՆԵՐ

Այրի կինը և իր որդին

 

Մի այրի կին ուներ տաս այծ և մի որդի: Ամեն օր որդին այծերը տանում էր արոտ, և մայրն ամեն օր մի շերեփ ջուր էր լցնում կաթի մեջ ու փոխ էր տալիս հարևաններին: Եվ որդին մորն ասաց, թե ինչո՞ւ ես այդպես ջուր լցնում կաթի մեջ ու փոխ տալիս հարևաններին: Մայրն ասաց.

-Որդի՛, մեր կաթը քիչ է, նրա համար եմ անում, որ մեր կաթը մի քիչ ավելի լինի, որ ձմեռը մեզ թացան լինի:

Իսկ մի օր, երբ որդին այծերն արոտ էր տարել, երկնքում ծնվեց մի փոքր ամպ, անձրև եկավ, հեղեղ եղավ և այծերը սրբեց լցրեց գետը: Որդին տուն եկավ արևով ու դատարկ, ձեռքին միայն փայտը:

-Որդի՛, ո՞ւր են այծերը, և ինչո՞ւ դու այսօր արևով եկար:

Որդին ասաց.

-Մայրի՛կ, այն մի շերեփ ջուրը, որ խառնում էիր կաթին ու փոխ տալիս հարևաններին, հավաքվեց, հեղեղ դարձավ ու եկավ մեր այծերը տարավ, լցրեց գետը:

 

 

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Պարույր Սևակ

 

 

Երբ ցնդեցին մշուշ ու մեգ,

Արոտ ելան հոտ ու նախիր,

Եվ արևի կիզող վախից

Ծերպերի մեջ մտավ քամին,

Նախաճաշի տաքուկ ժամին

Մկրտիչն ու Կարոն գյուղից

Ձիեր նստած բարձրացան վեր`

Եկան ֆերմա:

-Տիրուհինե՛ր,

Բարով տեսանք: Ի՞նչ եք անում,

Ի՞նչ քեֆի եք,-ժպտաց Կարոն:

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See also the Armenian version for more pictures, but more so for interesting words and phrases;

http://hetq.am/arm/articles/2854/

Edited July 13, 2011 by Arpa

[Arpa]

See how they spell the name of those mountains SHINGALL that other sources spell as SINJAR.

http://www.beyondbordersphotography.com/p579203267

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjar

 

http://hetq.am/eng/news/56091/yezidis-march-in-yerevan-in-solidarity-with-their-compatriots-in-iraq.html

Yezidis March in Yerevan in Solidarity with Their Compatriots in Iraq

The Yezidi community of Armenia turned out in their hundreds in Yerevan today to march in solidarity with their compatriots in Iraq.

The marchers stopped in front of the embassies of the United States and France before gathering at the Armenian Government building on Republic Square.

Media reports from northern Iraq say that thousands of Yezidis had been trapped on Mount Shingal for more than a week, after fleeing from Islamic State (IS) militants who captured the town of Shingal, reportedly killing and kidnapping hundreds of Yezidis.

The total number of Yezidis and other religious and ethnic minorities who escaped to the mountain are estimated in the thousands.

Since the Islamic State does not consider the Yezidis to be People of the Book, they have been forced to convert to Islam or be killed.

Estimates place the Yezidi community in Armenia at around 40,000.

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In Armenian.;

http://hetq.am/arm/news/56091/ezdineri-boxoqi-erty-i-pashtpanutyun-iraqum-ochnchacvox-irenc-hayrenakicneri-lusankarner.html

Եզդիների բողոքի երթը՝ ի պաշտպանություն Իրաքում ոչնչացվող իրենց հայրենակիցների (լուսանկարներ)

Հարյուրավոր եզդիներ դուրս են եկել Երևանի փողոցներ՝ ի պաշտպանություն Իրաքի հյուսիսում գտնվող Սինջար գյուղի բնակիչների, որոնց զանգվածաբար ոչնչացնում են «Իրաքի ու Լևանտի իսլամական պետության» (ԻԼԻՊ) զինյալները: Եզդիներին պարտադրում են իսլամ ընդունել, դիմադրություն ցույց տվողների հանդեպ հաշվեհարդար են տեսնում. արդեն 30 եզդի սպանվել է:

Եզդիների բողոքի երթը կանգ առավ ԱՄՆ և Ֆրանսիայի դեսպանատների, ինչպես նաև ՀՀ կառավարության և ՄԱԿ-ի գրասենյակի մոտ:

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Related.

http://www.yerakouyn.com/?p=61335

An update. Yerevan has not delivered as promised.

http://hetq.am/eng/news/56105/yezidi-community-rep-armenian-government-hasnt-transferred-the-$50k-in-promised-humanitarian-aid-to-iraq.html

[Arpa]

VERRY INTERRESTING

Little known facts about the Yezidis.

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http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/91582178.jpg

ZotoAster aka Zarathustra

http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/91582178.jpg

 

http://nypost.com/2014/08/17/why-some-muslims-want-to-destroy-the-yazidis-by-genocide/

Why some Muslims want to destroy the Yazidis by genocide

By Amir TaheriModal Trigger

Displaced Yazidis re-enter Iraq from Syria on August 14thPhoto: Reuters

To hear President Obama tell it, one might think that recent bombing raids by the US against jihadist positions between Mosul and Erbil in northern Iraq have already removed the threat of extermination posed against the Yazidis, a religious minority driven out of its ancestral home by the Islamic State of self-styled Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Displaced Yazidis cross the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing in northern Iraq.Photo: Getty Images

However, several Yazidi spokesmen reached over the past few days insist that tens of thousands of people are still facing extermination and on Friday, 80 Yazidis were massacred by IS fighters.

Our people are dying of hunger, thirst and disease, says Magdi al-Yazidi. Those who have not left their homes are prisoners in their besieged villages around el-Qush and Shaikhan. They are simply coming to realize and old dream of fanatical Islamic rulers: wiping our community off the face of the earth.

It is not only in Iraq that the army of the Caliph Abu Bakr is positioning itself for the final solution to the Yazidis. The community is also facing extermination in parts of Syria, notably in Ras al-Ayn and Hessak.

The Islamic State self-styled Caliph Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiPhoto: AP

It has always been a dream of Islamic rulers to wipe us out, Emir Muawwyyah bin Ismail, the leader of the Yazidis, told me back in the 1980s when he was forced into exile by Saddam Hussein.

The Emir had ended up in Paris after a long trek out of Iraq through Syria. Hussein had given him a choice between death and exile after the Emir issued a statement banning Yazidis from joining the despots army for a war against Iran.

After an initial meeting with the Emir, I managed to persuade him to speak about his community, its history and the Yazidi faith. He did, thus ending almost 15 centuries of esoteric tradition under which Yazidis pretended to be some sort of Muslims.

The pretension was necessary to avoid genocide, he told me.

Our conversations lasted over some six months and resulted in a book published under the title To Us Spoke Zarathustra.

A portrait of the prophet Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism, a monotheistic religion that was the dominant religion in Persia before the Arab conquest.Photo: Getty Image

[/b]As far as fanatical Muslims are concerned, Yazidis must be classified among the heathen because they do not belong to any of the three Abraham **religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Under Islamic rules, Jews and Christians are regarded as people of the book and thus could live among Muslims provided they pay a protection fee known as dhimma. Even if they wanted to, Yazidis cannot make use of that provision because they regard themselves as followers of Zoroaster, a prophet of ancient Iranian peoples who preached around 700 BC.[/b]

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**So, now we are abrahanic? Who the hell is Abraham? Hi Gamo : I thought our ancestor was Apricot Haik, Hayik, Hayik Tsiranik not abraham? **

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The belief system starts with the assertion that there is but one God, variously known as Izad, Yazdan or Xweda (Khoda in Persian).

Their one God shares the basic traits of Ahura-Mazda, the Wise God of Zoroaster. It is Ahura-Mazda who decided that a world should be created. But he subcontracts the task to a demiurge figure known as Tavous Malek (The Peacock Angel) who, assisted by six other angels each representing an aspect of natural life, shape the world as man knows it. As might have been expected, the sub-contractors, not having Gods divine infallibility, make some mistakes which leads to the emergence of evil in the world.

The Faravahar, a popular symbol of Zoroastrianism.Photo: Getty Images

In that context, the Good God needs the help of human beings to fight evil in a series of three battles, at the end of which the fate of the universe is decided forever. Thus, the Yazidis faith is the only religion in which God needs help from human beings, a concept that scandalizes fanatical Muslims who regard Allah as omnipotent and infallible. The Yazidi god can enter into a conversation with man; Allah cannot.

Man could help god by becoming truly human, Yazidis assert. According to one of their proverbs: Just as the best sword is the sharpest, the best man is the most human.

A view of the Bajed Kadal refugee camp, south west of Dohuk, Iraq where displaced Yazidis are staying after fleeing the violence of Islamic State fighters.Photo: Reuters

A peaceful people opposed to violence and bloodshed, Yazidis believe that no cause is worth killing people for, something that scandalizes fanatical Muslims who regard the spread of The Only True Faith by sword as a duty and the man who does it as the Ghazi (Holy Warrior) who is assured a place in paradise.

Displaced Yazidis travel towards the Syrian border.Photo: Reuters

The Yazidis tradition of equality between men and women, including the rejection of polygamy, also scandalizes their fanatical Muslim neighbors.

Kurdish Peshmerga forces hand out water bottles to Yazidis as they cross the Iraqi-Syrian border.Photo: Getty Images

Arab Sunnis also hate Yazidis because of their language, a variety of Kurdish, itself one of the 18 Iranic languages still alive in Western Asia.

The Yazidis claim to be the oldest religious community with a continuous existence in its own land. That may well be the case, at least as far as he estimated 600,000 Yazidis who live in Iraq are concerned. There are a further 1.8 million Yazidis in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Transcaucasia not to mention almost a million others in exile in more than 50 countries across the globe.

Iraq has always been a mosaic of peoples and faith. Six decades ago, 20% of Baghdads population consisted of Jews. Today there are only six Jews in the whole of Iraq. The Armenia community has shrunk by almost 90% while other Christian communities are also shrinking. Caliph Abu Bakr s dream is to have an Iraq empty of all non-Muslims so that he could embark on his second phase of his purification by organizing genocide against Shiites regarded as deviant Muslims.

The Caliph dreams of a hecatomb in Iraq. He must be stopped.

 

**So, now we are abrahanic? Who the hell is abraham? Hi Gamo : I thought our ancestor was Apricotic Haik, not abraham. It is Hayik, Hayik Tsiranik?

Haik-

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Hayk_statue.JPG

abraham/avram, whoever the abrectam he may be.-

http://www.hiloicc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Abraham.jpg

Edited August 17, 2014 by Arpa

[Arpa]

I WISH WE AND THEY WOULD STOP REFERRING TO THAT ARMENIAN REPUBLIC OF ARTSAKH BY ITS FURKISH NAME

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http://www.gagrule.net/karabakh-willing-accept-territory-yezidis-refugees/

 

 

Karabakh willing to accept on its territory Yezidis refugees

Davit Babayan, spokesman of President Bako Sahakian Karabakh, yesterday expressed its willingness to grant asylum to Yezidis who were forced to flee their homes in parts of northern Iraq controlled by the Islamic state.

Davit Babayan mentioned the Yezidis as brothers faced genocide at the hands of Sunni insurgent groups.

The Armenian people can not be indifferent to what is currently done for Yazidis, said Babayan. The Yezidis are the only people who have become an integral part of the Armenian people.

Nagorno-Karabakh is ready for Yazidi refugees. Artsakh has many socio-economic problems, he said, using the traditional name of Karabakh. But if there are such requests we, as a state committed to democratic and humanitarian standards, we try to help as many people as we can.

Asked whether the Karabakh Armenians are willing to resettle Iraqi Yezidis in the territories under their control, Babayan said: If such requests, we will see how we can give them.

Officials in Armenia, home to a large community of Yezidis were more cautious. According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, no Iraqi Yezidi have fled or have sought asylum in the country so far.

Boris Murazi, a Yezidi activist, confirmed that. He argued that going in Armenia is not easy for his family because they can not receive Armenian visas at the border and have to make a long journey through Turkey and Iran and Georgia. In the words of Murazi, Iraqi Yazidis stayed away from Armenia so far also because of the delay of the reaction from the Armenian government to their suffering.

It was only on Monday that President Serzh Sargsyan expressed deep concern about the massacres and deportations of Iraqi Yezidis.

Better late than never, said Murazi. It is good that the authorities have realized that they can not be indifferent to the fate not only of the Yazidi, but also citizens of Armenia who demanded that authorities cease to be indifferent.

Indeed, a growing number of Armenians and the media asking Yerevan to take a more proactive civic activists. Several activists have set up a Facebook group to raise funds for loans to spend Iraqi Yezidis in Armenia.

Armenia should open its borders to refugees and Yezidis accept the largest possible number of them, said Bayandur Poghosian, member of the Help your brothers Yezidis. Poghosian acknowledged that the Armenian government is short of money to be able to help them financially. That is why, he says, activists are asking for private donations.

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http://news.am/eng/news/224790.html

 

 

Yazidis** thank Karabakh for offering assistance

15:21, 20.08.2014 Region: World News, Armenia, Karabakh, Middle East Theme: Politics

YEREVAN. The Yazidi Rescue Committee, which assembles the Yazidis who have suffered from the genocide and registers the names of the missing Yazidis, was established fifteen days ago in Iraqi Kurdistan (Northern Iraq).

Midia-Shangal Yazidi National Union NGO Board Chairman Amo Sharoyan stated the aforesaid at a press conference on Wednesday.

And as per vice-chairman Gyurjis Kochoyan of the board, the committees main task is to invite the attention of the superpowers to the ongoing genocide against the Yazidi people.

Sharoyan informed that according to their data, about 10,000 Yazidis are either killed in, or are missing from, the town of Sinjar (Shangal) in Northern Iraq.

Amo Sharoyan also thanked the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic government, which had announced that it stands ready to provide asylum for the Yazidi refugees.

I express my deepest gratitude, since, despite its own problems, this legal subject stands ready to help the Yazidi people, he said

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http://asbarez.com/126102/armenian-yazidis-blame-erdogan-for-genocide-of-iraqi-kin/

Armenian Yazidis Blame Erdogan for Genocide of Iraqi Kin

Iraqi Yazidis, fleeing from persecution by Islamic State militants in their home region of Sinjar, walk toward the Syrian border

 

YEREVANSpeaking at a press conference in Yerevan on Tuesday, the Chairman of the Yazidi Union of Armenia, Aziz Tamoyan, said Yazidis in Iraq are facing a genocide, voicing deep dismay at the lack of interest shown by world leaders toward the plight of his co-ethnics and the possibility of their extermination.

Another Armenian Yazidi leader Bro Hasanyan traced the predicament of his co-ethnics in Iraq to the actions of Turkey and former prime minister and newly elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose efforts in aiding and abetting Islamic State fighters led to their presence and power in Iraq.

A genocide is being carried out against the Yazidis in the 21st century and the President of Turkey Erdoğan, former President of Iraq Talabani, and the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Barzani are responsible for it, Hasanyan said.

Meanwhile, on the same day as the press conference, the government in Stepanakert announced that Artsakh is ready to welcome Yazidis fleeing persecution in Iraq.

Davit Babayan, the spokesman for Artsakh President Bako Sahakian, referred to the Yazidis as brotherly people facing genocide at the hands of radical Sunni insurgents, RFE/RLs Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) reported.

The Armenian people cannot be indifferent to what is now being done to the Yazidi people, Babayan told Azatutyun.am. The Yazidis are the only people who have become an integral part of the Armenian people.

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is therefore willing to take in Yazidi refugees, he said. Artsakh has many socioeconomic problems, he said. But if there are such applications we, as a state committed to democratic and humanitarian norms, will try to help those people as much as we can.

** Please note how they spell it as YAZIDI.

In the Book Zoroastrianism in Armenia by James Russel, we see YAZT/YAZATA/on numerous times. It is suggested that the Armenian word AZAT/AZAD is derived from it, loosely meaning FREE, which in fact means without human parentage/(zadeh). See Persian surnames like Sarrafi***zadeh, i.e born of a moneychanger

***Arabic. Hi Ara SARAFan - **** Dies he know that his surname means money changer loumayapokh լումայա փոխ ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_Sarafian

 

****To not confuse wirth SAFARian , (those other dogs spell it as sefer. another Arabic word to mean voyage/trip.

http://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Նվեր_Սաֆարյան