Stories
the narratives it tells itself
The world from a pearl.
Before the world, God was alone with a pearl, and the pearl burst into creation; the seven angels were set over it, the Peacock Angel at their head, and Lalish is where the world first solidified. Yazidi cosmology survives entirely in song.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseOral qawls; two disputed sacred books