Yazidi cosmology has God create seven angels and delegate the world's care to them, with Melek Taus at their head — a structure closer to Gnostic and Zoroastrian patterns than to its Muslim and Christian neighbors. The seven are periodically incarnated in holy figures. God, in this arrangement, is not absent but has genuinely handed over the running of things, which makes Yazidism's practical religious attention overwhelmingly angelic.