Yezidi representatives visited our Youth Exchange

Two representatives of Yezidi community living in Armenia visited us. The vice-president of the organization "Yezidi National Union", Khdr Hajoyan, shared their unknown beliefs and traditions. They talked about Melek Taus, the holy pickock that the worship, who has been identified like Satan in other cultures, trying to make people think that Yezidis are a Satanic sect, just to discredit this religion. This believe is not true because Yezedis doesn´t have the concept of Satan that other religions created. Furthermor, they don´t believe in the notion of bad. They explained us how their three casts works in issues like weddings, forbidden between two people who belongs to different casts.

After the presentation, Khdr Hajoyan played and sang traditional Yezedi songs and they pretended a yezedi traditional wedding between two of our Slovenian participants.

We will keep on knowing Yezidi culture, this time, from inside: they invited us to their New Year cellebration, which will take place this week in an Armenian cementery.