Yezidis is a small Middle Eastern religion with ancient origins. They worship Lucifer in the form of a peacock. Thus they have often been called 'Satanic' or 'devil-worshippers'. But they do not consider Lucifer to be rebellious or evil, unlike Western followers of Satanism; thus the term is inaccurate.

Historically, the monotheistic Yezidis are a religious minority of the Kurds. Purportedly, they have existed since [2,000 B.C.]?. Yezidi belief may have been been tied to Mithraism. Prior to the rise of Islam, it may have been the original religion of the Kurds.

Sheik-Adi Ibin Mustafa in about 1162 AD radically changed the Yezidi religion, so that some people believe the previous form of belief was in fact, a different religion from what is currently called Yezidi belief.

As a conveniently distant religious belief, many non-Yezidi people have written about them, and ascribed facts to their beliefs which have dubious historical validity. The Yezidis have been claimed as an influence on Aleister Crowley's Thelema.

The Yezidis can be compared with the Process Church of the Final Judgment, in that both have been considered Satanic, based on their worship of Lucifer and/or Satan, but are arguably not, since they believe that these once evil deities have repentented and our now good -- real Satanists would either claim they are still evil, or were never evil to begin with. (However, this is the limit of the similarity between the Yezidis and the Process Church -- the two religions have very little else in common.)

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