Êzidî & Laleş - Images & Video

[Diri]

@Sicpit


I didn't see this before now - but I'm taking you up on that offer...

Please upload the images you have of Laleş! It would be realy amazing to see larger and better images of it... There are so many bad quality pictures on the net...

So you have been to Laleş?

[sicpit]

@Sicpit


I didn't see this before now - but I'm taking you up on that offer...

Please upload the images you have of Laleş! It would be realy amazing to see larger and better images of it... There are so many bad quality pictures on the net...

So you have been to Laleş?

I have not been to Lalis:'( ib Xwede I will have enough money to get to the holy city of Lalish. Here are the Yezidi and Lalish pics I have on my computer. I am glad I didn't post them til now, because I have met some Ezidi who emailed me some really nice pics. Here they are










































































































































Sorry if any of these picture are repeated, but I think they are nice

[Diri]

WOW


Such beautiful pictures! I am astonished at how beautiful some of them realy are... Truly one must sit and admire them...

Here is my contribution to making this thread more interesting:

Hesen Şerîf - "Beyta Laleş" music clip @ YouTube

And

Bilind Ibrahîm - "Wey Dil" music clip @ YouTube

And

Koma Zerdeştê Kal - "Em Zerdeştîne" music clip @ YouTube

And

Xemdar - "Şerfedîne" music clip @ YouTube

These are all Êzidî singers - singing songs about the Êzidî faith...

Content of videos:
#1) Shows many of their rituals in Laleş (baptizing, praying, lighting the fires etc.)
#2) Êzidî boys and girls dancing in their traditional clothes
#3) Sings about Tawûsê Melek (they call themselves "Zerdeştî" - but in their eyes it's the same as being Êzidî)
#4) Traditional Êzidî song about their faith - shows footage from Şêxan

Thank you Sicpit - a dozen times - for those beautiful pictures! May I have your permission to post them on another forum?

[sicpit]

WOW


Such beautiful pictures! I am astonished at how beautiful some of them realy are... Truly one must sit and admire them...

Here is my contribution to making this thread more interesting:

Hesen Şerîf - "Beyta Laleş" music clip @ YouTube

And

Bilind Ibrahîm - "Wey Dil" music clip @ YouTube

And

Koma Zerdeştê Kal - "Em Zerdeştîne" music clip @ YouTube

And

Xemdar - "Şerfedîne" music clip @ YouTube

These are all Êzidî singers - singing songs about the Êzidî faith...

Content of videos:
#1) Shows many of their rituals in Laleş (baptizing, praying, lighting the fires etc.)
#2) Êzidî boys and girls dancing in their traditional clothes
#3) Sings about Tawûsê Melek (they call themselves "Zerdeştî" - but in their eyes it's the same as being Êzidî)
#4) Traditional Êzidî song about their faith - shows footage from Şêxan

Thank you Sicpit - a dozen times - for those beautiful pictures! May I have your permission to post them on another forum?

They are not my pictures, they were either fowarded to me through email, or I saved them on my computer using the mighty right click So that being said, of course you can show these pictures to whomever you like.

I love Hesen Sherif, I downloaded a bunch of his songs on a kurdish website, really good music. Bilind ibrahim I don't know to much, but I love the song we dilo.

My friend told me that Hesen was a Muslim though, and that Beyta Lalish was a song in tribute of kurdish religion, Yezidi. I don't know because I can't understand a thing he is saying


I have an account with a very dead forum(for english) called Ezdi.info, well I randomly got a email with a link to download all of Koma Zedeste(sp) album, I haven't had a chance to really listen to it all.


-Tausi Melek ib Tiri be(correct me if I used wrong spelling or doesnt' make sense)

[Diri]

Come on - I know it takes time to upload all those images...


Thank you for putting them up!

I'll check out Ezdi.info... There is Mala Ezidiyan - which is based in Germany, where they have a large community... They have a live chat! I will invite you as soon as I find back to it - and I'll PM when I do...


And no - that sentence didn't make much sense to me, sorry...



No I'm pretty sure Hesen Şerîf is Êzidî... I'll check it out - but I am very very sure that's what he is... Oh no wait a minute... In his song: Beyta Laleş, he sings "We" - so he includes himself... The song basically is as you said a tribute to Êzidî religion - but he sings "We preserved our language and religion" - so he wouldn't sing that as a Muslim... There we go - that one's in the bag!

[sicpit]

Come on - I know it takes time to upload all those images...


Thank you for putting them up!

I'll check out Ezdi.info... There is Mala Ezidiyan - which is based in Germany, where they have a large community... They have a live chat! I will invite you as soon as I find back to it - and I'll PM when I do...


And no - that sentence didn't make much sense to me, sorry...



No I'm pretty sure Hesen Şerîf is Êzidî... I'll check it out - but I am very very sure that's what he is... Oh no wait a minute... In his song: Beyta Laleş, he sings "We" - so he includes himself... The song basically is as you said a tribute to Êzidî religion - but he sings "We preserved our language and religion" - so he wouldn't sing that as a Muslim... There we go - that one's in the bag!

well I will have to take your word for it, because I can't understand much words in Kurmanci:'(

I was trying to say Melek Taus be with you, my friend told me how to say this, but I forgot. Kurmaci is a hard language to learn.

[Diri]

Come on - I know it takes time to upload all those images...


Thank you for putting them up!

I'll check out Ezdi.info... There is Mala Ezidiyan - which is based in Germany, where they have a large community... They have a live chat! I will invite you as soon as I find back to it - and I'll PM when I do...


And no - that sentence didn't make much sense to me, sorry...



No I'm pretty sure Hesen Şerîf is Êzidî... I'll check it out - but I am very very sure that's what he is... Oh no wait a minute... In his song: Beyta Laleş, he sings "We" - so he includes himself... The song basically is as you said a tribute to Êzidî religion - but he sings "We preserved our language and religion" - so he wouldn't sing that as a Muslim... There we go - that one's in the bag!

well I will have to take your word for it, because I can't understand much words in Kurmanci:'(

I was trying to say Melek Taus be with you, my friend told me how to say this, but I forgot. Kurmaci is a hard language to learn.

OH But of course I would have understood it had it not been for you messing up the "bi" in the first part... But I was trying to read it in English pronounciation...

Here is how it should be:

Kirmancî: "Tawisê Melek bi tere be"
English pro.: "Thaaw'se Malak b tara ba"

But you are German, right? So in German pronounciation: "Tawöse Melek be tere be"

By the way - I didn't know untill like a week ago that you are German... Very nice! Das ist sehr gut mein freund! Ich spreche ein bischen deutch aber nicht so gut wie eine deutcher spracht! Sorry for the spellings!

[sicpit]

Come on - I know it takes time to upload all those images...


Thank you for putting them up!

I'll check out Ezdi.info... There is Mala Ezidiyan - which is based in Germany, where they have a large community... They have a live chat! I will invite you as soon as I find back to it - and I'll PM when I do...


And no - that sentence didn't make much sense to me, sorry...



No I'm pretty sure Hesen Şerîf is Êzidî... I'll check it out - but I am very very sure that's what he is... Oh no wait a minute... In his song: Beyta Laleş, he sings "We" - so he includes himself... The song basically is as you said a tribute to Êzidî religion - but he sings "We preserved our language and religion" - so he wouldn't sing that as a Muslim... There we go - that one's in the bag!

well I will have to take your word for it, because I can't understand much words in Kurmanci:'(

I was trying to say Melek Taus be with you, my friend told me how to say this, but I forgot. Kurmaci is a hard language to learn.

OH But of course I would have understood it had it not been for you messing up the "bi" in the first part... But I was trying to read it in English pronounciation...

Here is how it should be:

Kirmancî: "Tawisê Melek bi tere be"
English pro.: "Thaaw'se Malak b tara ba"

But you are German, right? So in German pronounciation: "Tawöse Melek be tere be"

By the way - I didn't know untill like a week ago that you are German... Very nice! Das ist sehr gut mein freund! Ich spreche ein bischen deutch aber nicht so gut wie eine deutcher spracht! Sorry for the spellings!

I am German this is true, unfortunately my granpa never taught my Dad German for fear that they would think my Dad was a Nazi. My granpa was in the states durring WWII, and I am sure people treated him personally as America's enemy. People can be so prejudice and stupid... Sorry what did you say?

[Diri]

I just said "That is very good my friend! I speak some German, but not as good as a German speaks (German)"...

I am sorry to hear that...

But do you know what I thought when I read that about your grandfather not teaching your father German to not be associated with the Nazi?

I thought about the thousands of Kurdish families which don't teach Kurdish to their children in Turkey's Kurdistan - because they are afraid of being associated with the PKK and with separatism and therefore be discriminated against - in the schools, universities, job marked etc...

It's an effective means of ethnic cleansing... That's what it is...

[sicpit]

I just said "That is very good my friend! I speak some German, but not as good as a German speaks (German)"...

I am sorry to hear that...

But do you know what I thought when I read that about your grandfather not teaching your father German to not be associated with the Nazi?

I thought about the thousands of Kurdish families which don't teach Kurdish to their children in Turkey's Kurdistan - because they are afraid of being associated with the PKK and with separatism and therefore be discriminated against - in the schools, universities, job marked etc...

It's an effective means of ethnic cleansing... That's what it is...

yup, my friend Karzan, said he found a family Ezidi that didn't speak kurmanci, only arabic... wtf! Oh well, I should go learn german, maybe I will

[Diri]

I just said "That is very good my friend! I speak some German, but not as good as a German speaks (German)"...

I am sorry to hear that...

But do you know what I thought when I read that about your grandfather not teaching your father German to not be associated with the Nazi?

I thought about the thousands of Kurdish families which don't teach Kurdish to their children in Turkey's Kurdistan - because they are afraid of being associated with the PKK and with separatism and therefore be discriminated against - in the schools, universities, job marked etc...

It's an effective means of ethnic cleansing... That's what it is...

yup, my friend Karzan, said he found a family Ezidi that didn't speak kurmanci, only arabic... wtf! Oh well, I should go learn german, maybe I will

If you go to Laleş and Badînan (the province which in Laleş is situated) you'll find that many have been assimilated... Not just Êzidî - but also Muslim Kurds... They use SO many Arabic words in their speech... It's all because they only had Arabic education in schools because of Saddam - and then at home they would speak a broken Kurdish - and mix in words they learned at school... :S

Same with everywhere else in Kurdistan - because we have no educational institutions... Except thank Xuda we do now have something in Southern Kurdistan - which will, hopefully, rub over on the rest!

I'm off to bed now - take care and have a pleasent evening...

Pleasure as always my friend!

[sicpit]

This is the video I made for a song called Melek Taus by Therion. They are really good opera/progressive band. They sing mostly about indigenious religions and cultures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCD7hPhBTOQ

[Marie K.]

the pictures of yezedis are very nice!!!!!!!

[sicpit]

the pictures of yezedis are very nice!!!!!!!

Ezidi is a beautiful religion, with beautiful people, but even Ezidi has it's assholes.

[KCF]

Thank you very much brother Diri for this thread.I am yezidi-kurd.