Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

John Watkins · 09 Jul 2010, 00:52 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:52:16 -0400
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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Ooh, this is excellent stuff.  Thank you for this.

Someone like me (but smarter) should take this insight and run with it into
a full-on application of Melek Taus to other Wolfean demons.  If Wolfe used
the figure once, did he use it again?  If not, why not?

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Mr Thalassocrat <thalassocrat08 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Finally got around to tracking something down which had been nagging me.
> When I first came to the conclusion that Tzadkiel was a liar and a no-good,
> it put me vaguly in mind of a satanic peacock-angel that I'd read of (in a
> Patrick O'Brien novel?) in connection with some middle-Eastern sect.
> Tzadkiel's eye-wings always struck me as peacock-ish.
>
> Anyway, here he is, the Peacock Angel of the Yazidis:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus  The Peacock Angel of the
> Yazidis. He has much the same story as Satan/Iblis ("the liar"), except for
> the Yazidis, it's a *good* thing that he didn't accept the favored status of
> Man.
>
> Wouldn't surprise me at all if Wolfe had this bird and the Yazidi's in
> mind.
>
> No, I don't think that BOTNS is intended as a Yazidi gospel :)
>
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