Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

David Stockhoff · 12 Jul 2010, 23:21 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:21:45 -0400
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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Well, Tzadkiel is the demiurge. There's no doubt about that at 
all---he's the highest of the low, not the lowest of the high. And 
Christian dualism was imported straight from Persia, so ....

He's not Satan though---that's merely a Muslim insult.

I doubt it was Patrick O'Brien, but I'm curious as to the reference. 
David Chacko? Edward D. Hoch?

Mr Thalassocrat 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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