<div>Ooh, this is excellent stuff. Thank you for this.</div>
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<div>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?<br><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Mr Thalassocrat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thalassocrat08@gmail.com">thalassocrat08@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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. </div>
<div><br>Anyway, here he is, the Peacock Angel of the Yazidis: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus</a> 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. </div>
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<div>Wouldn't surprise me at all if Wolfe had this bird and the Yazidi's in mind. </div>
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<div>No, I don't think that BOTNS is intended as a Yazidi gospel :)</div>
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