This religion has been derisively called “devil worship” due to conflation between its highest angel and Satan, who both refused to bow before Adam when ordered by God. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this ethno-religion whose adherents worship the Peacock Angel, Melek Taus (“tah-OOSE”).
ANSWER: Yazidism [or Sharfadin; or Şerfedîn; prompt on Kurd religion]
[10e] Due to their association with immortality, peacocks surround one of these objects “of life” in Christian iconography of the Garden of Eden. Prior to the Fall, Eve ate the fruit of the other of these objects “of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”
ANSWER: trees [or ‘ēṣīm; or eitzim; or lignum; or ligna; accept Tree of Life; accept Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil]
[10m] This figure described the “wonderful creation of the Peacock” in a sermon compiled in Nahj al-Balāgha, which also defended his position as Muḥammad’s mawlā as declared at Ghadīr Khumm.
ANSWER: Ali [or ‘Alī ibn ’Abī Ṭālib]
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