As life is about love and the pursuit of happiness you know it's not about the
pursuit of un-happiness!
Lovers, love and I am a lover type person, love sick, as love is like the chocolate cake,
you miss it when it's gone. Two crazies make a right so let us have cake! *Note Song!
~~~~Awesome Kahlua Cake
Ingredients:
1 (18 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup vegetable oil or 1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup water
4 eggs
3/4 cup Kahlua
1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
1 (12 ounce) package chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Glaze
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 -4 tablespoons Kahlua
Directions:
Set oven to 350°F.
Set oven rack to second lowest position.
Generously grease and flour a bundt pan.
In a large bowl combine the cake mix with
pudding mix, sour cream, oil, water, eggs, Kahlua and cinnamon; beat
until well blended.
Stir chocolate chips and walnuts.
Pour into a greased and floured bundt pan pan.
Bake at 350°F for 45-60 minutes, or until the cake tests done.
For the glaze; mix confectioners sugar starting
with 2 tablespoons Kahlua until smooth adding in more Kahlua until
desired consistency is achieved.
Combine cake mix, pudding, sour cream, oil, water, and eggs
in electric mixer with paddle attachment. Beat together on medium for 5
minutes until fluffy and thoroughly combined.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Pour into cake pans. Depending on size, bake for 25 minutes
(for 6 inch cake) or until toothpick inserted comes out clean (you may
have some chocolate on toothpick from the chips). Increase baking time
for larger cake.
NOTE: If you want a stronger Jack Daniels flavor, you can
add 1/4 cup to the cake batter as well as the fudge icing. Or add more
to the fudge icing (add additional chocolate chips too so the icing
doesn't thin out too much).
Let cake cool.
In a medium saucepan, combine butter, sugar, and evaporated milk.
Stir together until rolling boil and time for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and add in chocolate chips and Jack Daniels.
If you found it why leave? There is a need in life to be a lover of life.
Lovers entwined a refection of quantum entanglement a point of the
butterfly effect. "In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive
dependence
on initial conditions in which a small change in one state
of a
deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a
later state."
Puts light on the desperation of life today. Longing to hear I'm On My Way
coming back to that small change because it was a big change the small change!
It's a matter of what is valued in life and the recognition of the meaningful
markers in life that point the way. Lovers of life are lovers... More than one to
love life? Life has to love you back it's not a one way road!
Going one way is a dead end, there is that time to make that U-Turn in life
as a life to love stands there waiting for you to make that U-Turn...
Love these days have been on a change for a long time.
Other than a destiny connection, in that is a good thing as it's
good to know something of your destiny vs being clueless but...
Love has new meanings as is looses it's boundaries. As a opening of a door, a light!
Love is good for you and stale love is stale... More like inbreeding as the longer
the marriage / relationship is the more it's the same as in inbreeding with
the less diverse chromosomes. Things ends up being sickly! HAW!
Just add more chromosomes to fix it!
Being open in a relationship is good as it's not fair to keep any bird in a cage
for a long time. It's just the point for all to just sit down and talk make agreements,
who is who to who. It might be TMI, but the point is to be real and talk!
Anyone that would be in that talk would know making agreements and etc
is just a start in trust building. As all involved work to adhere to the agreements
knowing that as all goes down that road the trust is being built. In time, in time!
It's a long term aim and should be as the effort to talk is a big thing!
About the Jealously? That goes away in time as everyone talks and changes
what is doing it in the first place. It's about the value to see the other happy
and not off the cliff. That is the gold in the worth of the effort to build trust.
In building the Monogamish to Polyamory it's just a point of seeing your other
and you happy. Being open to each other is needed!
It's all a fact making all better and knowing, it's ok, it's ok!
~~~~~Meet the Monogamish:
by Dan Savage
Why do most people assume that all nonmonogamous relationships are
destined to fail? Because we only hear about the ones that do. If a
three-way or an affair was a factor in a divorce or breakup, we hear all
about it. But we rarely hear from happy couples who aren't monogamous,
because they don't want to be perceived as dangerous sex maniacs who are
destined to divorce.
This state of affairs—couples who experimented with
nonmonogamy and wound up divorced won't shut up; couples who
experimented with nonmonogamy and are still together won't speak
up—allows smug and insecure monogamists to run around insisting that
there's no such thing as happy, stable monogamish couples.
"You know lots of couples who have had three-ways and flings who aren't divorced," I told the skeptics a few weeks ago, "you just don't know you know them."
In an effort to introduce the skeptics to some happily monogamish
couples, I invited coupled people who'd had successful flings, affairs,
three-ways, and swinging experiences to write in and share their
stories. The response was overwhelming—I may do a book—and I'm turning
over the rest of this week's column to their stories
My husband and I have issues
like any couple, but I still smile when I see him walk into a room, and
he still takes my hand when we're walking down the street. For the past
seven years, we have been "monogamish." It started off with a discussion
of "If you ever cheat on me and it's a one-time thing, I wouldn't want
to know." Then, when he turned 40, we had a threesome with a female
friend. When I actually saw him "in the moment," I didn't have the
jealous feelings I had always feared. There is no question that our
relationship is our first priority, but just the possibility of a little
strange now and then makes him feel like a stud. (And I reap the
benefits!) I don't much care for sex without emotion and affection, so
my flings have been rather limited. We haven't told our families or more
than a couple of friends. I don't want to deal with the judgment of
others.
For the first five years
of my marriage, everything was great: lots of sex, both GGG, lots of
love. Then my wife's libido failed. Whatever the problem was, she
couldn't articulate it. After a year where we'd had sex twice, I reached
out to someone else. I used Craigslist and I was honest: I explained
that I had no intention of leaving my wife and that I was looking for
someone in a situation similar to mine. It took months to find the right
person. We struck up a years-long affair. At the same time, I had a
wonderful-yet-sexless marriage. Then, after nearly four years, a strange
thing happened: My wife's libido came back strong. To this day, she
cannot explain why it left or why it came back. With the reason for my
affair gone, I ended things with my fuck buddy. And you know what? Years
of honest talk made this easy. She understood; we went our separate
ways. So I had a four-year affair
without getting caught. Here's how I pulled it off: I never told anyone
about it ever, I chose a partner who wanted exactly what I wanted, we
didn't film ourselves (as hot as that sounded), we used condoms, I kept
my computer clear of any evidence, and we never called or texted each
other.
My husband and I
are monogamish but also LMGs—legally married gays. We feel tremendous
pressure to be perfect. The thing is, we are perfect. We love each
other, we support each other, and we have amazing sex with each
other—and the occasional cameo performer, who is always treated with
respect. (We have a rule about not inviting someone into our bedroom who
we wouldn't be friends with outside the bedroom.) That said, the fact
that Ron and Nancy down the street are swingers will raise eyebrows, but
it won't impact the perceived legitimacy of mixed-gender marriage. But
if Ed and Ted happen to invite a third into their bedroom, that would
prove the gays are destroying marriage/the country/the fabric of the
universe. Even other gays get judgmental. So, at least for now, our
monogamishness is on a strictly need-to-know basis. And who needs to
know? Just our sex-positive doctor and the occasional hot third who gets
a golden ticket into our bedroom.
I agree with you
that we rarely hear about successful marriages that are open. How do I
know? I just discovered that my parents are swingers—and they have been
married for 26 years!
My husband, almost exactly
10 years older than me, confessed a cuckold fetish to me shortly before
our fifth anniversary. I said no, but a seed was planted: Whenever I
would develop a crush on another man, it would occur to me that I could
sleep with him if I wanted to. Five years later, my boyfriend of two
years, who happens to be exactly 10 years younger than me, was one of
the guests at our 10-year anniversary party. My boyfriend is a
good-looking grad student who adores me and values my husband's advice
about his education and career plans. He treats my husband with the
perfect blend of affection and contempt. ("Gratitude and attitude," my
boyfriend calls it.) I enjoy my boyfriend, but I love my husband more
than ever. My husband is not allowed to have sex with other women (he
doesn't want to, anyway), and he's not allowed to have sex with me
without my boyfriend's permission (which he usually—though not
always—gets). Our families would be appalled. We simply don't live in a
part of the country, or move in social circles, where we could be honest
about any of this with anyone.
From the outside,
my husband and I look like a boring vanilla married couple. In fact,
people have included me in judgmental conversations about open
relationships. But the truth is, for nearly as long as we've been
together (three-plus years), we've had a semiopen relationship. My
husband is bi. When he told me after a few months of dating, years of
Savage Love reading helped me to keep an open mind. Long story short: We
worked out rules that were mutually agreeable. Now he can hook up
safely with guys and come home to a loving wife with whom he can be
completely honest.
I'm a happily married woman...
and so is my girlfriend. Maybe it's cowardly of us, but no matter how
simple our relationship seems to us, the people we care about would not
understand. Yes, we do this with our husbands' blessing. (We even
double-date from time to time!) No, there's nothing lacking in our
marriages. Our parents, relatives, children, friends, and coworkers know
we're close. But I don't see the need to tell anyone the entire truth. I
was on the fence about sending this e-mail—that's how little fuss we
make about it. Then I thought, if I do send it, and if enough people
send their stories, maybe one day we can go public and it won't be a big
fucking deal. That'd be awesome.
~~~~~New Sexual Revolution: Polyamory May Be Good for You
Jealousy & love: One thing that seems to unite the polyamorous community is a real
enthusiasm for digging into emotions. Honesty, openness and
communication are cornerstones for polyamorous relationships, Holmes has
found.
"They're talking a lot, they're negotiating a lot, they're bringing their feelings to the table a lot," he said. It's this intensive conversation that might be wise for monogamous
couples to emulate, Holmes said. His work also suggests that basic
emotions work very differently in polyamorous relationships.
Take jealousy. If you ask most people how they'd feel if their partner
had sex with or fell in love with someone else, the responses would be
pretty negative: fear, anger, jealousy, rejection. Ask a polyamorous
person the same question, and they're more likely to tell you they'd be
thrilled. It's a concept called "compersion," which means the joy felt
when a partner discovers love outside of you. It's similar to the
feeling the typical person might get after finding out their best friend
scored her dream job, Holmes said. But in this case, the happiness
stems from a lover's external relationships.
That finding challenges much of what traditional psychological research has established about how jealousy works.
"It turns out that, hey, people are not reacting with jealousy when
their partner is flirting with someone else," Holmes said. "Good science
tests theories and predictions … you need to see if it holds up even in
extreme situations."
In another example of polyamorous people potentially turning typical
psychological reactions upside-down, Holmes conducted a preliminary
analysis of about 200 polyamorous people, asking them about feelings of
jealousy. Typically, he said, you'd expect to see that women are more
anxious about emotional infidelity, while men worry more about sexual infidelity.
That wasn't the case among the polyamorous individuals. In fact, there
were no gender differences in rates of sexual and emotional jealousy to
be found.
None of this suggests that polyamorous people are somehow immune to
jealousy, Holmes said. But when jealously does occur, it's discussed.
The person feeling jealous is encouraged to examine their own psyche to
find out what's bothering them and which of their needs aren't being
met. Then the pair (or triad, or quad) can negotiate boundaries.
Do you have the right to drive a car without insurance making others pay for it?
If you have the right to not have health insurance then we all should drive cars
with no insurance also! "Sorry, my bad!"
Over all the time Obama Care was working on coming to life.
Many did not seem to care or have a clue to ask why it's needed in the
first place. To keep away the uninsured from killing the system.
Getting rid of Obama Care now would make 200 million up to 300 million+
uninsured. Ask a Tea party type what they want to replace Obama Care with.
"Nothing!"
For one Obama Care won't be there to put money to keep the price of
medicines down and the removal of preexisting conditions with the 180+
million of working class people like me would find out there is no
Obama Care and would drop their insurance to get a bigger paycheck.
60 or a 100 million drop from them, thats enough to drive the price
of insurance and medicine added to the fact many will ask why do
I have insurance when I can't afford to use it! All over low pay.
Not to the fact of when the stock holders of the
pharmaceutical industries sees the uninsured and the
lack of sales and insurance companies loss of 60+ million putting
money in makes a good time to sale your stocks.
Bad for everyone else like in a cold or Ebola season full of uninsured
people wanting a bigger pay check to live and buy food!
You don't have a right to drive a car without insurance.
When you crash which you will in time, it happens,
you have no car insurance so who ends up paying the bill?
The people with car insurance have to pay more to cover the cost.
~~~~When do you pay the deductible on your car insurance policy? Your vehicle has been hit by an unidentified third party (hit & run)
This
is an unfortunate situation to face. If you do not have Collision
coverage on your
car insurance policy, you may not be covered for this
type of loss.
In this situation, you will have to pay for any repairs,
or replacement of your
car at your expense. However, if you are able
to identify the person who hit your car,
the loss would then be covered
under the Direct Compensation portion of your
insurance policy, for
which you do not have to pay a deductible.
The person who hit your car
must also have an insurance policy for this
type of coverage to apply. http://www.insurancehotline.com/when-do-you-pay-the-deductible-on-your-car-insurance-policy
The same point is in health care in being uninsured and the cost.
No one tells you that you have to have a car that's good but
about property and who pays for damages when you have no insurance
makes others pay for it. Same for no health insurance there are damages
that makes others pay for it.
You do not have a right to not have insurance and make others pay for it.
Why not rob a bank and get it over with? Stupidly is not a point of view.
Life is better with insurance why live in a third world country?
So cost to cost not having Obama Care is like no car insurance.
It makes others pay for it!
~~~~Why are so many Americans uninsured?
Insurance is expensive, and few people can afford to buy
it on their
own. Most Americans obtain health insurance coverage through an
employer,
but not all workers are offered employer-sponsored coverage.
Also, not all who are offered coverage by an employer can afford
their
share of the premiums. Medicaid and the Children’s
Health Insurance
Program (CHIP) cover many low-income children,
but eligibility for
parents and adults without dependent children is limited,
leaving many
without affordable coverage. http://kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population
~~~~Driving Without Valid / Sufficient Insurance
In every state, drivers are required to demonstrate the ability to
pay up to a
certain amount to cover their liability if they are involved
in a motor vehicle accident.
These laws are sometimes called "financial
responsibility" laws, because while not
all states specifically require
that drivers carry liability insurance from an insurance
company, all
states do require some form of proof of financial responsibility.
Despite
these laws, one in seven drivers in America (13.8% of all behind the
wheel)
takes to the road without insurance, the Insurance Research
Council reports.
The industry group says the rate of uninsured motorists
varies widely from 4%
in Massachusetts to 28% in Mississippi. In
states that do not specifically require
motor vehicle drivers to show
proof of liability insurance in order to comply with
"financial
responsibility" laws, other acceptable forms of proving responsibility. http://traffic.findlaw.com/traffic-tickets/driving-without-valid-sufficient-insurance.html
There needs to be changes to the system as it is.
Workers need to be supported more!
Your hardship is from your Governor who fights the system.
Call your Governor to except Medicaid expansion!
You need to get your voice out!
For the poor I need to advise about the getting rid of Obama Care
and Medicaid going into a block grant. This will effect the poor
badly the main point is all the uninsured and ending Medicaid expansion.
If Trump goes back to a Healthcare system like what was before
ObamaCare it was the point around 45.7 million uninsured and
without setting a mandate to have insurance and the lack of subsidies
to help people afford their healthcare they will drop their insurance for a bigger
paycheck and drop because they just can't afford anything at all.
"From the moment President Obama and the Democrats began pushing for
healthcare
reform, they repeatedly emphasized the notion that
approximately 45.7
million Americans—roughly 15% of the country's
population—lacked insurance."
"The implication was that the existing system, based on private insurance
companies,
was failing, and that the government could do a much better
job of regulating and
administering healthcare." http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1957
Now put that number back by getting rid of Obama Care like it didn't happen.
But reset to a more unstable time with more people not being able to afford their
insurance. 45.7 million is more pointed 60, 70 or 150 million.
"private insurance
companies, was failing" with 45 million? What is a 60 million do!
Also keep in mind there are 180 million working class people with insurance.
And the point many will do drop their insurance for a bigger paycheck.
well 80 million out of 180 million that is real that is the main threat!
Why have it if I cant get my medicine and pay the cost of insurance.
Have insurance but can't afford to use it. Can't pay the bill, afford the medicines.
The most will be from people dropping insurance for more food money.
Looking at the wealth inequality it's a clear sign of a need for higher pay and
being they make the same pay year after year the only way is to drop their
insurance. How would you like to get $190+ more a pay check? They will drop! http://inequality.org/wealth-inequality
Insurance companies, was failing at 45.7 million. Look at the forecast of uninsured.
My view there will be 60, 70 or 150+ million uninsured!
It's about being a victim of stupid people! I am saying there will no health care
affordable and all after the uninsured taking the insurance companies down.
Also investors seeing a flood of uninsured not getting their medicines.
They will pull their stocks out being the lack of stable in investors with Trump
over healthcare.
This will lead in more lawsuits as the workers that got hurt at work have no insurance
companies for unemployment insurance. Also with no hospitals due to no insurance
healthcare more in small towns will not exist so time would be needed for the workers
to self heal. And in all of that they would sue for their income as they are recovering.
Or the work places would have to offer unlimited sick time to resolve the issue!
Anyway you see it the workers would be a liability making less jobs out there!
~~~~~If Trump Wins, a Sickening Number of People Are Going to Lose Their Health Insurance
As he reminded us
this week, Donald Trump fully intends to repeal Obamacare if he wins
the presidency. The man does not, however, have much of a plan to
replace it. The scheme he has outlined is so utterly insubstantial that,
depending on which think tank you ask, it would likely leave anywhere
from about 15 million to 21 million fewer Americans without health insurance than there would be with the Affordable Care Act intact.
And yet, even those grisly numbers don't completely capture the human
wreckage the GOP's current health policy proposals would leave behind.
That's because, aside from erasing Obamacare from the statute books,
Trump has said
he would overhaul Medicaid by turning it into a block grant, likely
resulting in massive cuts to the government's insurance program for the
poor. This detail of his agenda has gone largely unremarked upon by
major media outlets, perhaps because it's a long-standing and slightly
technical goal that conventional conservatives have wanted for decades.
But in terms of the number of Americans it would leave without health
coverage, over time the move could be similarly momentous to killing the
ACA.
In practice, block grants are designed to cap and shrink the size of
federal programs. Instead of helping to cover the cost of every new
Medicaid enrollee, as it does today, Washington would send each state a
limited sum of cash to spend on the program each year. Once the funding
ran out, states would either have to use more of their own tax dollars,
or—more likely—stop signing up new beneficiaries. Congress would
probably set the grants to grow slower than needed to keep up with the
country's combination of rising health care costs and population growth,
meaning that over time, the government would spend less than under the
current program, and insure fewer Americans.
Republicans have been itching to transform Medicaid into a block
grant ever since they failed to during the ’90s battle over welfare
reform. Recent proposals
from Congress would end up cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from
the program over a decade, likely leaving vast numbers of Americans
uninsured. In 2012, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated
that a plan that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan put forward would have
eventually reduced Medicaid enrollment by 14.3 million to 20.5 million
within 10 years, depending on how well states could keep the program's
costs in check. Those figures don't include the people who would lose
their health coverage if Obamacare's Medicaid expansion were eliminated. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/11/02/if_trump_wins_millions_will_go_without_health_insurance.html
Have you ever thought of cooking something with your car before?
I put a potato wrapped in aluminum on my engine then drove to work a
few times. Why? It was cool to do something like that for me it saved time
as I could get my dinner going as I was going to work.
There was a few times when I got to work and the potato was missing, funny by
itself knowing it must of flew on the highway behind me! And that was the reason
I quit doing it.
Also is a trick of cooking a fish in the dishwasher. My mom did that once when
I was a kid. It was ok but not cost effective with the aluminum use to seal it off.
But cooking with your car can be useful if at work there is a race to use the
microwave so that heating your lunch by the car would take less time at work to reheat.
Also to save saving your Electric / Gas bill at home. There is a reason for doing it.
~~~~~Cooking great meals with your car engine. The heat is on. The basics - remember, it's not an exact science.
Chris
and Bill advise that although car engines are all different, the
principles are the same. So, how do you find the best places on your car
engine to place your chicken, your veggies or your succulent piece of
rainbow trout? Well, it all comes down to...your finger.
Get your car up to operating speed, or better yet take it for a drive
around the block for five minutes, and then bring it back to the garage
and lift the hood. Now, finger at the ready, you start quickly touching
various parts of the engine (nothing plastic...that will never get hot
enough to cook anything). And by quickly touching, it's the kind of
swift stab that means your finger feels the heat but you don't give
yourself a third degree burn. (If you're feeling really wussy, try an
infrared thermometer). Usually, the hottest part of the engine will be
the exhaust manifold. On older cars, the top of the engine block will be
a good, sizzling place.
You're not just looking for the hottest parts of the engine. Like any
kind of cooking, different foods require different temperatures. A very
hot part of the engine will be great for thick meat, a cooler part good
for veggies or fish. Or, if you're traveling many hundreds of miles,
you may want to use the cooler part to slow-cook your meat. Mmmm. As
always, this is trial and error. http://www.wisebread.com/cooking-great-meals-with-your-car-engine-the-heat-is-on
I need to note that on my birthday a rainy day I was talking to someone
about the Peacock Angel and as I was driving the car talking I seen a rainbow bright
as anything. I really only see them like once every 10 years or so. Is it a sign? A rainbow relates to the Peacock angel. I also seen a halo rainbow, well 95% there
when I was a kid. (That is like a Judgment day thing in the Peacock Angel belief!)
It is a rainbow at like 12 noon with the sun right over your head it makes a round rainbow!
It was not all the way there when I saw it.
When I was a kid I remember seeing a Peacock at a zoo or petting zoo. I remember I could make it's tail spread out by spreading my fingers apart. And I remember it got mad at me and it started to talk to god about me being from dust and why does it have to do this. Really I do remember this when I was a kid. At the time I knew nothing about this stuff but that it happened. Even if it was a dream it still had to do with the Peacock angel belief! Am I a reincarnated Adam? I had a past life memory from the Cambrian Period. I was also a fish that came out of the water and took a breath. So I don't know! To me it's one of those things in my life, like how I meet people before I meet them or something of the sorts! Cool! http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-past-life-memory-really.html
~~~~Melek Taus - The Peacock God of the Yazid
Melek Taus, the "Peacock Angel", is the god of the Yazidis.
The Yazidis consider Tawûsê Melek an emanation of God and a benevolent angel
who has redeemed himself from his fall and has become a demiurge who created
the cosmos frothe Cosmic Egg. After he repented, he wept for 7000 years,
his tears filling seven jars, which then quenched the fires of Hell.
Melek was borrowed from the Arabic term "king" or "angel". In Hebrew,
Melekh is King, and Malakh is Angel. Tawus is uncontroversially translated "peacock";
in art and sculpture, Melek Taus is depicted as peacock.
However, peacocks are not native to the lands where he is worshipped.
The Yazidi believe that the founder of their religion, Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir, was
an avatar of Melek Taus.
Some people identify Melek Taus as Lucifer, or Satan. The Yazidis do not utter
such blasphemy, as it is quite offensive to them to equate Melek Taus with evil.
He is an Angel and this is how the Yazidis see him.
~~~~What is the Peacock Angel? Tawsi Melek, the “Peacock Angel” and “Peacock King,” is the most import deity of the Yezidis. But he is not just the possession of the Yezidis, he belongs to the entire world. The Yezidis believe that they possess the oldest religion on Earth, the primeval faith that features Tawsi Melek, and that all other traditions are related to them through the Peacock Angel. They contend that Tawsi Melek is the true creator and ruler of the universe, and therefore a part of all religious traditions. He does not, however, always manifest within these diverse traditions as a peacock. Tawsi Melek has taken on many other forms throughout time.
The Yezidis do not believe that the Peacock Angel is the Supreme God. The Supreme God created him as an emanation at the beginning of time. He was brought into manifestation in order to give the invisible, transcendental Supreme God a vehicle with which to create and administer the universe. Tawsi Melek is thus a tangible, denser form of the infinite Supreme God. In order to assist Tawsi Melek in this important role, the Supreme Creator also created six other Great Angels, who were, like the Peacock Angel, emanations of the Supreme God and not separate from him.
When recounting the creation of all Seven Great Angels, the Yezidis often summarize the emanation process as follows: Tawsi Melek was the first to emerge from the Light of God in the form of a seven-rayed rainbow, which is a form he still today continues to manifest within to them (usually as a rainbow around the Sun). But the Yezidis also claim that Tawsi Melek and the six Great Angels are collectively the seven colors of the rainbow. Therefore, the six Great Angels were originally part of Tawsi Melek, the primal rainbow emanation, who bifurcated to become the rainbow’s seven colors, which are collectively the Seven Great Angels. Of the seven colors produced from the primal rainbow, Tawsi Melek became associated with the color blue, because this is the color of the sky and the heavens, which is the source of all colors.
Tawsi Melek was, therefore, both the first form of the Supreme God and one of the Seven Great Angels, which is a cosmic heptad mentioned within many religious traditions. The Jews, Christians, Persian, Egyptians all have their seven angels and creators. In the Meshefê Re, the Yezidis “Black Book,” there is one passage that describes the Seven Great Angels and associates their creation with the seven days of Creation. The text first states that the Supreme God first created a pearl containing the substance or substratum of the soon-to-be physical universe, ostensibly referring to the molten mass preceding the “Big Bang” championed by modern physics.
The Yezidi text then maintains that for forty thousand years this pearl sat upon a primal bird, which is quite possibly an incipient form of Tawsi Melek before he divided into the Seven Great Angels. This pearl then exploded (or became dismantled) to become the physical universe. Then, states the Meshefê Re, came the seven days of creation:
“The first day which He (the Supreme God) created was Sunday. On that day He created an angel whose name was 'Azra'il. This is Melekê Taus, who is the greatest of all. On Monday He created the Angel Darda'il, who is Shaikh Hasan. On Tuesday He created the Angel Israfil, who is Shaikh Shams. On Wednesday He created the Angel Mika'il, who is Shaikh Abu Bakr. On Thursday He created the Angel Gibra'il, who is Sagad ad-Din. On Friday He created the Angel Shimna'il, who is Nasir ad-Din. On Saturday He created the Angel Nura'il, who is Yadin [Fakhr ad-Din]. And God made Melekê Taus the greatest of them.”
Ever since their primal creation the Seven Great Angels have been associated with the day of the week they were created. Tawsi Melek’s day is Sunday, etc. Once the Seven Great Angels were created the Earth was produced by them out of the substratum of the original pearl. It remained barren and then suddenly entered a phase of intense continual shaking, perhaps coinciding with the violent earthquake and volcanic activity that was ubiquitous around the young Earth. In order to calm the planetary quaking, the Supreme God sent the Peacock Angel to Earth with orders to both sedate the Earth and endow it with multi-colored flora and fauna.
As Tawsi Melek descended into the physical dimension his seven-colored rainbow self became manifest as a magnificent bird of seven colors, the peacock. He then flew around the globe in order to bless every part of it, finally landing in the area of what is now Lalish, the Yezidis most sacred part of Earth located in northern Iraq. Here Tawsi Melek was able to calm the Earth while simultaneously covering it with his peacock colors.
With the Earth in a more placid phase of its evolution the Great Angels proceeded to their next creation, Adam. The first human was created by all the Seven Great Angels, each of whom endowed him with a physical sense to experience life. One gave him an ear, one a nose, one a mouth, etc. But the first human was a lifeless heap without a soul, so Tawsi Melek transmitted the breath of life into him.
When Adam then rose to his feet, Tawsi Melek quickly swung him around so that he was facing the Sun while informing him that there was something much greater than he and that praying daily to the Sun as a form of the Supreme God would help him to remember this truth. Tawsi Melek then verbalized the prayers that Adam and his descendants around the globe were to repeat during their worship, and he spoke them in 72 languages since Adam and Eve were destined to have 72 sons and 72 daughters who would populate the 72 regions or countries of the Earth.
The Peacock Angel then informed Adam that if he and his descendants remained steadfast in righteousness they would eventually see and know the Supreme God personally. In the meantime, Tawsi Melek would be their protector and teacher even while residing in another dimension.
