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In a thorough article, the Yezidi Studies scholar Artur Rodziewicz has tried to demonstrate that the assertion, which has been reiterated in the scholarly literature for several decades, that the Yezidi festival is linked to Mithraism is an unsupported over-interpretation that is also politically motivated.^[1] But the reasons he gives are not strong enough. For example, in criticism of Kreyenbroek's hypothesis, he attributes the identity of the peacock to the angel Gabriel, based on Yazidi hymns^[2], while the function of this Judeo-Islamic angel is completely different from that in Yazidi religion, in one side there is an angel (practically the god of the material world) who is the ruler of the material world, and on the other side there is an angel who is only a messenger between Allah and the prophet Mohammed. So this merely name similarity could have been appeared for any reason under the influence of Islam not as a similarity in basic structures. 46.112.104.6 (talk) 13:14, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]