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Shehîd ibn Jerr ("Witness, son of the Jar"; also Shahîd ibn Jarr) is the name for Seth in Yazidism. Story. According to a narrative among Yazidis, Adam and Eve each deposited their seeds into separate jars.
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According to the Book of Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old (according to the Masoretic Text), or 230 years old (according to the Septuagint), "a son in his likeness and image". The genealogy is repeated at 1 Chronicles 1:1–3. Genesis 5:4–5 states that Adam fathered "sons and daughters" before his death, aged 930 years. According to...
Seth figures in the pseudepigraphical texts of the Life of Adam and Eve (the Apocalypse of Moses). It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths. While the surviving versions were composed from the early 3rd to the 5th century, the literary units in the work are considered to be older and p...
In the Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that his descendants invented the wisdom of the heavenly bodies, and built the "pillars of the sons of Seth", two pillars inscribed with many scientific discoveries and inventions, notably in astronomy. They were built by Seth's descendants b...
The 2nd-century BC Book of Jubilees, regarded as noncanonical except in the Alexandrian Churches, also dates his birth to 130 AM. According to it, in 231 AM Seth married his sister, Azura, who was four years younger than he was. In the year 235 AM, Azura gave birth to Enos. Seth is commemorated as one of the Holy Forefathers in the Calendar of Sain...
Although the Quran makes no mention of Shēth ibn Adam, he is revered within Islamic tradition as the third and righteous son of Adam and Eve and seen as the gift bestowed on Adam after the death of Abel. The Sunni scholar and historian ibn Kathir in his tarikh (book of history), Al-Bidāya wa-n-nihāya (البداية والنهاية), records that Seth, a prophet...
According to the Mandaean scriptures, including the Qolastā, the Book of John and Genzā Rabbā, Seth is cognate with the angelic soteriological figure Sheetil (also spelled Shitil; Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡉࡕࡉࡋ, romanized: Šitil), a son of Adam Kadmaya who taught John the Baptistwith his brothers Anush (Enosh) and Hibil Ziwa (Abel). He is variously spoke...
In Yazidism, Seth is known as Shehid ibn Jerr. According to Yazidi oral literature, Adam and Eve each deposited their seeds into separate jars. While Eve's seed developed into insects, Adam's seed gave birth to Shehid ibn Jerr, the ancestor of the Yazidis. Yazidis thus believe that they have been created separately and differently from all other hu...
Iraq
On July 26, 2014, forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) blew up Nabi Shiyt (Prophet Seth) shrine in Mosul, Iraq. Sami al-Massoudi, the deputy head of the Shiite Endowment Office overseeing holy sites, confirmed that destruction. He added, ISIL took some of the artifacts to an unknown location.
Lebanon
There is a village named after him in Lebanon, that is Al-Nabi Shayth or Al-Nabi Sheeth (meaning "The ProphetSeth"), which is also considered to contain his shrine.
Palestine
There is a now depopulated and razed village in central Palestine, named after him, called Bashshit. In the village, there was, and still is a shrine, claimed to be his tomb. The tomb now sits in the middle of a park in the middle of the settlement of Aseret.
Mar 15, 2022 · In fact, they often hold that their people are descendants from a miraculously born son of Adam called Shehid Ibn Jerr and from that point on, this religion is being traced through the...
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THE ORIGIN MYTH OF THE YEZIDIS – THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER was published in Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition on page 327. Skip to content Should you have institutional access?
This Kurdish-speaking people, who can be found in a region stretching from Iraq and Syria, through Turkey, to the Caucasian states, have a religion of their own that has perplexed generations of researchers. Little is known of their origins, be it from the religious or the ethnic point of view.
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‘Adī ibn Musāfir (Kurdish: شێخ ئادی, romanized: Şêx Adî, Arabic: الشيخ عدي بن مسافر born 1072–1078, died 1162) was a Sunni Muslim Arab sheikh who is also considered a Yazidi saint. The Yazidis consider him as an avatar of Tawûsî Melek, which means "Peacock Angel".
