entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status ENT_YAZ_FAKHR_AL_DIN,PER_YAZIDI,high,"One of the Seven Mysteries, with a creative/cosmogonic role in the qewls; eponym of a sheikhly lineage. Distinct from the Sufi poet Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (homonym) (Kreyenbroek, Omarkhali).",SRC_OMARKHALI_YEZIDI_TEXTUAL,reviewed ENT_YAZ_HEPTAD,PER_YAZIDI,high,Attested in Spat and Kreyenbroek as the Seven Angels/Mysteries to whom Xwede entrusted the world; hub of Yazidi cosmology.,SRC_KREYENBROEK_YEZIDISM,reviewed ENT_YAZ_KHATUNA_FAKHRA,PER_YAZIDI,high,Venerated female holy figure invoked as a patroness of childbirth and protection of infants in Yazidi devotion (Spat).,SRC_SPAT_YEZIDIS,reviewed ENT_YAZ_LALISH,PER_YAZIDI,high,"The sacred valley north of Mosul housing Sheikh Adi's tomb; supreme Yazidi pilgrimage site and a sanctified cosmic realm in the qewls (Spat, Kreyenbroek).",SRC_SPAT_YEZIDIS,reviewed ENT_YAZ_MEHMA_RESHAN,PER_YAZIDI,high,"Revered pir-lineage holy figure of the Yazidi oral tradition, with storm/weather associations in some qewls (Omarkhali, Kreyenbroek).",SRC_OMARKHALI_YEZIDI_TEXTUAL,reviewed ENT_YAZ_NASIRDIN,PER_YAZIDI,high,"One of the Seven Mysteries and eponym of a sheikhly lineage in the Yazidi oral tradition (Kreyenbroek, Omarkhali).",SRC_OMARKHALI_YEZIDI_TEXTUAL,reviewed ENT_YAZ_PIR_LIBNAN,PER_YAZIDI,high,Holy figure of the pir caste associated in the qewls with the sacred construction at Lalish; eponym of a pir lineage (Kreyenbroek).,SRC_KREYENBROEK_YEZIDISM,reviewed ENT_YAZ_SAJADIN,PER_YAZIDI,high,"One of the Seven Mysteries / Sons of Sheikh Adi's companions in the qewls; eponym of a sheikhly lineage (Kreyenbroek, Omarkhali).",SRC_OMARKHALI_YEZIDI_TEXTUAL,reviewed ENT_YAZ_SHEIKH_ADI,PER_YAZIDI,high,Historical 12th-c. Sufi ascetic of Hakkari (d. c.1162) whose tomb is at Lalish; revered in Yazidism as a supreme manifestation and reorganizer of the faith (Kreyenbroek).,SRC_KREYENBROEK_YEZIDISM,reviewed ENT_YAZ_SHEIKH_HASAN,PER_YAZIDI,high,"One of the Seven Mysteries and an earthly avatar; eponym of a principal sheikhly lineage (Kreyenbroek, Omarkhali).",SRC_OMARKHALI_YEZIDI_TEXTUAL,reviewed ENT_YAZ_SHEIKH_OBEKR,PER_YAZIDI,high,Counted among the Seven Mysteries in several enumerations; eponym of a Yazidi sheikhly lineage (Kreyenbroek). Note: distinct from the Islamic caliph despite the shared name (homonym).,SRC_KREYENBROEK_YEZIDISM,reviewed ENT_YAZ_SHEIKH_SHAMS,PER_YAZIDI,high,"Member of the Seven associated with the sun and light; receives dawn veneration in Yazidi practice; eponym of a sheikhly lineage (Spat, Kreyenbroek).",SRC_SPAT_YEZIDIS,reviewed ENT_YAZ_SULTAN_EZID,PER_YAZIDI,high,"Revered manifestation/holy figure central to Yazidi devotion, often linked in name-tradition to the community's self-designation; attested in the qewls (Spat, Kreyenbroek).",SRC_SPAT_YEZIDIS,reviewed ENT_YAZ_TAWUSI_MELEK,PER_YAZIDI,high,"Chief of the Seven; venerated as God's foremost emanation and steward of the world. Yazidis REJECT the external misidentification with Shaytan/the devil; modeled here only as the Peacock Angel of the qewls (Spat, Kreyenbroek).",SRC_SPAT_YEZIDIS,reviewed ENT_YAZ_XWEDE,PER_YAZIDI,high,The single remote creator God in Yazidi belief who delegates the cosmos to the Heptad; attested across Kreyenbroek and Spat.,SRC_KREYENBROEK_YEZIDISM,reviewed