Glimpses of the Left..

The old Persian was unknown to the culture of the West for
a long time. The of Yatus sorcerers and demons) is still
one of the known or understood religions. Yatuk Dinoih is in fact an
ancient Hand from the area of what now
constitutes Iran, and much in cornman with the
as the Egyptian Set, the godform
Yatukan cults personifies the concept
in which an individual consciousness is
antinomian rebellion challenges
the imposed world structures. he is the initiator, the symbol of
and the lunar current - though this particular aspect is
more evidently embodied by the female counterpart of Ahrirnan. Az is
the of and "mother of demons", the Persian
In all this
symbolism
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and found there the
For a
or Hecate.
within - the Black AJJ.t1I'.n of the Dark Side
it is to compare the
of Daevas by means of QabaHstic
Amesha personify the
to the on the
(this is also the
has its dark
represent the inaccessible aspects of the universe and the dark side of
consciousness. And like qIipothic the Daevas are the dynamic,
chaotic, and destructive forces.
Apart from vampiric initiation, the essence of the Yatukan also
involves goetic evocations and invocations that far beyond the
practices of The Lesser Key of Solomon. in
the circle, afraid of the conjured Yatus (the or Pairika (the
witch) consciously strive for the union with the evoked
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