[62] This belief is taken from Mohammedanism.
[63] The Arabs worshiped a deity under the form of a nasr (eagle), Aš-Šahrastânî, II, 434; Yaḳut, IV, 780; The Syriac Doctrine of Addai (ed. George Philips), p. 24.
[64] Cf. Gen. I: 2, and the Babylonian Creation Epic.
[65] That is the spring of Šeiḫ ‘Adî.
[66] The reference is to Jabal Maḳlûb, which, according to the Yezidi belief, moved from its place near Lališ to enable every Yezidi, wherever he may be, to direct his morning prayers toward the tomb of ‘Adî.
[67] The Moslem begins his prayer by cursing the devil.
[68] That is a person of the same faith, a Yezidi.
[69] A Nuṣairi, on the contrary, may become a Mohammedan with a Mohammedan, a Christian with a Christian, and a Jew with a Jew; cf. J A O S, VII, 298.
[70] The Sabians did not eat purslane, garlic, beans, cauliflower, cabbage, and lentils; cf. Bar. Hebraeus, At-Târîḫ, ed. A. Ṣalḥani, Beirut, 1890, 266.