In the beginning God created the White Pearl out of His most precious Essence; and He created a bird named Anfar. And He placed the pearl upon its back, and dwelt thereon forty thousand years.

On the first day, Sunday, He created an angel named 'Azazil, which is Ta'us Melek ("the Peacock Angel"), the chief of all.

On Monday He created Darda'il, which is Sheikh Hasan.

On Tuesday he created Israfil (Raphael), who is Sheikh Shams.

On Wednesday He created Jibra'il (Gabriel), who is Sheikh Abu Bekr.

On Thursday He created 'Azra'il, who is Sajadin.

On Friday He created the angel Shemna'il, who is Nasiru'd-Din.

On Saturday He created the angel Nura'il, who is [...]

He made Melek Ta'us chief over them.

Afterwards he created the form of the seven heavens, and the earth, and the sun, and the moon [and the stars.] He created mankind, and animals, and birds, and beasts, and placed them in the folds of His mantle, and arose from the Pearl, accompanied by the angels. Then He cried out at the Pearl with a loud cry, and forthwith it fell asunder into four pieces, and water gushed out from it and became the sea. The world was round without clefts.

Then He created Gabriel in the form of a bird, and committed to his hands the deposition of the four corners. Then He created a ship and abode therein thirty thousand years, after which He came and dwelt in Lalesh. He cried out in the world, and the sea coagulated, and the world became earth and they continued quivering. Then He commanded Gabriel to take two of the pieces of the White Pearl, one of which He placed under the earth, while the other rested in the Gate of Heaven. Then He placed in them the sun and the moon, and created the stars from their fragments, and suspended them in heaven for an ornament. He also created fruit-bearing trees and plants in the earth, and likewise the mountains, to embellish the earth. He created the Throne over the Carpet.

Then said the Mighty Lord, "O Angels, I will create Adam and Eve, and will make them human beings, and from them two shall arise, out of the loins of Adam, Shehr ibn Jebr; and from him shall arise a single people on the earth, the people of 'Azazel, to wit of Ta'us Melek, which is the Yezidi people. Then I shall send Sheikh 'Adi b. Musafir from the land of Syria, and he shall come and dwell in Lalesh".

Then the Lord descended to the holy land and commanded Gabriel to take earth from the four corners of the world: earth, air, fire and water. He made it man, and endowed it with a soul by His power. Then He commanded Gabriel to place Adam in Paradise, where he might eat of the fruit of every green herb, only of wheat should he not eat. After a hundred years Ta'us Melek said to God, "How shall Adam increase and multiply, and where is his offspring?" God said to him, "Into thy hand have I surrendered authority and administration". Then he came and said to Adam, "Hast thou eaten of the wheat?" He answered, "No, for God hath forbidden me so to do, and hath said, 'Thou shalt not eat of it'". Melek Ta'us said to him, "If you eat of it, all shall go better with thee". But, after he had eaten, his belly swelled up, and Ta'us Melek drove him forth from Paradise, and left him, and ascended into heaven. Then Adam suffered from the distention of his belly, because it had no outlet. But God sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. And Gabriel continued absent from him for a hundred years, and he was sad, and wept. Then God commanded Gabriel, and he came and created Eve from under Adam's left arm-pit.

Then Melek Ta'us descended to earth for the sake of our people- I mean the much-suffering Yezidis- and raised up for us kings beside the kings of the ancient Assyrians, Nesrukh (who is Nasiru'd-Din) and Kamush (who is King Fakhru'd-Din) and Artimus (who is King Shamsu'd-Din). And after this we had two kings, the first and second Shapur, whose rule lasted one hundred and fifty years, and from whose seed are our Amirs until the present day; and we became divided into four Septs.

To us it is forbidden to eat lettuce (khass) - because its name resembles that of our prophetess Khassa - and haricot beans; also to use dark blue dye; neither do we eat fish, out of respect for Jonah the prophet; nor gazelles, because these constituted the flock of one of our prophets. The Sheik and his disciples, moreover, eat not the flesh of the cock, out of respect for the peacock; for it is one of the seven gods before mentioned, and his image is in the form of a cock. The Sheikh and his disciples likewise abstain from eating pumpkin. It is, moreover, forbidden to us to make water standing, or to put on out clothes sitting, or to cleanse ourselves in the privy as do the Mohammedans, or to perform our ablutions in their baths. Neither is it permitted to us to pronounce the name of Shaitan (because it is the name of our God), nor any name resembling this, such as Kitan, Sharr, Shatt; nor any vocable resembling mal'un, [...], na'l, or the like. Before [...] our religion was called idolatry: and the Jews, Christians, Muslims and Persians held aloof from our religion. King Ahab [1] and Amran were of us, so that they used to call the God of Ahab Beelzebub, whom they call amongst us Pir-bub. We had a king in Babel whose name was Bukhti-Nossor (Nebuchadnezzer), and Ahasuerus (Artaxerxes) in Persia, and in Constantinople Aghriqalus [2]. Before heaven and earth existed, God was over the waters in a vessel in the midst of the waters.

Then He was wroth with the Pearl which he had created, wherefore he cast it away: and from the crash of it were produced the mountains, and from the clang of it the sand-hills, and from its smoke the heavens. Then God ascended into heaven, and condensed the heavens, and fixed them without supports, and enclosed the earth. Then He took the pen in His hands, and began to write down the names of all his creatures. From His essence and light He created six gods, whose creation was as one lighteth a lamp from another lamp.

Then said the first god to the second god, "I have created heaven; ascend thou into it, and create something else." And when he ascended, the sun came into being. And he said to the next, "Ascend!", and the moon came into being. And the third put the heavens in movement, and the fourth created the stars, and the fifth created el-Kuragh - that is to say, the Morning Star; and so on.

Notes:

[1] Ahab, son of Omri ruled in Israel between 875-853 BCE. His wife was Jezebel. Amran may be an alternate spelling of Amram (exalted people), who was the father of Moses and of the Levites, but this is merely speculation.

[2] Nebuchadneezer reigned from 605-562 BCE. He destroyed Solomon's Temple and took the Jews into the Babylonian captivity. Artaxerxes' reign began in about 465 BCE after the reign of Cyrus. I don't know who Aghriqalus is.