Khatun-e Razbar

Khatun-e Razbar, also called Ramzbar, is the only woman among the seven holy companions of the central divine manifestation in Yarsani belief. She is the mother-angel of the heptad and is venerated as a manifestation of Khatun-i Qiyamat, the Lady of the Resurrection. Yarsani doctrine holds that her essence incarnates in every cycle as the virgin mother of the earthly manifestation of God: in the dispensation of Soltan Sahak she appears as Dayerak (Khatun Dayrak) of the Jaff people, who conceives the founder when a pomegranate seed falls into her mouth as she sleeps beneath the tree. Her presence affirms the Yarsani principle that the Divine Essence may inhabit a body of either sex. The lineage descended from her is reckoned among the founding houses of the Ahl-e Haqq.

Children

• Soltan Sahak

Domains

• motherhood
• resurrection

Powers

• to conceive and bring forth the earthly manifestation of God

Epithets

• Daya RazbarMir-Hosseini, Ziba. "Faith, Ritual and Culture among the Ahl-e Haqq." In Kurdish Culture and Identity. London: Zed Books, 1996. (secondary)
• Khatun-i QiyamatHamzeh'ee, M. Reza. The Yaresan. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1990. (secondary)

Relations

• subordinate to: Soltan SahakRazbar is one of the holy companions of the heptad attending the central manifestation Soltan Sahak, of whom she is also, through her incarnation as Dayerak, the mother.Kreyenbroek, Philip G. & Yiannis Kanakis. "God First and Last", Vol. I. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2024. (secondary)
• companion: Soltan SahakThe sole female of the seven holy companions (Haftan) of Soltan Sahak.Kreyenbroek, Philip G. & Yiannis Kanakis. "God First and Last", Vol. I. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2024. (secondary)

Sources

• Khatun-e Razbar (Ramzbar) is the only female member of the Haftan, the heptad of holy companions of Soltan Sahak; the mother-angel and a manifestation of Khatun-i Qiyamat, the Lady of the Resurrection, she incarnates as the virgin mother of the divine manifestation.: Kreyenbroek, Philip G. & Yiannis Kanakis. "God First and Last": Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran. Volume I: Religious Traditions. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2024. (secondary); Hamzeh'ee, M. Reza. The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Community. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1990. (secondary)