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 Razbar
• Khatun-i Qiyamat

Relations

• subordinate to: Soltan Sahak
• companion: Soltan Sahak

Sources

• 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.
• Hamzeh'ee, M. Reza. The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Community. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1990.