Tawûsî Melek, the Peacock Angel, is the central figure of Yezidi devotion. Yezidi theology holds that the transcendent and largely unworshipped creator God, Xwedê, brought into being a Heptad of seven Holy Beings (the heft sirr, 'Seven Mysteries' or 'Seven Angels') and entrusted to them the governance of the world, appointing Tawûsî Melek as their chief and his own deputy. He is thus titled the Lord of this World and is regarded as responsible for everything that happens within it. A characteristic narrative recounts that, having undergone a period of testing, he wept in repentance until his tears extinguished the fires of Hell and was reconciled with God; in Yezidi understanding he is a being of light, and Yezidis firmly reject the polemical identification of him with the fallen Satan of the surrounding Muslim and Christian populations. Within the triad of divine hypostases he is paired with Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir and Sultan Ezid, whose identities are sometimes treated as interchangeable manifestations of one another. His most important material symbol is the sanjak, a bronze peacock effigy formerly carried in procession through the Yezidi villages of Sheikhan and Sinjar.