Yazidi
GPC and Iraqi Calendars – Six Languages Today Why Shop Timeline GPC and Iraqi Calendars: A Message to the Yazidi People 🇬🇧 English 🇮🇱 עברית 🇰🇷 Kurdî 🇦🇪 العربية 🇷🇺 Русский 🇮🇳 हिन्दी Today, while studying a persecuted minority in Iraq — the Yazidi people — I made a startling discovery. They begin their New Year on a Wednesday, known as Çarşema Sor ("Red Wednesday"). This aligns strikingly with ancient traditions. It is likely that many Qumranites (Essenes) migrated to Iraq after the Roman conquest of Judea. As of this writing, the current Yazidi year is 6777. The Assyrian calendar stands at 6776. Both are more than 15 Jubilees (roughly 735 years) longer than the Global Perennial Calendar (GPC). Like the Igbo calendar in Nigeria, the Yazidi calendar is not rigidly standardized. They rely on the season and the day of the week: their New Y...