Baptism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Yazidi baptism=== [[File:Baptîzma êzidiyan.jpg|thumb|Baptism of a [[Yazidis|Yazidi]] child in [[Lalish]]]] [[Yazidism#Religious practices|Yazidi]] baptism is called ''mor kirin'' (literally: "to seal"). Traditionally, Yazidi children are baptised at birth with water from the ''Kaniya Sipî'' ("White Spring") at [[Lalish]]. It essentially consists of pouring holy water from the spring on the child's head three times.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/yazidis-ii-initiation-in-yazidism |url-status=live |title=YAZIDIS ii. INITIATION IN YAZIDISM |access-date=16 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429200244/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/yazidis-ii-initiation-in-yazidism |archive-date=April 29, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kreyenbroek|first=Philip G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4FpDDbrvqkC&pg=PA31|title=Yezidism in Europe: Different Generations Speak about Their Religion|date=2009|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-06060-8|language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page