I mean he did run for president in OTL so... He was the first presidential candidate to be assassinated during a campaign, actually. His platform was interesting if nothing else 🤔Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Thanks, @Transparent Blue , here it is! :3
FLAG CHALLENGE #252: The Rekindled Flame
They had tried to conquer us. They had desecrated our shrines, enslaved our people and sought to force their deviant ways upon us. For centuries we had waited; hid in the mountains, jungles and forests, sharpening our claws for the day we take back our freedom. And when the heavens saw us strong enough, it granted us victory over our oppressors. Now we walk free again, a legacy restored, one where our faith and lineage shines brighter than ever.
We are the rekindled flame.
Submissions Open: Now
- Design a flag for a country that is predominantly made up of an extinct or existing minority religion, or an extinct or current minority branch or sect of an existing religion.
- Religions
- Extinct: e.g. Manichaeans, Norse Paganism, Aztec religion etc
- Existing: e.g. Zoroastrianism, Mandaeism, Yazidism, Druze etc
- Branches
- Extinct: e.g. Cathar (Christianity), Bogomils (Christianity), Zurvanism (Zoroastrianism) etc
- Existing: Samaritans (Judaism), Old Catholics (Christianity), Anabaptists (Christianity)
- Sects or Schools
- Extinct: e.g. Qarmatians (Shi'ite Islam), Khajirites (Khajirite/Ibadi Islam)
- Existing: e.g. Nizaris (Shi'ite Islam), Ruthenian Catholics (Eastern Catholic Christianity)
- Countries based on a currently thriving religion, branch or sect that was once predominant in the area do not count (e.g. Sunni Muslim Andalusia, Christian Orthodox Anatolia). Rule may be revised depending on responses.
- Countries based on a religion, branch or sect that is currently predominant in at least one modern country do not count. (e.g. Ibadi Islam, Orthodox Judaism)
- Optional: The religious group or sect may be tied to a specific ethnicity (e.g. Yazidis, Mandaeans, etc)
- All existing flag challenge rules apply. Kindly refer to the link and quote below.
Submissions Close: Sun,25th July, 1st August, 2021, 9:00pm (GMT+8) - Extended
RULES
The voting period is already quite long. I don't think it's necessary to extend it.Should I extend the voting period? The forum's been down the past two days.
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Yazidistan, officially the Radiant Sultanate of Yazidistan, is a theodemocracy located in western Asia between Byzantium, the Arabian Caliphate and the Persian Empire. The heartland of the Yezidi religion, the nation has for much of its history remained closed to its neighbors owing to widespread ethnoreligious tension at this junction of major religions. With their unique faith system decried as heretical or even satanic by Christian and Muslim sects throughout history the Yazidi ethnoreligious group organized early on to repel incursions from hostile neighbors, creating a tightly knit and well defended nation state in the sixteenth century that has persisted to the present. Historically ruled by a an absolute monarch who also serves as head of the faith, the nation chose to modernize its institutions in the nineteenth century, eventually establishing a representative republic organized along the theodemocratic principles pioneered but never implemented by President Joseph Smith.
As such, there are no religious barriers to voting or running for political office, with a balance achieved between a unicameral legislature that forges policy, an executive branch under a president to implement it, and a supreme court to rule on constitutional and religious questions. One innovation in the theodemocratic system is that the Sultan, as head of the faith, is able to override the legislature on certain matters through divine revelation. Despite this extraordinary veto, the Sultan has transitioned into a purely religious rather than political office over time, with the power rarely used and the monarch more often serving a ceremonial function as the nation's head of state.
With God in the Yazidi cosmology taking a remote position from creation, the flag of Yazidistan instead directly references the angel Melek Taus who was entrusted to manage it, with a seven-pointed gold star to represent divine emanation and the "Seven Mysteries" central to the faith, red to symbolize martyr's blood, and the combination of green, sky blue and indigo to suggest a peacock, an animal traditionally associated with Melek Taus and the nation more generally.
Rad! I'll put one up tomorrowSorry for the delay! Congratulations to @Born in the USSA ! We look forward to your challenge! Here's your guide!
I was thinking the same thing! Nine and a half hours to goHopefully someone can manage a third entry!
::tries to do math... 6 hours yesterday evening, but 9 hours this afternoon? Wha-? Have I slipped into a time loop? Will I never see this contest end!?!?I was thinking the same thing! Nine and a half hours to go