Ideally, they all acknowledge, the baptism ceremony, Mor Kirin, should be performed in Lalish, the holiest temple of the Yazidi faith, tucked away in a peaceful valley surrounded by undulating hills north of Mosul in Iraq. Narin should wear a wreath of flowers around her head—daffodils, periwinkles, gardenias. She should drink from the sacred fountain of Zamzam and then be baptized at Kaniya Spî, the “White Spring”—the only place on earth that remained safe and clean when God sent down the Great Flood. Miraculously forming a whirlpool, the spring never mixed with the muddy, dirty floodwaters,
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