Druse of the Carmel Mount

The most ancient habitants of the Galilee along of the history are the druses habitant, when this population tell us about the origin, them refer it to Jetro or Yetro in Hebrew the father of Moses wife. This photo was take when this druse offer me a coffee cup.

DRUSES, or DRUZES (Arab. Druz) , a people of mid-Syria (for the derivation of the name see History section below), distributed nowadays into three isolated groups, of which the most numerous inhabits Jebel Hauran (Jebel Druz), E. of Jordan (about 55,000); the second, the cazas of Shuf and Metn in Lebanon (about 50,000); the third, the cazas of Hasbeya, Rasheya, W. al Ajem, Horns, Hamadiyeh and Selimiyeh in Anti-Lebanon and Hermon (about 45,000) .

The first group, which has been greatly increased by migrants from the second, since the establishment of the privileged Lebanon province (1861) under Christian auspices, lives apart from other peoples in semi-independence . The second is now confined to the southern Lebanon, and even there is greatly outnumbered by Maronites, who, in the whole " Mountain," stand to Druses as 9 to 2 . The third is counterbalanced everywhere by a large population of Moslem and Orthodox Syrians . The Hauran, therefore, has become the stronghold of the Druses, offering nowadays the best field for studying their peculiar customs and religion; and the group there still increases at the expense of the other groups, despite efforts on the part of the Ottoman government to check Druse migration by both conciliatory and repressive measures .

The actual distinction of the Druses, as a racial unity, despite their dispersion, depends so exclusively on the peculiarity of their common religion, that it will be well at once to give an account of Druse creed and practice as they are understood to stand at the present day . How this religion may have grown up and come to be theirs will be considered later . Religion.—Druse religion is a secret faith, and the following account is given with all reserves .

There are many indications that a more primitive cult, containing elements of Nature worship, preceded it, and still survives in the popular practices of the more remote Druse districts, e.g. in the eastern Hauran . The Muwahhidin (Unitarians), as the Druses call themselves, believe that there is one and only one God, indefinable, incomprehensible, ineffable, passionless . He has made himself known to men by successive incarnations, of which the last was Hakim, the sixth Fatimit'e caliph . How many these incarnations have been is stated variously; but seventy, one for each period of the world, seems the best-attested number .

Read more about druses in the Middle East here:
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/DRO_ECG/DRUSES_or_DRUZES_Arab_Druz_.html