..A. CREATION
...B. CREATION AND THE FLOOD
...C. THE CREATION OF MAN
...D. AND E. THE FLOOD
...F. THE MANDAEAN NATION
...G. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE RED SEA STORY
#2--OF ABRAHAM AND YURBA
#3--HOW HIBIL ZIWA FETCHED RUHA FROM THE DARKNESS
#4--THE STORY OF QIQEL AND THE DEATH OF YAHYA
#5-- NEBUCHADNEZZAR`S DAUGHTER
#6--SUN STORIES
#7-- THE BRIDGE AT SHUSTER
#8-- THE FIRE-WORSHIPPER AND ADAM BUL FARAJ
#9-- HOW DANA NUK VISITED THE SEVENTH HEAVEN
#10-- THE MILLENNIUM
#11-- CONCERNING THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MADDAI AND HOW THE TURKS CAME TO TAKE IT
#12-- HOW THE MANDAI AND THEIR GANZIBRA LEFT THE MOUNTAIN FOR A BETTER COUNTRY
#13-- THE CHILD CONCEIVED ON THE 29th NIGHT OF THE MOON
#14-- THE KANSHI UZAHLA
#15-- THE HAUNTINGS
#16-- THE PLAGUE IN SHUSTER
#17-- THE STONE-THROWING
#18-- THE KAFTAR
#19-- BIBI`S SONS AND THEIR STRANGE ADVENTURE
#20-- SHAIKH ZIBID
#21-- OF BEHOLDING EVENTS IN TRANCE
#22-- HOW EVIL SPIRITS ABUSE THE DEAD, ETC.
#23-- MEN WHO HAVE RETURNED FROM DEATH, ETC.
#24-- OF THE POWER T0 SEE SPIRITS
#25-- THE SIMURGH: THE TRUE HISTORY OF RUSTAM AND HIS SON
#26-- HIRMIZ SHAH
#27--THE MAN WHO SOUGHT TO SEE SIN THE MOON
#28-- THE SIMURGH AND HIRMIZ SHAH
It was Yurba who gave the Jews their power, and it was thus. Abraham was of our people-we called him Bahram. Yes, he was a Mandai, a Nasurai. His brother was a rish 'amma (head-of-the-people, a king-priest), and they were a family of priests. Bahram developed a sore (dumbala) and, because of it, he was circumcised. He was very troubled when this happened, for being thus he could no longer act as a slaughterer or priest. For the Mandai do not accept maimed persons, or those who have lost a finger, ear, or part of any member as their priests. These are henceforth unclean.
He dared not tell his brother, but his brother discovered what had happened and said to him: 'It is written that you may not be a priest any more. No doubt the origin of your sickness was in darkness, and you committed a fault; for, to the pure, no sickness may come.'
And it is so; for, if a person lives purely and does not frequent people of eHshukha (Darkness) and prays and keeps his thoughts clean, disease and sores do not come upon him. If a person is strong, in purity and light, he may go amongst evil or sick persons and surlier no hurt: on the contrary, he has power from Mara ad Rabutha (the Lord of Greatness) which goes out from him to them and heals them.
Bahram said to his brother, 'It will be better if I go out from amongst you, and go forth into the desert'. So he left the city and established himself (for he was rich) in the desert.
With him went all the unclean amongst the S'ubba; the leprous and those who were deficient and of these bas'ran Sira (moon-deficients) their descendants are unclean and deficient until the seventh generation. They went, the leprous and the unclean, with their children and their families, and Bahram began to worship Yurba. Yurba came to him on the wind and began to rule him and his people in all that they did. He said, 'Do thus', and they obeyed, Bahram and his people.
Thus Bahram became a large tribe and a powerful people. Yurba had been given power in this world, and he gave to Bahram such magic power that fire was unable to burn him.
Amongst the Mandai and Nas'urai also there were those who quarrelled [with the true believers], and they joined themselves with Bahram, who said to them, 'I have power from Yurba and can conquer'.
They and Bahram sought to force the Mandai, saying, 'Come with us and be like us, or we will fight with you!'
The Mandai answered them; 'We may not fight, because it is forbidden to us to kill men'.
Bahram said to them, 'Then I shall take you by force'. And he caught them as opportunity offered, on the roads or in the wilderness, and circumcised them by force, thus making them lacking and unclean like himself. If they resisted, he killed them.
The Nasurai sent to reason with him, saying, 'Why do you seize people thus and circumcise them or kill them? You commit sin and will be punished.' Bahram replied: 'My power is of Yurba and not from Melka Ziwa: what can you do?'
Now there was a rish 'amma and he had power. Ruha herself used to appear to him. And she came to him and he said to her, 'Bahram is working us hurt by power of Yurba, what can we do against him?'
Ruha replied, 'He has a certain right, for when Melka Ziwa brought me and my children from the realms of darkness, I besought Melka d Anhura (the Light King) that I should have my portion.
I said to him "Give me sahm, a share, something of my own". And Melka d Anhura granted me this and divided the world into periods in which I and my children had power: one portion was to the water, another portion to the fire and another to war.' (For a gardener who works in a garden has his wage, and from the time of Abraham there was a period of power for Ruha and Yurba.)
Ruha took a boy and a girl from amongst the children of Adam Paghra, enticing them away by ornaments and songs and dances, and carried them away to China, where they increased and multiplied and became many. Their worship was of Ruha and her children, and as these have sicknesses and mikrobat and diseases of all kinds in their hands to give or to withhold, they withheld evil gifts from these children of Adam, so that they grew and prospered. Hiwel Ziwa went to Ruha and reproached her: 'Why dost thou thus ?'
She replied, 'You took me away from my people- may I not have my portion from the children of Adam, something of my own?’ He said, 'Those you have taken away may remain yours, but you must not take any others of the children of Adam.'
Thus, likewise, Yurba had power, and it was by this power that Abraham became strong. It was permitted to Yurba and to Ruha and her children, for Hiwel Ziwa had taken Zahariel, Ruha's sister, to spouse, and it was be- cause of this that he listened to the voice of Ruha when she asked for her portion (of power). And, from that time, the Jews were strong, and the Prophet Musa (Moses), too, had his strength from Yurba.
But Prophet Moses never suffered himself to be circumcised, neither did the prophet Jesus, for Jesus was of our sect, and they do not allow mutilations.
..A. CREATION
...B. CREATION AND THE FLOOD
...C. THE CREATION OF MAN
...D. AND E. THE FLOOD
...F. THE MANDAEAN NATION
...G. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE RED SEA STORY
#2--OF ABRAHAM AND YURBA
#3--HOW HIBIL ZIWA FETCHED RUHA FROM THE DARKNESS
#4--THE STORY OF QIQEL AND THE DEATH OF YAHYA
#5-- NEBUCHADNEZZAR`S DAUGHTER
#6--SUN STORIES
#7-- THE BRIDGE AT SHUSTER
#8-- THE FIRE-WORSHIPPER AND ADAM BUL FARAJ
#9-- HOW DANA NUK VISITED THE SEVENTH HEAVEN
#10-- THE MILLENNIUM
#11-- CONCERNING THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MADDAI AND HOW THE TURKS CAME TO TAKE IT
#12-- HOW THE MANDAI AND THEIR GANZIBRA LEFT THE MOUNTAIN FOR A BETTER COUNTRY
#13-- THE CHILD CONCEIVED ON THE 29th NIGHT OF THE MOON
#14-- THE KANSHI UZAHLA
#15-- THE HAUNTINGS
#16-- THE PLAGUE IN SHUSTER
#17-- THE STONE-THROWING
#18-- THE KAFTAR
#19-- BIBI`S SONS AND THEIR STRANGE ADVENTURE
#20-- SHAIKH ZIBID
#21-- OF BEHOLDING EVENTS IN TRANCE
#22-- HOW EVIL SPIRITS ABUSE THE DEAD, ETC.
#23-- MEN WHO HAVE RETURNED FROM DEATH, ETC.
#24-- OF THE POWER T0 SEE SPIRITS
#25-- THE SIMURGH: THE TRUE HISTORY OF RUSTAM AND HIS SON
#26-- HIRMIZ SHAH
#27--THE MAN WHO SOUGHT TO SEE SIN THE MOON
#28-- THE SIMURGH AND HIRMIZ SHAH
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