..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
They opened the grave and took the man out, and he was dead, but there was a long nail which entered his skull and went down the length of his body, another long nail through the right shoulder which came out at the right foot, and a third on the left shoulder coming out at the left foot. A most strange thing! Work of the shiviahi.
The people drew the nails out of the corpse and took them to a smith called Mureyhij, a Subbi, who forged nails for mashahif. They said to him, "Look! Of what metal are these nails?"
He rose and put the nails in his furnace and blew up the fire, but, however hard he blew and however hot the furnace became, the nails remained cold, so cold that they could grasp them and hold them in their hands. Turkish hakim (governor) heard of this and he said to them, "This is a fine curiosity! Bring it to me in the office!" They brought the nails to him and left them there, and I do not know what became of them.
I will tell you another strange thing. This happened to us when we were in Shuster. There were those who bore our family a grudge because we were always very rigorous in all questions of purity, and not only rigorous about ourselves, but we would never admit a polluted person, or a person in whose family there was pollution, or physical infirmity or deformity, into alliance with us. However much we liked them, we would not marry with them, or carry their coffins, or have anything to do with them, and many disliked us because of it, for many Subba are not careful about such matters The mother of Kajar, my grandfather, died
Some of these Subba said, "We will go and take he corpse and throw it out of the grave." for they hated her. They were people such as I have mentioned, and we will not give or take in marriage from them, however rich they may be! We will only marry with our kind, however poor.
Yes. The old woman died, and they took her and buried her properly. They read the Ginza Rabba near her tomb and ate lofani and gave food to the poor Mandai.
At four of the night, three Subbis went and dug her up and took her out. They put a rope round her and pulled her out.
She had three sons: Kajar (my grandfather), Faraj, and another. Faraj was sleeping, and she came to him in a dream. He saw her coming softly to him, and called out, "O mother, mother!" She said to him, "So-and-so, so-and-so, and so-and-so, sons of so-and-so, came and put a rope round me and drew me out of my grave!"
Faraj rose like a madman, crying, "Kajar! My brothers! Rise! Get up! Get up!"
His wife seized him, saying, 'What is it?"
He said, 'My mother has just come to us!"
She said, "It is a dream."
He said, "No! My mother came to me: I saw her in truth!" He told them what his mother had said, and they went up to the roof of their house, which stood high. The graveyard was further down the hill, below. They looked and saw a light near their mother's grave. Each seized a stick and went out. There was a thick, thick darkness, and they came unperceived on the grave robbers and seized them, and put their mother back into her place, putting a plank above her so that no earth should fall on her. Next day they took the men to the judge, who ordered that they should be beaten severely, and up- braided them, saying, "' Why did you act thus?"
Their people went with their relatives to the ganzowra and said, "Protection! The judge is going to punish our sons! Mercy!"
The ganzowra went to the judge and said, 'For my sake forgive them. They come of respectable people, an they did this our of madness. I know they are thoughtless youths, and so for my sake, forgive them and release them from prison." He (the ganzowra) was also of our family.
The judge did so. Aye, it was a strange thing. Fara said, "She talked to me and was not changed in her appearance. She looked exactly as she did when she was alive like her own portrait." From such happenings we know that the soul wears an earthly likeness when it leaves the body.
Again. One Subbi died--he was quite dead, he had gone! They placed a lamp beside him and a man called Ujheyli sat by him watching, for we do not leave the dead unwatched. Ujheyli looked at the corpse and he saw it rise and begin to grope about with its eyes closed. Ujheyli shouted, 'He has come alive (Sar adil). Come, come!"
They rushed in. The woman was overjoyed that her husband was alive. They came and felt him. His pulse was not beating: he was cold, he was dead! A Persian doctor was brought in to see him and he examined him and said, 'The man is dead!" But a second time, the corpse rose and did as before, and all the people fled before it. Three times that happened. The ganzowra heard of it and said, 'This is shiviahi's work! Perhaps you did not put the skandola on himl" For it is our custom to put the skandola and a knife with a dead person.
They replied, "No, we did not!"
They put a skandola on his finger and a knife by his side, and the dead man did not rise again. It was the work of shiviahi.
This is true.
..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
Narrator: Hirmiz bar Anhar
