..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 built the bridge a second time, and again, when it was ready, it broke to pieces. This happened a third, a fourth, and a fifth time. At the end of the year's work the bridge gave way and was broken to pieces. They went to the wise and learned men of the country and asked them, 'Why should this be!' but not one of them could explain it
Then they went and asked a ganzowra of the Mandai. This ganzowra was a rish amma, and learned in religion and in magic. He listened when they asked him why the bridge always fell at the end of the year's work, and then replied to them:
"This thing happens because of the children of Ruha (the planets). It is the children of Ruha who bring this about."
They said to him, "What shall we do? Show us a way out of the difficulty!"
The ganzowra replied, "When you have completed rebuilding the bridge, I will watch by night and see who it is that destroys it."
Accordingly the night that the rebuilding was complete, the ganzowra went to watch on the bridge, and took with him his daughter, who was wise and understanding; added to that, she was very beautiful.
They stood there, and watched and waited, and at midnight the daughter saw a huge man standing in the air like a cloud. She asked, "Who art thou?" He replied, "I am Chahowa, son of Chachowa."
The girl's father listened, and wrote down the name and, as soon as he had written if he began to read spells over him and over the people of the air, and to compel him and take his powers away by the names of the Powerful.
By virtue of these, the demon's strength left him and he cried to the rish amma "Why dost thou bind me? Why hast thou compelled me?"
The rish amma replied, "I cannot permit you to harm this bridge and wreak evil on the world. "
Chachowa answered the rish amma, "I will desist from evil in the future and will abstain from wrecking the bridge."
The rish amma said, "Good! Yet I will not free until you have promised to perform a task which I shall set you."
Said the demon, "What work do you want from me?"
Answered the rish amma "I want you to transport me to the abode of the Nasurai and tarmidi and the Mandai."
The demon replied, "I will take you thither if you will free me from the bonds wherewith you have bound me. The abode of the Nasurai is far, and I must carry you for forty days in order to reach it and to take you thither I must delve under the ground."
Then he told the rish amma that he and those who wished to go with him to the abode of the Nasurai must assemble together at a place now called Cham Subbi in Ahwaz.
The rish amma then freed him, and returning to his place, he assembled all the Mandai of the place and told them what had happened, asking them,
'Who wishes to come with me! He who does not desire to go to the place of the Nasurai, as he wills, be it! But the willing ones must wait with me at Ahwaz."
They gathered together, the willing ones, and for twenty days nothing happened, nothing!
Onlookers said, "Why have ye assembled here waiting! Do not believe this man, he is telling you lies! It is all an illusion. Let every man go back to his work.'
Then some of the Mandai that were silversmiths began to say amongst themselves, "Indeed, it is lies! We will return and work!" and they left and returned to their place, they and their families.
But others believed, and waited in Ahwaz with their families.
At the end of forty days nothing had happened and the remainder of the silversmiths with the iron smiths and carpenters all departed, unbelieving, each to his own work, and took their families with them. In the end, only the rish amma and his family were left.
Then, the piece of ground upon which they sat--a large piece of ground, going deep into the earth-lifted itself up into the air and flew.
The people in the fields, the shepherds in the desert, and the villagers in the villages saw it flying in the air like an aeroplane and began to scream, and the dogs to bark at the sight.
It flew over Baghdad and the people there saw it and marveled, the children yelled, the cattle lowed, and the dogs barked as it passed over the city.
The people of Ahwaz, when they rose the next morning, saw a vast chasm in the ground where the earth had been, and the Moslems remarked that the rish amma and his family had disappeared, and gazed and cried, "Shinu hai- what can this be!"
They called the name of that hole Nasat as-Subba.
No one knew whither those blessed people had gone, and, pity it was! We, the silversmiths and craftsmen went not and saw not like they!
..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: silversmith (Drower gives no name)
