Qiqel and Darwish (1)

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Mandaic Story of Qiqel and Death of Yahya:
They saw many visions. They saw a vision of Liwet Qadeshta (= Venus the Sacred); the saw the likeness of Šamiš and Sin, and the head of Ur which is lifted towards Awathur, and the good spirits who are with the stars. They saw them in the clay room, from the openings. And after that they rose and collected some of the Nasurai and Mandai who had been scattered in the district and they taught them. Ten men, ten pious men, they brought to be of their fellowship. And they made an image of him whom they had seen in the sky - of him at whom they had gazed through the opening. They made images of them all in stone, of Nirig, of Bel, of Liwet and Sin, and this last, of the moon, had seven heads branching out like a tree. Of Šamiš, the sun, they also made an image, but they were unable to make it aright, for he is all light, many-eyed, of various appearances, of different forms which turn and wheel and radiate. But they made an image of a person sitting, of extereme beauty, like one form of Šamiš. When one sees Šamiš in this form, a sweet wind breathes upon one, and one swoons away because of its great loveliness. All the images which were made and worshipped later in that place had their origin in the images which these two made.

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Mandaic Story of Qiqel and Death of Yahya

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Amar Annus

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