What next, articles expressing concern about Mandaean fundamentalism? Krymchak ethnic nationalism?

You know, I don’t really know the answer to that. Gonna have to find a late-antique Jewish/Christian/Mandaean mystical practitioner to ask advice from.

im fucking entranced by what mandaean art looks like

So excited to see the release of @haberl.bsky.social’s translation of a late Sasanian Mandaean universal history buried somewhere inside Ganza Rabba!

liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2022/05/25/r...

An important Mandaean gnostic text, the Sidra d'Yahya/Draša d'Yahya/d'Yuhana, exemplifies this. The two forms, Yaḥyā and Yuḥanā, were often used side by side.
www.iranicaonline.org/articles/man...

local Mandaean provides better spiritual advice/clarification than most ive known, i remain unsurprised

right but the Gospels seem awfully insistent on establishing that Jesus was superior to John, not crazy to think that that was aimed at someone (proto-Mandaean or otherwise)

I had a professor once who was a Mandaean from Iraq. He only talked about it a little bit but it was quite fascinating to hear the story from an actual Mandaean.

nah she's iraqi and her family's been mandaean forever

#OTD 146 years ago, Ethel S. Drower (1879–1972) was born 🎉 She published a number of romantic novels under her maiden name Stevens, but later became an authority on Mandaean culture and an important collector of Mandaean manuscripts.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

I’d be so angry were I Mandaean

I haven't had time to read the books you recommended yet 😭 what's the mandaean concept of humanity?

Calling all #AARSBL delegates interested in Mandaeism, remember to attend this session today at 5PM. #Mandaean #ConferenceSession #Boston

“No water, no life.”

(Sheikh Nidham, a Mandaean religious leader living in the southern Iraqi city of Amarah)

#collapse

Krun Macula -- Krun is the lord of the underworld in the Mandaean religion, and a macula is a dark feature on a planetary surface -- is believed to get its dark red color from tholins, complex molecules found across Pluto.

What about rivers makes them so heavenly?

In Mandaeism, a gnostic faith from Iraq that reveres John the Baptist, rivers are nourished by heaven and their 'living water' used in weekly baptism rituals

Although holding many rivers sacred, its holy book often describes Iraq's Euphrates as 'heavenly'

Of course, and you got me on a fun tangent researching Mandaean literature :)