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Ship in Mandaeism
An 18th-century manuscript of the Scroll of Abatur Bodleian Library , Oxford . The illustration on top depicts the ship Shahrat ferrying Mandaean souls towards the house of Abatur , while the lower illustration shows the tree of Shatrin with the souls of unbaptized children. Carving of a ship carrying Mandaean souls , on the front door of the Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi in Liverpool, New South Wales , Australia. It is based on the manuscript illustration above. In Mandaeism , Shahrat Classical Mandaic : ࡔࡀࡄࡓࡀࡕ , romanized: Šahrat lit. Scroll of Abatur Shahrat ferries souls from Tibil across the river Hitpun and into the house of Abatur .[1] Mandaean priest Brikha Nasoraia (2021), it is basically a "space-ship " traveling "faster than the speed of light" through ayar (ether ) to higher realms.[2] : 71
In Mandaean Book of John [3]
I (Hibil Ziwa ) made a ship for the good,
a ferry of souls carrying them,
over to Abatur's house,
who gives them strength and truth from head to toe. See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ Drower, Ethel S. (1950). Diwan Abatur or Progress through the Purgatories . Studi e Testi. Vol. 151. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. ^ Nasoraia, Brikha H.S. (2021). The Mandaean gnostic religion: worship practice and deep thought . New Delhi: Sterling. ISBN 978-81-950824-1-4 OCLC 1272858968 .^ Haberl, Charles and McGrath, James (2020). The Mandaean Book of John: critical edition, translation, and commentary . Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-048651-3 OCLC 1129155601 . {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link )
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