Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Drower, Ethel S. 1879-1972 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Clarendon Press 1937
Schlagworte:	Mandaeans Mandäer
Beschreibung:	Contents: The Mandaeans (or Subba) of Iraq and Iran -- Mandaean religious literature -- Ritual dress and insignia -- Lay life -- Marriage -- Cosmogony, astrology, and holy-days -- Baptism --- The Manda or cult-hut -- The priesthood : consecration of the priest, or Tarmida -- The priesthood : the high priest or Ganzibra -- Death and rites for the souls of the dead -- Eating for the dead -- The Parsi ritual meals -- The Mandaean alphabet -- Legends, magic, and folk-lore -- Legends of creation, the flood, etc. -- Of Abraham and Yurba -- How Hibil Ziwa fetched Ruha from the darkness -- The story of Qiqel and the death of Yahya -- Nebuchadnezzar's daughter -- Sun stories -- The bridge at Shuster -- The fire-worshipper and Adam Bul Faraj -- How Dana Nuk visited the seventh heaven -- The millennium -- Concerning the mountain of the Maddai and how the Turks came to take it -- How the Mandai and their Ganzibra left the mountain for a better country -- The child conceived on the 29th night of the moon -- The Kanshi uZahla -- The hauntings -- The plague in Shuster -- The stone-throwing -- The Kaftār -- Bibi's sons and their strange adventure -- Shaikh Zibid -- Of beholding events in trance -- How evil spirits abuse the dead, etc. -- Men who have returned from death, etc. -- Of the power to see spirits -- The Simugh : the true history of Rustam and his son -- Hirmiz Shāh -- The man who sought to see sin, the moon -- The Simugh and Hirmiz Shāh
Beschreibung:	XXV, 436 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm