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Pandama
Left: A Mandaean wearing a burzinqa (turban) and pandama (cloth covering the mouth) with a margna (staff), at a 2019 Parwanaya festival in Maysan Governorate, Iraq
Typemouth-veil
Materialcloth
Place of originsouthern Iraq and southwestern Iran

The pandama ( Classical Mandaic: ࡐࡀࡍࡃࡀࡌࡀ) is a mouth- veil worn by Mandaean men during baptismal ceremonial rituals. It is the lower end of a cloth wrapped around the mouth and lower face to protect from water during immersion. The upper end of the cloth is used as a turban ( burzinqa). [1]

In the Qolasta

Further information: Qolasta § List of prayers

Several prayers in the Qolasta are recited when putting on and loosening the pandama, including prayers 7 and 55. [2]

Symbolism

According to Shahram Ebadfardzadeh, an Iranian-American yalufa (learned Mandaean layperson) in San Antonio, Texas, United States, "when the priest officiates, he is an angel, and his lower face must not be seen, but covered up." [3]: 29 

See also

References

  1. ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people (PDF). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0-19-515385-5. OCLC  65198443.
  2. ^ Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  3. ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias Mandaean Studies. Vol. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN  978-1-4632-4132-2. ISSN  1935-441X.


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