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Ship in Mandaeism
An 18th-century manuscript of the
Scroll of Abatur in the
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. 'she kept watch') is a ship or boat mentioned in the
Scroll of Abatur . Shahrat ferries
souls from
Tibil across the river
Hitpun and into the house of
Abatur .
[1] According to the
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 55:60–61, the ship ferrying souls to the house of Abatur is described as follows.
[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
References
^ 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 . {{
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