Background information
from Drower
Various sections
of the Canonical Prayerbook
Copyists
BOOK OF SOULS Prayers 1-31
MASIQTA Prayers 32-72
The Letter ('ngirta) Prayer 73
COLOPHON #74
HYMNS OF PRAISE Prayers 75-77
The Responses ('niania) Prayers 78-103
The Rusma (Daily Ablution Prayers)--Prayer 104
ASIET MALKIA Prayer 105
Rahmia (Daily Devotional Prayers)--Prayers 106-168
Colophon 169
Tab Taba Ltabia (the full Commemoration prayer forthe dead and living--Prayer 170
Hymns of Praise--Prayers 171-172
Sumhata (The Names)--Prayers 173-176
Little New Year's Feast Prayer--Prayer 177
Prayers for honoring the crown--Prayer 178
Hymns of marriage and a new priest (including the series Kt Azil Bhira Dakia-- Prayer 179-198
Colophon 199
Prayers 200-283
Colophon 284
Prayers 285-304
Coronation Prayers and hymns (including two for myrtle)-- Prayers 305-328
Colophon 329
BANNER HYMNS Prayers 330- 347
Blessed Oblation Prayers and Hymns--Prayers 348- 374
Blessings on the chief celebrant after Blessed Oblation-- Prayers 375-381
Myrtle prayers and hymns--Prayers 382-385
Various prayers 386-409
Prayer of Yahia--Prayer 410
Odd hymns--411- 412
OF THE MANDAEANS
173, 174, 175, 176
The name of the Life and the name of Manda-d-Hiia be pronounced upon thee!
The name of the great mystic Wellspring is pronounced upon thee.
The name of the great mystic First Palmtree is pronounced upon thee.
The naive of the great S'is'lam is pronounced upon thee.
The name of the great 'zlat is pronounced upon thee.
The name of the great Yawar is pronounced upun thee.
The name of Simat-Hiia is pronounced upon thee.
The name of the great Yukabar is pronounced upon thee.
The name of the Mana and his counterpart is pronounced upon thee.
The name of the great Mystery, the mystic Word, is pronounced upon thee.
The name of Shaq-Ziwa the great, the first, is pronounced upon thee.
The name of Sam, the pure, first-produced, beloved and first radiance, is pronounced upon thee.
The name of the Life and the name of Manda-d-Hiia is pronounced upon thee, Adam-Zihrun son of Mahnus'.
May illness, malady, accidents, curses, vows and forfeitures , pains, infirmities, violent fevers, the evil eye and the dimmed eye be loosed and removed from thee.
They shall depart (rise) to the mountains and heights from thy body, spirit and soul, thy trunk and thy, stature and (from) thine entire frame, thine, Adam-Zihrun son of Mahnus', through the strength of my Father, their Father, Manda-d-Hiia, through the strength of the treasure of the First Life and through the strength of Yawar-Zi,va and Simat- Hiia.
And the name of Life and the name of Manda-d-Hiia be pronounced upon thee.
174
I beseech the Life and my Lord Manda-d-Hiia and the 'uthras and kings of the worlds of the light for a sponsor for this high mystery (ginza) so that no lacking or deficiency may appear therein.
Should there be anything missing or deficient, do thou, O Hibil- Ziwa, (thou) great Fulfiller, supplement it from thy treasure which is not deficient and from thy plenty, which lacketh in nothing. Rid it and loose it from its sins, trespasses, follies, stumblings and mistakes, (and) mine, Adam-Zihrun son of Mahnus' who have prayed this prayer and (these) devotions. May there be forgiving of sins for me.
O Sunday, receive it, save it, establish it and raise it up to perfection!
175
In the name of the Great Life.
Then, when she reacheth the Seven Mysteries, servitors of the Seven go forth towards her. They come and surround her and question her and say to her,
"O soul, whence comest thou and whither goest thou ?''
I say to them,
"I come from the Body, the name of which is the Earth and I am going towards the Good Consumination ".
They say to me,
"Whose servant art thou and whose envoy art thou called ?''
I say to them,
"I am the servitor of the Beloved Consummation, and the envoy of the vast Ether".
Then they bless her (me) ; and praise her and guard her and say to her, "Everyone who knoweth this saying will rise towards the Good Goal " because they seek to grasp the mysteries of the Body . And they question her and then she riseth towards the Good Goal.
176
O King of all kings,
O Father of all 'uthras;
O Adatan and Yadatan ;
O Silmay and Nedvay, ye guardian 'uthras of the Jordan ;
O Hibil-Ziwa, great Fulfiller who deliverest us from evil plots and deliverest us from all that is evil and ugly,
O high King of Light, thou wilt give me comeliness of body, compassion of heart, fullness of hand and integrity of eye.
O Life, and my Lord Manda-d-Hiia Thou deliverest me savest me and guardest me.
O high King of Light!
