..A. CREATION
...B. CREATION AND THE FLOOD
...C. THE CREATION OF MAN
...D. AND E. THE FLOOD
...F. THE MANDAEAN NATION
...G. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE RED SEA STORY
#2--OF ABRAHAM AND YURBA
#3--HOW HIBIL ZIWA FETCHED RUHA FROM THE DARKNESS
#4--THE STORY OF QIQEL AND THE DEATH OF YAHYA
#5-- NEBUCHADNEZZAR`S DAUGHTER
#6--SUN STORIES
#7-- THE BRIDGE AT SHUSTER
#8-- THE FIRE-WORSHIPPER AND ADAM BUL FARAJ
#9-- HOW DANA NUK VISITED THE SEVENTH HEAVEN
#10-- THE MILLENNIUM
#11-- CONCERNING THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MADDAI AND HOW THE TURKS CAME TO TAKE IT
#12-- HOW THE MANDAI AND THEIR GANZIBRA LEFT THE MOUNTAIN FOR A BETTER COUNTRY
#13-- THE CHILD CONCEIVED ON THE 29th NIGHT OF THE MOON
#14-- THE KANSHI UZAHLA
#15-- THE HAUNTINGS
#16-- THE PLAGUE IN SHUSTER
#17-- THE STONE-THROWING
#18-- THE KAFTAR
#19-- BIBI`S SONS AND THEIR STRANGE ADVENTURE
#20-- SHAIKH ZIBID
#21-- OF BEHOLDING EVENTS IN TRANCE
#22-- HOW EVIL SPIRITS ABUSE THE DEAD, ETC.
#23-- MEN WHO HAVE RETURNED FROM DEATH, ETC.
#24-- OF THE POWER T0 SEE SPIRITS
#25-- THE SIMURGH: THE TRUE HISTORY OF RUSTAM AND HIS SON
#26-- HIRMIZ SHAH
#27--THE MAN WHO SOUGHT TO SEE SIN THE MOON
#28-- THE SIMURGH AND HIRMIZ SHAH
THE FLOOD, ETC.
Hiwel Ziwa brought a woman named Ruhayya from the seventh underworld of darkness, and she was pregnant. Hiwel Ziwa left her guarded in the upper worlds of darkness and returned to Mshuni Kushta to say what he had done. He was absent for thousands of years. Ruhayya brought forth the monster 'Ur. When born, 'Ur said to his mother "Why are we alone, we two, in this world. She replied that his father was a melka named Ashdum (Shdum) and that he had many relatives amongst the melki. 'Ur was of enormous size. He shouted until the worlds of light shook. Hiwel Ziwa came down from Mshuni Kushta and Ruhayya gave 'Ur a glass with which he could see his people in his world of light. But Hiwel Ziwa was wearing a talismanic face and was invisible, so, without being seen, he snatched the glass from 'Ur, captured him, imprisoned him, and confined him beneath the world in Ara d Nahasha, the Copper Earth and the seven material worlds were above him.
His mother followed him below and became his wife. She bore him seven children, and Hiwel Ziwa put each child into a planet. Th planets are creatures of God and each has a spirit in it. The name of these seven are Shamish, Sin or Sera, Nirigh, Bel, Enwo, Liwet and Kiwan. At a second birth she produced the Signs of the Zodiac. The planets rule this world of darkness. Thus, Nirigh is the ruler of war, Enwo of science and wisdom, Liwet of love and of inventions such as the aeroplane. The planets are ships in which the melki who rule them ride. In the ship of Shamish is a banner, and from it streams the light of God, for it reflects it and transmits its rays to the world. Thus are constituted the world of light and darkness, the world of truth and not-truth.
The son of Hiwel Ziwa, Pthahil, by order of his father opened the sky, cooled the earth, loosed fountains and rivers, founded mountains, made fish and birds, flowers with their seeds, and animals for Adam and his descendents. Awathur (Abathur) and his son (i.e. Pthahil) looked at their own bodies and thought of them and so produced the body of Adam Paghra (the physical Adam). From Adam's rib was taken Hawa his wife. Exactly as there was an Adam Paghrra and a Hawa Paghra, there was an Adam Kasia and a Hawa Kasia (Occult Adam and Eve). These and their progeny peopled the world of Mshuni Kushta. Adam had six children, three boys and three girls. The names of the three boys were Adam, Shitel, and Annosh. Adam son of Adam took a wife from amongst the children of darkness, for the world was inhabited before the creation of Adam by shiviahi (shibiahia), children of blackness and darkness. From this union sprang children of darkness, those of humanity who are not Mandai. The Mandai are the children of Adam Paghra and Hawa Kasia. The other two sons of Adam, Shitel and Annosh followed the teaching, which Hiwel Ziwa gave their father. Hiwel Ziwa taught Adam the secrets of life, gave him the holy book, and instructed him in the arts of agriculture and writing.
Narrator: a ganzibra(Drower gives no name)
