Miryai Saga
Miryai is Expelled from Jewry
A Variant of the Above from the Oxford Manuscript
The Exiled Community Settle on the Euphrates
The Jews Persecute the Mandaeans
They Beg Then to Return
Yahi-Yohanna Saga
Portents of John`s Birth
John`s Proclamation concerning himself
and his assumption of the Prophet's mantle
John`s Light-Ship
John the Ascetic
Of Judgement Day
The Letter of Truth
John`s Invulnerability
John and the Baptism of Jesus
John's Marriage
John on His own Passing
John's Birth , Uprising, and First Appearance
John's Answer to Jesus Concerning the Angel of Death
Fisher Saga
The Fisher of Souls Saga
The Light Ship of the Fisher
The Good Fisher Rejects the Overtures
of the Evil Ones and Overwhelms Them
The Final Submission of the Evil Fishers
Good Shepherd Prayers
THE LOVING SHEPHERDS
OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Odds and Ends
The Song of the Poor's Exhaltation
Exhortations
In the Beginning
The Treasury of Life
Yahya proclaims in the nights and speaks: "The (heavenly) wheels and chariots quaked. Earth and Heaven weep and the tears of the Clouds flow down."
" My father," says Yahya, " was ninety and nine and my mother eighty and eight years old. Out of the basin of Jordan they took me. They bore me up and laid me in the womb of Enishbai. 'Nine months,' said they, 'thou shalt stay in her womb, as do all other children.' "No wise woman' said he, "brought
me into the world in Judea, and they have not cut my cord in Jerusalem. They made for me no picture of lies, and for me hung up no bell of deceit. I was horn from Enishbai in the region of Jerusalem."
The region of Jerusalem quakes and the wall of the priest rocks. Elizar, the great house, stands there and his body trembles. The Jews gather together, come unto Old Father Zakhria and they speak to him: "O Old Father Zakhria thou art to have a son. Tell us now, what name shall we give him? Shall we give him for name, 'Yaqif of Wisdom' that he may teach the Book in Jerusalem? Or shall we give him the name 'Zatan the Pillar' so that the Jews may swear by him and commit no deceit."
When Enishbai hear this she cried out and she said: "Of all these names which you name will I not give him one: but the name Yahya-Yohana will I give him (the name) which Life's self has given unto him."
When the Jews heard this they were filled with wicked anger against her and said: "What weapon shall we make ready for (a certain) one and his mother that he be slain by our hand?"
When Anosh the treasurer hear this he took the child and brought it to Parwan the white mountain to Mount Parwan on which sucklings and little ones on holy drinks are reared up."
(There I remained) until I was two and twenty years old. I learned there the whole of my wisdom and made fully my own the whole of my discourse. They clothed me with vestures of glory and veiled me with cloud-veils. They wound round me a girdle of (living) water a girdle, which shone beyond measure and glistened. They set me within a cloud, a, cloud of splendor, and in the seventh hour of a Sunday they brought me to the Jerusalem region. Then cried a voice in Judea, a crying proclaimed in Jerusalem. They call out: "What woman had a son, who then was stolen? What woman has made for him a vow and been heedless about it? Whet woman had a son who was stolen? Let her come and see after her son."
Who told Battai, who instructed Battai, who told Battai to go and say to Enishbai: " A youth has come to Judea, a prophet come to Jerusalem. A youth has come to Judea: his guardian angel stands by him. His mouth is like thee and his lips like his father, Old Father Zakhria. His eyes are like thee and his brows like his father, Old Father Zakhria. His nose is like thee and his hands like his father, Old Father Zakhria
When Enishbai heard this, she hurried out veil-less. When Old Father Zakhria saw her thus, he wrote her a bill of divorcement. The Sun down--murmured from heaven and the Moon from its place mid the stars. The Sun opened his mouth and spake to Old Father Zakhria, in Jerusalem: "Old Father Zakhria, thou great dotard (?), who has grown old and lost his wits, like an Arab whom his kismet has forsaken. A youth has come to Judea, a prophet come to Jerusalem. B youth has come to Judea: why dost thou send Enishbai away!
When the youth saw her alone, he set himself free and fell down from the cloud. He set himself free and fell down from the cloud and kissed the mouth of Enishbai. When Anosh, the treasure, saw him [do this],he spoke unto Yahya in Jerusalem: " Stands it for thee written in thy hook, is it declared unto thee on thy page, to kiss her alone, on the mouth ? "-Thereon answered Yahya and spake unto Anosh, the treasure, in Jerusalem: " Nine months I abode in her womb, so long as all other children abide there, without any reluctance on her part; therefore is it no charge against me now to kiss her alone, on the mouth. Nay, hail and again hail to the man who repays father and mother in full. A man who recompenses father and mother, has not his like in the world."
When Yahya said this, Anosh, the treasure, knew that Yahya is wise. Thereon Anosh, the treasure, spake to the Sun in Jerusalem: "Take for me care of the youth, the Man, who is sent by the King. Take for me care of the youth, until we ask for him."
Then Anosh, the treasure, spake to the Moon in Jerusalem: " Take for me care of the youth, the Man, who is sent by the King. Take for me care of the youth, until we ask for him.
Life is exalted end is victorious, and victorious is the Man who has come-hither.
Miryai Saga
Miryai is Expelled from Jewry
A Variant of the Above from the Oxford Manuscript
The Exiled Community Settle on the Euphrates
The Jews Persecute the Mandaeans
They Beg Then to Return
Yahi-Yohanna Saga
Portents of John`s Birth
John`s Proclamation concerning himself
and his assumption of the Prophet's mantle
John`s Light-Ship
John the Ascetic
Of Judgement Day
The Letter of Truth
John`s Invulnerability
John and the Baptism of Jesus
John's Marriage
John on His own Passing
John's Birth , Uprising, and First Appearance
John's Answer to Jesus Concerning the Angel of Death
Fisher Saga
The Fisher of Souls Saga
The Light Ship of the Fisher
The Good Fisher Rejects the Overtures
of the Evil Ones and Overwhelms Them
The Final Submission of the Evil Fishers
Good Shepherd Prayers
THE LOVING SHEPHERDS
OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Odds and Ends
The Song of the Poor's Exhaltation
Exhortations
In the Beginning
The Treasury of Life
Mandaean John-Book by G.R.S. Mead pages 56 - 59
