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| Mandaic: Alphabet |
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| O (A) - the Highest of all - Perfection, Light and Life, the beginning and end of all things Ba - (Ab). The Great Father Ga - (1) : Gauriil Ishliha - Gabriel the Messenger (2):Gimra anat Gmira - Perfection thou art Perfect Da - Dirka - the way or law Ha - (1): Hiia rbia. The Great Life (2): Hibil Ziwa. Wa - Weyli! (written Wailh). Woe to him who listens not to the language of light! Za - Ziwa--The word means radiance or rather active light active. The character is evidently a pictograph of the sun above the horizon or he sun as a life-giver Eh - This Letter is so sacred that it is not much employed. It represents the Eye of God. T'a - (1) Tab - Good (pronouned Tau) (2) It is the bird (tayr) representing the soul leaving the body to return (to the World of Light). This is clearly the pictograph of a flying bird, symbol of the freed soul, the mana winging its way back to the Great Mana. Ya - (1) Yowmono -the day (2) Yamin - the right - the right is symbolic of Light the left of darkness, the right of being and the left of non-being. Ka - (1) Klila - The Myrtle Wreath (2) Kushta - Truth, right-dealing, righteous La - Lishan - the tongue which praises Ma - Mana Rba Kabira. - The Great First Mind or Soul Na - Nhura - Light Sa - Simat Hiia - the mother of all life ' Ain - the Eye or Fountain (not a guttural in Mandaic merely a vowel) Pa - Pira anat Haiy - Thou art the tree of Life S'a - S'auta abar qadmaiia. Thou art the First Voice (sound) Qa - Qala anat qadmaiia d' Hiia -. Thou art the first cry of Life Sha - Shamish (sun spirit) Ta - Toba - repentance Adu - this is counted as a letter always though it is the possessive particle A - O first letter. |
| The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran By E.S. Drower Clarendon Press, Oxford,1937 (Reprint Leiden:E.J. Brill 1962) page 241 |