Mandaean Oral Traditions and Folklore

#10---THE MILLENNIUM
#1--LEGENDS OF CREATION, THE FLOOD, ETC.
...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
At the end of the world the King of Darkness will be strong, and there will be great wars.

The world will be all but destroyed by something which puts death into the air and into the water--people will breathe and drink and will die.

Then seven great rulers will meet together in one place and will say to each other, "Why fight any longer! Why should all human beings die?" and they will make a solemn pact to share all knowledge and secrets with each other.

When they are gathered together in conclave, a spirit will descend and talk to one of them.

He will not see it, but the others will gaze at it and perceive it, and say to that one, "What did the spirit tell you?" He will answer, "There was no spirit! I talked to no one."

They will say, "Tell us what the spirit said, or die!"

He will affirm, "There was no spirit--I heard and saw nothing!" Then they will kill him.

After that, the spirit will come to another of them, and he too will deny that he has spoken with him or seen him (and be speaking truth, though they will not believe hint).

Him also the others will kill. So it will happen until six have been slain and only one remains.

He will be wise with secret knowledge from Shamish, and will rule over all in peace.

There will be but one religion in all the world, and all will live in concord and happiness.

Hii. From these four come the strength and life of Shamish
The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran
By E.S. Drower Clarendon Press, Oxford,1937  (Reprint Leiden:E.J. Brill 1962) pages  308-309
Narrator: Hirmiz bar Anhar