Mandaean Oral Traditions and Folklore

LEGENDS OF CREATION,   THE FLOOD, ETC. 
  
   1 A. Creation
#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
Before all, Melka Ziwa was. When he came into he created five beings of light, and simultaneously there was darkness, for wherever there is form there are opposites. If right exists, left exists, and the left side of the body, which is the portion of darkness, is the weaker.

As there were five primal beings of light, there were five primal beings of darkness. Their names are: Akrun (Krun), their lord; Ashdum (SHdum); Gaf and Gafan; Hag and Magh: an Zargi-Zargana (Zartai-Zartana). Gafan and Magh are the female complements of their lords. The darkness produced the three lords of the skandola and their names were in the shape in which they appear in the skandola.

Melka Ziwa is the source of all life. Rays of light and life come from him and are transmitted to the sun and to the planets by the four melki in the North Star, whose names are Arhum Hiia, Ziv Hii, In Hii, and Som Hii or Sam 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)  page 251
Narrator: a yulufa (Drower gives no name)