Shumhata

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The Shumhata (Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡅࡌࡄࡀࡕࡀ, romanized: Šumhata, lit. 'Names') is one of the most commonly recited prayers in Mandaeism.[1]

The rushma is numbered as Prayer 173 in E. S. Drower's version of the Qulasta,[2] which was based on manuscript 53 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 53).[3]

Prayer

Like the Asut Malkia, the Shumhata is a litany which lists following the names (in Drower's 1959 version).[2]

  1. Hayyi Rabbi and Manda d-Hayyi
  2. aina (well-spring)
  3. sindirka (date palm or sandarac[4] tree)
  4. Shishlam Rabba
  5. Zlat
  6. Yawar
  7. Simat Hayyi
  8. Yukabar
  9. Mana and his counterpart
  10. Great Mystery, the mystic Word
  11. S'haq Ziwa
  12. Sam

See also

References

  1. ^ Choheili, Shadan. Rishama and Barakha Rituals. Liverpool, NSW: Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi.
  2. ^ a b Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  3. ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
  4. ^ Gelbert, Carlos (2023). The Key to All the Mysteries of Ginza Rba. Sydney: Living Water Books. pp. 577–584. ISBN 9780648795414.