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...Baghdad was still asleep, 55-year-old Abdul Rahman, a silversmith, padded down to the Tigris and squatted on the eastern bank. Covering his head with his kaffiyeh, he recited the prayer: "In the name of the Great Life, healing and purity are thine, my Father, their Father, Great Yardna of living water." Then he began his ablutions. First he washed his hands and face and cleaned out his ears, snuffed water from his cupped palm into his nostrils three times, washed his loins, bathed his knees and legs three times, dabbled all ten fingers in the river, and finished...
...belong to you.' But do not confess him in your hearts, or deny the voice of your Master, the high King of Light." The Christian Demons. Together with the King of Light, the Mandaeans worship the Great Life, which takes the form of the "living water" or yardna-water flowing in a natural stream. As John baptized in the River Jordan, so the Mandaeans baptize by total immersion, and almost invariably live beside the banks of streams...
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