Shumhata
Prayer in Mandaeism
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 Qolasta,[2] which was based on manuscript 53 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 53).[3]
Prayer
Like the Asiet Malkia, the Shumhata is a litany which lists following the names (in Drower's 1959 version).[2]
- Hayyi Rabbi and Manda d-Hayyi
- aina (well-spring)
- sindirka (date palm or sandarac[4] tree)
- Shishlam Rabba
- Zlat
- Yawar
- Simat Hayyi
- Yukabar
- Mana and his counterpart
- Great Mystery, the mystic Word
- S'haq Ziwa
- Sam
See also
- Brakha (daily prayer in Mandaeism)
- Asiet Malkia
- Tabahatan
- Rushma
- Rahma (Mandaeism)
- Qolasta
- Rishama (ablution)
- Tamasha (ablution)
References
- ^ Choheili, Shadan. Rishama and Barakha Rituals. Liverpool, NSW: Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi.
- ^ a b Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
- ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
- ^ Gelbert, Carlos (2023). The Key to All the Mysteries of Ginza Rba. Sydney: Living Water Books. pp. 577–584. ISBN 9780648795414.
