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	Mandeans
		The ethics of Mandeans are not all too different from Jewish ethics and their laws apply to all Mandeans, man or woman, leaders or not.
		The Mandeans appears first to have gained a strong position in Babylon, but lost this with the appearance of the Sassinids in year 226.
		Mandean laymen are often highly educated, but know little of the old language and the scripts, and they attend ceremonies only seldom, as in weddings.
	i-cias.com /e.o/mandeans.htm (936 words)

	Mandeism
		Mandeans follow a complex system of morals, but the main prohibitions are: blasphemy, murder, adultery, theft, lying and perjury, being disloyal, lust, magic, circumcision, drinking alcohol, charging interest, mourning the dead, divorce, suicide, and self-mutilation (including tattoos and piercing).
		The Mandean calender has 12 months of 30 days each, intercalary days make up the difference, and are the time of the greatest mandean feast, the Panja.
		Mandeans follow the teachings of John the Baptist, and practice weekly baptism as a sacrement.
	individual14.tripod.com /id25.html (179 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first appearance of the Mandeans ocurred during the fourth century B.C.E. and grew with the Hellenistic expansion.
		The Mandean rite of Baptism, which was so important in their belief, has led some historians and religious writers to form the initial link between Jesus Christ and gnosticism through Christ's mentor, John the Baptist.
		Mandean compositions often open with an invocation to the "great Alien Life." This conception of God as alien, and yet supreme, is central to gnosticism and finds a counterpart in man which is, likewise, alien to this world and, potentially, able to transcend it.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/522/57409 (445 words)

	Darkfall Chronicles - Races: Alfars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Harn Mandean is an elite brotherhood of alfar knights, which serves as Melek’s internal security unit, enforcing his will throughout Nagast.
		In their unceasing work to weed out traitors and incompetents, the Harn Mandean is given semi-free rein: their mandate is broad with vague limits, and its leaders answer only to the Horned Circle and to Melek himself.
		Their breastplates and cloaks are adorned with the mark of the Harn Mandean: The thinly etched outline of a red hand with fingers spread.
	www.darkfallchronicles.com /alfars9.htm (632 words)

	CHN Photo Agency
		Ancient "Sabaean Mandean" religious sect preforming the ritual of cleansing during an annual baptism on the shores of the Karoun River, Khuzestan province, southeast Iran.
		Water is everything to the Sabaean Mandeans who are baptized in it, get married in it, and receive their last rites by the river's edge.
		Followers of the ancient religious minority believe there are between 80,000 to 200,000 Sabaean Mandeans in the world, with the vast majority of them in Iraq, They generally do not accept converts.
	www.chnphotoagency.ir /gallery.php?gallery_uid=60&lang=en (97 words)

	USNews.com: The Sabaean Mandeans of Iraq continue their baptisms, keeping an ancient religion alive (6/9/03)
		In past years, some Iraqis have pelted Mandeans with stones from a nearby highway overpass during the Golden Day of Baptism celebrations, which mark the anniversary of John the Baptist's baptism of Jesus.
		Mandeans can eat only fish with scales, for example, and they must also perform ritual fasting 36 different days of the year.
		In Iraq, Mandeans have adopted many Muslim cultural practices to better blend in, even adopting Arabic names instead of using their religiously rooted names in the ancient Mandean language.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/culture/articles/030609/9mandeans_2.htm (535 words)

	ummah.com forum - Mandeans
		It could actually be John the Baptist who founded the sect, or they could be a continuation of the Jewish sect that John the Baptist belonged to (guessed to be the Esseneans).
		Hundreds of Sabaean Mandeans, a tiny sect that views John the Baptist as saviour, waited in line in gauzy, white tunics to submerge themselves in the ancient river.
		The Sabaean Mandeans were celebrating the eve of their first New Year since the fall of Saddam Hussein, and many said they were just as worried about the future as they were happy to see the dictator go.
	www.ummah.net /forum/printthread.php?t=25620 (1673 words)

	Who are the Mandeans? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I was then told the few remaining Mandeans, living in the heart of Iraq, were on the brink of extinction, and, that the Mandeans might possibly be the remnant of truth from beyond the shadows of all other religions.
		It is only Mandeans and non-sinners who manages to pass the whole journey everyone else end in hell.
		There is no connection between the movie and the Mandeans, but I was looking for places in Iraq the movie might have taken place, and came across the Mandeans.
	www.iraq-war.ru /article/63978 (1069 words)

	DetikCom * Muslims Assault Non-muslims In Immigration Detention Centres Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In December 2001 an eighteen-year-old Mandean girl (a small religious group which follows the teachings of John the Baptist) was shouted at by Muslim men in a dining hall who called her a "dirty, filthy infidel" who shouldn't be allowed to serve food to Muslims.
		When she attempted to argue back she was "pushed to the ground and kicked and abused." In a similarly shocking incident a blind Mandean man was seized by Muslim men, held down and defecated on before being left in a locked toilet.
		In Woomera Mandeans are now even allegedly forced to hold their religious meetings in secret, and in Curtin no Mandean services are being held at all because the authorities simply cannot guarantee the protection of the participants, and even Christian services, including baptisms, have been severely restricted.
	www.geocities.com /unpatti67/barnabasfund230502.htm (759 words)

	Iraq chaos threatens ancient faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their central religious ceremony is baptism in flowing water, first in childhood, then marriage and at any time an individual wants to be cleansed of sin or make a life change.
		Maajis Saeb, a Mandean priest, says there are not enough men of religion to serve the various diaspora communities.
		Luay Zahran Habib, a researcher in Mandeanism, is even more pessimistic: "Mandeanism may be finished in a few years' time if we're not gathered together somewhere, because it will be difficult to find marriage partners and perform our ceremonies.
	www.almendhar.com /english_6352/news.aspx (759 words)

	Darkfall Warcry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was built in his honour, and its outlandish beauty reflects the alfar’s love of their God-King, as well as the dark awe he inspires in them.
		The city serves as an administrative centre for the entire realm, and it is jointly run by the priests and the knights of the Harn Mandean (Divine Hand), a powerful knightly order which functions as Melek’s bodyguard and his secret police.
		On particularly dangerous assignments, the Black Robes are commanded by knights from the Harn Mandean, which both outrank the officers of the Black Robe Brotherhood and are more powerful individually.
	df.warcry.com /index.php/content/races/alfar.php (6770 words)

	Mandaean Courses Offered
		As he is Mandean himself, he has an unparalleled insight into the religious ideas and customs of this little known gnostic religion.
		The Ginza is the main scripture of the Mandean religion and contains the fundamental teachings of this religion.
		In the course The traditional pronunciation of Mandean, sound recordings will be used to illustrate how the priests of today pronounce classical Mandean.
	www.mandaeanworld.com /Press3.html (247 words)

	DISABLED PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Speaking to the Athlone News, Ms Mandean, 30, was over the moon about the invitation: `I am terribly excited and honoured to have been asked by the Norwegian Blind Association to go over to get their physically disabled people involved in the game of blind cricket.
		Blind cricket is played similarly to the non-disabled game, but makes use of other specialised equipment like a plastic ball filled with iron, so that the blind players can hear the ball, instead of relying on their sight alone.
		The dream of a Paralympic medal does not seem to be only Jane Mandean`s, the entire Athlone community is pushing for this bubbly and inspirational woman to reach her destiny.
	www.dpsa.org.za /displayArticle.asp?id=109 (586 words)

	ipedia.com: Iraq Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Almost 75% of Iraq's population consists of Arabic speakers (mainly Iraqi but some Hejazi); the other major ethnic group are the Kurds (20%), who live in the north and north-east of the country.
		Other distinct groups are Turkomans, East Arameans (consisting of Christian Assyrians and Mandean Babylonians), Iranians, Lurs, Armenians and Yezidis (possible dessendants of the ancient Sumerian culture).
		Arabic is the official language, although Kurdish has an official status in the North and English is the most commonly spoken Western language.
	www.ipedia.com /iraq.html (1499 words)

	Mandeism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mandean calendar has twelve months of thirty days each; the intercalary days make up the difference, and are the time of the Greatest Mandean feast, the Panja.
		The Mandeans are considered by Muslims to be "People of the Book" and the Sabeans of Koranic legend, but Mandeans give Mohammed less credit even than Jesus, identifying him as a demon.
		Symbols: The main symbol of the Mandean faith is a cross swathed in fabric, surmounted by a wreath.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/mandeism.htm (446 words)

	McKitrick Timeline
		23 Mandean: Rabban is released from dungeon at Judith's intercession.
		YR 219, 3 Johore: Kirtley and Friedrich of Tudor marry.
		YR 224, 20 Mandean: Rabban accused of Duke McMannon's murder.
	www.castergine.com /stuart/bby/mckitrick_timeline.html (590 words)

	Dhimmi Watch: Jewish school bus set alight
		They are de rigueur, when one feels "humiliated." In 1933, a few months after the British finally left Iraq, the Arabs let off steam at their long years of occupation by massacring nearly 100,000 Christian Assyrians.
		Elsewhere in Iraq precious Mandean manuscripts, thousands of years old, have just been destroyed by Muslims.
		If you can't attack (as yet) the Western Christians head on, by all means Jews, Mandeans, Assyrians, Maronites, Copts will do by way of warmup.
	www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/000699.php (333 words)

	Mandaean World
		Thanks to all who supported the Mandaean Campaign to free Mandaeans held in the detention camps in Australia
		Mandean World will be upgrading the site from now till whenever.
		Use the Table of Contents to access all the new links for now.
	www.mandaeanworld.com (218 words)

	Diabetic Travel Tales - To Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All applicable sales tax will be paid by Mandean Press.
		For retailers, or to order for your organization or company, contact the publisher at Orders@DiabeticTravelTales.com.
		10% of the sale proceeds received by Mandean Press from the sale of Diabetic Travel Tales and Tips will be donated to nonprofit organizations and designated to be used to find a cure for diabetes.
	www.diabetictraveltales.com /toorder.htm (88 words)

	Dhimmi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The root of "dhimmi" comes from the (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic root "dh-m-m", where "dhimma" means "being in the care of".
		Over time Muslims extended this category to (Follower of Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism) Zoroastrians, (The form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans) Mandeans, and (An adherent of Sikhism) Sikhs.
		Many, but not all, extend this to (A person who adheres to Hinduism) Hindus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dh/dhimmi.htm (1861 words)

	Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 16 October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul reported that the religious minorities inhabiting the Ninwa Valley – Chaldaean Assyrians, Mandean Sabaeans, and Yazidis, voted in the American-backed referendum on the US-sponsored “Constitution” on Saturday and turned it down.
		The correspondent reported Shaykh ‘Abd ar-Rabb a religious leader of the Mandean Sabaeans, as saying that the members of his religious sect all voted no to the American-sponsored “Constitution,” saying that it was close to the Iranian constitution and it contradicted the unity of Iraq.
		He said his community therefore joined the Sunni Muslims in rejecting it.
	www.albasrah.net /en_articles_2005/1005/iraqiresistancereport_161005.htm (1612 words)

	The Reunion Institute - Upcoming Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tabor will consider texts from a Hebrew version of Matthew, Slavonic Josephus, and Mandean materials that shed light on this important subject.
		He will also offer a firsthand report on the Harvard Conference on the Mandeans held in June of this year.
		This will include slides illustrating the ancient Mandean rite of baptism, carried out by Mandean priests in the Charles River in Boston, as part of the Harvard conference.
	www.reunioninstitute.com /upcoming.html (364 words)

	Where is Raed? - the photographic supplement [I am working my way up to Pax TV] - Fotopages.com
		today is the day of the Abolution for the Mandeans.
		during these 36 hours there are no angels of light to protect the Mandeans, that is why they spend that time indoors.
		after 36 hours they go out and celebrate the Mandean new year.
	salampax.fotopages.com (974 words)

	Overview of Gnosticism
		Gnosticism usually refers to an esoteric cult of divine knowledge (a synthesis of Christianity, Judaism, Greek philosophy, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the mystery cults of the Mediterranean), which flourished during the 2nd and 3rd centuries and was a rival to, and influence on, early Christianity.
		The medieval French Cathar heresy and the modern Mandean sect (in southern Iraq) descend from Gnosticism.
		Gnostic 4th-century codices discovered in Egypt in the 1940s include the Gospel of St Thomas (unconnected with the disciple) and the Gospel of Mary, probably originating about
	www.sullivan-county.com /id2/gnosticism.htm (3101 words)

	Adherents.com
		"It has been established that Mani was familiar with the views of the Mandeans, a baptist sect still existing in Iraq, most probably originating from Palestine...
		The Joy of Sects: A Spirited Guide to the World's Religious Traditions.
		also called Sabians or Mandeans, and survive as a small sect of 2000, holding John the baptist as the true prophet.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_434.html (3896 words)

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