Processional astrology the astronomy of the precession of the equox.
Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno-Karabakh. |
John is mentioned by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus[21] and revered as a major religious figure[22] in Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith,[23] the Druze Faith, and Mandaeism. He is considered to be a prophet of God by all of these faiths, and is honoured as a saint in many Christian denominations. According to the New Testament, John anticipated a messianic figure greater than himself,[24] and the Gospels portray John as the precursor or forerunner of Jesus,[25] since John announces Jesus' coming and prepares the people for Jesus' ministry. Jesus himself identifies John as "Elijah who is to come",[26] which is a direct reference to the Book of Malachi (Malachi 4:5),[27] that has been confirmed by the angel who announced John's birth to his father, Zechariah.[28] According to the Gospel of Luke, John and Jesus were relatives.[29][30]
Some scholars maintain that John belonged to the Essenes, a semi-ascetic Jewish sect who expected a messiah and practiced ritual baptism.
In Mandaeism, Manda d-Hayyi or Manda ḏ-Hiia, lit. the 'Gnosis of Life', 'Knowledge of Life', or 'Knower of the Life') is an uthra sent by the Great Life (Hayyi Rabbi, or the Transcendent God) as a messenger to John the Baptist. Manda d-Hayyi is considered to be the most important uthra, since he is the one bringing manda (knowledge or gnosis) to Earth (Tibil). Early historians identified the Sabians with the ancient Jewish Christian group the Elcesaites, ( Elcesaites, from which the prophet Mani seceded) and with Gnostic groups such as the Hermeticists and the Mandaeans.
Principle beliefs
- Recognition of one God known as Hayyi Rabbi, meaning The Great Life or The Great Living (God), whose symbol is 'Living Water' (Yardena). It is therefore necessary for Mandaeans to live near rivers.[28]
- Power of Light, which is personified by Melka d'Nhura ('King of Light'), another name for Hayyi Rabbi, and the Uthra (angels or guardians) that provide health, strength, virtue and justice.[28]
- Immortality of the soul; the fate of the soul is the main concern with the belief in the next life where there is reward and punishment. There is no eternal punishment since God is merciful.[2
In Mandaeism, Rūha (lit. 'spirit' or 'breath'; also known as Namrūs or Hiwat (Ewath) is the queen of the World of Darkness (alma d-hšuka) or underworld.[ She rules the underworld together with her son Ur, the king of the World of Darkness, and her entourage of the seven planets and twelve constellations, who are also her offspring with Ur.
Ruha is the daughter of Qin, the Mistress of Darkness in the first underworld. She is the ruler of the third maṭarta (watch-house or purgatory). She is associated with lust, uncleanness (i.e., menstrual impurity), and other negative feminine qualities. Her epithets include Sumqaq and other names.In Book 8 of the Right Ginza, Manda d-Hayyi warns the faithful against the dangers of Ruha.
In the Mandaean Book of John and Book 3 of the Right Ginza, Manda d-Hayyi makes a journey into the World of Darkness (underworld), where he meets Gaf and other demons and triumphs against them.
Manda d-Hayyi is sometimes portrayed as harbouring a grudge against Yushamin. In the eighth chapter of the Book of John, Manda d-Hayyi opposes a petition to the King of Light for forgiveness for Yushamin brought by Yushamin's son Nṣab Ziwa (Classical Mandaic: 'Splendid Plant'), and is rebuked by the King of Light for hating Yushamin due to Yushamin having refused him a wife from his family. According to the Right Ginza, the weapons of Manda d-Hayyi are:
- Radiance and Light (Ziwa u Nhūra)
- a great attire
- the margna (staff) of Living Water (Mia Hayya)
- the wreath of the Living Flame (ʿŠata Haita)
- the arm or of the Great Ones
- a mace (club)
- a veil (or a net?)
- a robe of the great ones
MOSES CHORENESIS = HUMANITARIAN SWORD
Movses Khorenatsi (ca. 410–490s AD. MOVSES was 21 when MESROP was 69.
"For even though we are small and very limited in numbers and have been conquered many times by foreign kingdoms, yet too, many acts of bravery have been performed in our land, worthy of being written and remembered, but of which no one has bothered to write down."[
The History of Armenia was written at the behest of Prince Sahak of the Bagratuni dynasty and has had an enormous impact on Armenian historiography.
The History of Armenia was written at the behest of Prince Sahak of the Bagratuni dynasty and has had an enormous impact on Armenian historiography.
Mesrobes Mastosius; 362 – February 17, 440 AD) was an early medieval Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman and hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Armenian Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.[2] He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity.[3] He is also considered to be the creator of the Caucasian Albanian and Georgian alphabets by some scholars.
There are historical records that attest the presence of Jews in pagan Armenia, before the spread of Christianity in the region by St. Gregory the Illuminator in 301 AD. Early medieval Armenian historians, such as Moses Khorenatsi, held that during the conquest of Armenian King Tigranes the Great (95–55 BC)brought with him 10,000 Jewish captives to the ancient Kingdom of Armenia (which encompassed what is commonly known as Greater Armenia) when he retreated from Judea, because of the Roman attack on Armenia (69 BC). Tigranes II invaded Syria, and probably northern Israel as well. A large Jewish population was settled in Armenia from the 1st century BC. One city in particular, Vartkesavan became an important commercial center. Thus, Armenia's Jewish community was established. Like the rest of Armenia's population, they suffered the consequences of regional powers trying to divide and conquer the country. By 360–370 AD, there was a massive increase in Jewish Hellenistic immigration into Armenia; many Armenian towns became predominately Jewish. During this period (4th century AD), after the conquest of Armenia by the Sassanid King Shapur II deported thousands of Jewish families from Persian Armenia and resettled them at Isfahan (modern Iran).
NAXARAR, term given to the para-feudal, social pattern that early Armenia apparently shared with Parthian Iran, although it was preserved into the Sasanian period and beyond. The earliest stages of this system cannot be ascertained with precision given the scantiness of the surviving sources. However, its decentralized character and the linguistic evidence point to an early date near or even preceding the beginning of the Christian era. That evidence was first demonstrated in the extensive works of Emile Benveniste, who linked the majority of Iranian loanwords in classical Armenian to Middle Parthian rather than to Sasanian Pahlavi. The system’s best-known period covers the 4th to 7th centuries CE.
It is quite common in all parts of the world for members of the nobility to purport to trace their ancestry back to gods, or legendary heroes. Besides that, according to legend the Bagratuni dynasty has origins in Judea, according to Movses Khorenatsi, as they transferred to Armenia in 6th century B.C.For example, in his History of Armenia, Movses Khorenatsi traces the family origins of his sponsor prince Sahak Bagratuni to non-Armenian roots. "After the ascension of our Saviour, the Apostle Thomas, one of the twelve, sent one of the seventy-six disciples, Thaddæus, to the city of Edessa to heal Abgar and to preach the Gospel, according to the word of the Lord. Thaddæus came to the house of Tobias, a Jewish prince, who is said to have been of the race of the Pacradouni." However, the historical sources prove the existence of the Bagratuni family in the most oldest period of Armenian history and speak of them as aboriginal Armenians. The linguistic analysis also maintains that the name Bagarat probably is of Indo-European origin and stems from the Middle Persian words Bhaga (god) and Arat (plentiful, rich), i.e. literally "divine plenitude" or "god's richness". It is remarkable that Prince Bagratuni himself rejected Khorenatsi's version of the origins of his family. Exotic descents were in vogue among the early medieval Armenian aristocratic families. However, there is no evidence supporting any of these claims of descent.The legend originated in the Armenian–Georgian milieu in the latter half of the 8th century. A Hebrew provenance is first ascribed to the Armenian Bagratids (Bagratuni) by the early medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, but he in no way suggests that the family descended from King David.
NAXARAR, term given to the para-feudal, social pattern that early Armenia apparently shared with Parthian Iran, although it was preserved into the Sasanian period and beyond. The earliest stages of this system cannot be ascertained with precision given the scantiness of the surviving sources. However, its decentralized character and the linguistic evidence point to an early date near or even preceding the beginning of the Christian era. That evidence was first demonstrated in the extensive works of Emile Benveniste, who linked the majority of Iranian loanwords in classical Armenian to Middle Parthian rather than to Sasanian Pahlavi. The system’s best-known period covers the 4th to 7th centuries CE.
It is quite common in all parts of the world for members of the nobility to purport to trace their ancestry back to gods, or legendary heroes. Besides that, according to legend the Bagratuni dynasty has origins in Judea, according to Movses Khorenatsi, as they transferred to Armenia in 6th century B.C.For example, in his History of Armenia, Movses Khorenatsi traces the family origins of his sponsor prince Sahak Bagratuni to non-Armenian roots. "After the ascension of our Saviour, the Apostle Thomas, one of the twelve, sent one of the seventy-six disciples, Thaddæus, to the city of Edessa to heal Abgar and to preach the Gospel, according to the word of the Lord. Thaddæus came to the house of Tobias, a Jewish prince, who is said to have been of the race of the Pacradouni." However, the historical sources prove the existence of the Bagratuni family in the most oldest period of Armenian history and speak of them as aboriginal Armenians. The linguistic analysis also maintains that the name Bagarat probably is of Indo-European origin and stems from the Middle Persian words Bhaga (god) and Arat (plentiful, rich), i.e. literally "divine plenitude" or "god's richness". It is remarkable that Prince Bagratuni himself rejected Khorenatsi's version of the origins of his family. Exotic descents were in vogue among the early medieval Armenian aristocratic families. However, there is no evidence supporting any of these claims of descent.The legend originated in the Armenian–Georgian milieu in the latter half of the 8th century. A Hebrew provenance is first ascribed to the Armenian Bagratids (Bagratuni) by the early medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi, but he in no way suggests that the family descended from King David.
But why was this prince called Sanadroug? We will tell you: Because Abgar’s sister, Otæa, while travelling in Armenia in the winter, was assailed by a whirlwind of snow in the Gortouk mountains; the tempest separated them all, so that none of them knew where his companion had been driven. The prince’s nurse, Sanod, sister of Piourad Pacradouni, wife of Khosran Ardzrouni, having taken the royal infant, for Sanadroug was still in the cradle, laid him upon her bosom, and remained with him under the snow three days and three nights. Legend has taken possession of this circumstance: it relates that an animal, a new species, wonderful, of great whiteness, sent by the gods, guarded the child. But so far as we have been informed, this is the fact: a white dog, which was amongst the men sent in search, found the child and his nurse; the prince was therefore called Sanadroug, a name taken from his nurse’s name (and from the Armenian name, dourk, a gift), as if to signify the gift of Sanod.The Bagratuni family first emerged as nakharars, members of the hereditary nobility of Armenia, in the early 4th century.[10] The Arshakuni dynasty, which ruled Armenia from 52 to 428, granted the family heritable rights. The first Bagratuni prince identified by historian Cyril Toumanoff, Smbat I, lived at the time of the Armenian conversion to Christianity (c. 301-314).[11] Starting with Smbat, the Bagratunis held the hereditary titles of aspet, meaning "Master of the Horse" or the commander of the cavalry, and tagadir, which indicated their privilege of crowning Arshakuni kings upon their accession to the throne.[12] Their domain included the region of Sper in the Çoruh River valley of Upper Armenia, which was famous for its gold and silver, and Tayk. The medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi claimed they had an ancestor, Smbat, who came to Armenia from Judea in 6th century BC, but modern historians regard this as an invention to give a biblical origin to the family.[
Sanadroug, having ascended the throne in the twelfth year of Ardachès, king of the Persians, and having lived thirty years, died as he was hunting, from an arrow which pierced his bowels, as if in punishment of the torments which he had made his holy daughter suffer. Gheroupna, son of the scribe Apchatar, collected all these facts, happening in the time of Abgar and Sanadroug, and placed them in the archives of Edessa.
Darius also lists the territories under his rule:
Sasanian Armenia, also known as Persian Armenia and Persarmenia (Armenian: Պարսկահայաստան –Parskahayastan), may either refer to the periods in which Armenia (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭩 – Armin) was under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Empire or specifically to the parts of Armenia under its control such as after the partition of 387 when parts of western Armenia were incorporated into the Roman Empire while the rest of Armenia came under Sasanian suzerainty but maintained its existing kingdom until 428.
In 428, Armenian nobles petitioned Bahram V to depose Artaxias IV (r. 422); Bahram V (r. 420–438) abolished the Kingdom of Armenia and appointed Veh Mihr Shapur as marzban (governor of a frontier province, "margrave") of the country, which marked the start of a new era known as the Marzpanate period (Armenian: Մարզպանական Հայաստան – Marzpanakan Hayastan), a period when marzbans, nominated by the Sasanian emperor, governed eastern Armenia, as opposed to the western Byzantine Armenia which was ruled by several princes, and later governors, under Byzantine suzerainty.
Agathangelos (in Old Armenian: Ագաթանգեղոս Agatʿangełos, in Greek Ἀγαθάγγελος "bearer of good news" or angel, c. 5th century AD ) is the pseudonym of the author of a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, who died about 332.
He claims to be a secretary of Tiridates III, King of Armenia in the early 4th century, but the life was not written before the 5th century.[2] It purports to exhibit the deeds and discourses of Gregory, and has reached us in Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Syriac, Ethiopic, Latin and Arabic.
Mesrobes Mastosius; 362 – February 17, 440 AD) was an early medieval Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman and hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Armenian Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.[2] He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity.[3] He is also considered to be the creator of the Caucasian Albanian and Georgian alphabets by some scholars.
NAME CHOREN MEANING “You are the humanitarian. You are attracted to a cause or a movement whose purpose is to make a better world. You are extremely idealistic, sometimes to the point of being naive about people or methods. You have great compassion and seek to create a more humane society. You are drawn to those who suffer physically or are at the hand of injustice. You are the righter of wrongs. Your deepest intention is to transform the world. ”
In 428, Armenian nobles petitioned Bahram V to depose Artaxias IV (r. 422); Bahram V (r. 420–438) abolished the Kingdom of Armenia and appointed Veh Mihr Shapur as marzban (governor of a frontier province, "margrave") of the country, which marked the start of a new era known as the Marzpanate period (Armenian: Մարզպանական Հայաստան – Marzpanakan Hayastan), a period when marzbans, nominated by the Sasanian emperor, governed eastern Armenia, as opposed to the western Byzantine Armenia which was ruled by several princes, and later governors, under Byzantine suzerainty.
Agathangelos (in Old Armenian: Ագաթանգեղոս Agatʿangełos, in Greek Ἀγαθάγγελος "bearer of good news" or angel, c. 5th century AD ) is the pseudonym of the author of a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, who died about 332.
He claims to be a secretary of Tiridates III, King of Armenia in the early 4th century, but the life was not written before the 5th century.[2] It purports to exhibit the deeds and discourses of Gregory, and has reached us in Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Syriac, Ethiopic, Latin and Arabic.
Mesrobes Mastosius; 362 – February 17, 440 AD) was an early medieval Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman and hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Armenian Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.[2] He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity.[3] He is also considered to be the creator of the Caucasian Albanian and Georgian alphabets by some scholars.
NAME CHOREN MEANING “You are the humanitarian. You are attracted to a cause or a movement whose purpose is to make a better world. You are extremely idealistic, sometimes to the point of being naive about people or methods. You have great compassion and seek to create a more humane society. You are drawn to those who suffer physically or are at the hand of injustice. You are the righter of wrongs. Your deepest intention is to transform the world. ”
The Sabians are "between the Majus, the Jews and the Christians" but "do not have a specific religion ... that they followed and enforced", because they lived "according to their Fitrah (instinctual nature)" but. Mujahid also "Others" the tafsir reports saying that the Sabians[26] read the Zabur (Psalms),[26] worship the angels or the stars, never received a message by any prophet. The word Sabian is said to be derived from the Aramaic root related to baptism. According to Charles G. Häberl, "The cognate in Neo-Mandaic is Ṣabi 'to baptize'.
Said bin Jubayr, says that the Sabians are "between the Majus, the Jews and the Christians" but "do not have a specific religion (like the Armenians)... that they followed and enforced", because they lived "according to their Fitrah (instinctual nature)" but. they are Mogtasilah ("Mughtasila", or "self-ablutionists").Others say they worship heavenly messengers and the stars, and have never received a message by any prophet.
Mandaeism or Mandaeanism Classical Mandaic: also known as Sabianism is a Gnostic, monotheistic and ethnic religion.[1]: 4 [9]: 1 Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist.
In Mandaeism, Manda d-Hayyi or Manda ḏ-Hiia (Classical Mandaic: ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀ ࡖࡄࡉࡉࡀ, lit. the 'Gnosis of Life', 'Knowledge of Life', or 'Knower of the Life') is an uthra sent by the Great Life (Hayyi Rabbi, or the Transcendent God) as a messenger to John the Baptist. Manda d-Hayyi is considered to be the most important uthra, since he is the one bringing manda (knowledge or gnosis) to Earth (Tibil).[1]
Hayyi Rabbi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the Right Ginza, the weapons of Manda d-Hayyi are:[5]
Radiance and Light (Ziwa u Nhūra)
a great attire
the margna (staff) of Living Water (Mia Hayya)
the wreath of the Living Flame (ʿŠata Haita)
the arm or of the Great Ones
a mace (club)
a veil (or a net?)
a robe of the great ones
Hayyi Rabbi. Great Life. Other names Hayyi, First Life, Lord of Greatness (Mar d-Rabuta)
Abode World of Light
Symbol Light
Equivalents
Manichaean equivalent Father of Greatness
Gnostic equivalent Monad
In Mandaeism, Hayyi Rabbi (Classical Mandaic: romanized: Hiia Rbia, lit. 'The Great Life'), or 'The Great Living God',[1] is the supreme God from which all things emanate. He is also known as the 'The First Life', since during the creation of the material world, Yushamin emanated from Hayyi Rabbi as the "Second Life."[2] According to Qais Al-Saadi, "the principles of the Mandaean doctrine: the belief of the only one great God, Hayyi Rabbi, to whom all absolute properties belong; He created all the worlds, formed the soul through his power, and placed it by means of angels into the human body. So He created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman."[3] Mandaeans recognize God to be the eternal, creator of all, the one and only in domination who has no partner.[4]
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Hayyi Rabbi is also referred to in Mandaean scriptures as Hiia Rbia Qadmaiia ('The First Great Life').[5] Other names used are Mar d-Rabuta ('Lord of Greatness' or 'The Great Lord'), Mana Rabba ('The Great Mind'), Melka d-Nhura ('King of Light') and Hayyi Qadmaiyi ('The First Life').[6][7] Kušṭa ('Truth') is also another name for Hayyi Rabbi.
According to E. S. Drower, the name Great Mind or Great Mana refers to the "over-soul" or "over-mind", the earliest manifestation of Hayyi, from which the soul of a human might be seen as a spark or temporarily detached part.[8] In book three of the Right Ginza, Hayyi is said to have "formed Himself in the likeness of the Great Mana, from which He emerged".[9]
In prayers[edit]
Many Mandaean texts and prayers begin with the opening phrase bšumaihun ḏ-hiia rabia (Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡔࡅࡌࡀࡉࡄࡅࡍ ࡖࡄࡉࡉࡀ ࡓࡁࡉࡀ), "In the name of The Great Life" (similar to the basmala in Islam and Christian Trinitarian formula).
See also.In Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon is the "Primordial Man" also called Adam Elyon (אָדָם עֶלִיוֹן, ʾāḏām ʿelyōn, "Most High Man"), or Adam Ila'ah (אָדָם עִילָּאָה, ʾāḏām ʿīllāʾā "Supreme Man"), sometimes abbreviated as A"K (א"ק, ʾA.Q.), is the first of Four Worlds that came into being after the contraction of God's infinite light.
In Lurianic Kabbalah, the description of Adam Kadmon is anthropomorphic. Nonetheless, Adam Kadmon is divine light without vessels, i.e., pure potential. In the human psyche, Adam Kadmon corresponds to the yechidah, the collective essence of the soul.
MANICHAEISM: A portion of these Gnostic teachings, when combined with Zoroastrian mythology, furnished Mani with his particular doctrine of the original man. He even retains the Jewish designations "Adam Kadmon" (= אדם קדמון) and "Nakhash Kadmon" (= נחש קדמון), as may be seen in the Fihrist. But, according to Mani, the original man is fundamentally distinct from the first father of the human race. He is a creation of the King of Light, and is therefore endowed with five elements of the kingdom of light; whereas Adam really owes his existence to the kingdom of darkness, and only escapes belonging altogether to the number of demons through the fact that he bears the likeness of the original man in the elements of light contained within him. The Gnostic doctrine of the identity of Adam, as the original man, with the Messiah appears in Mani in his teaching of the "Redeeming Christ," who has His abode in the sun and moon, but is[21] identical with the original man. It also appears in this theory that Adam was the first of the sevenfold series of true prophets, comprising Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Zoroaster, Buddha, and Jesus. The stepping-stone from the Gnostic original man to Manichaeism was probably the older Mandaean conception, which may have exercised great influence. Of this conception, however, there remains in the later Mandaean writings little more than the expression "Gabra Ḳadmaya" (Adam Ḳadmon). Rigveda, Purusha (Sanskrit puruṣa, पुरुष "man," or "Cosmic Man") is sacrificed by the devas from the foundation of the world—his mind is the Moon, his eyes are the Sun, and his breath is the wind. He is described as having a thousand heads and a thousand feet.The Gnostic Anthrôpos, therefore, or Adamas, as it is sometimes called, is a cosmogonic element, pure mind as distinct from matter, mind conceived hypostatically as emanating from God and not yet darkened by contact with matter. This mind is considered as the reason of humanity, or humanity itself, as a personified idea, a category without corporeality, the human reason conceived as the World-Soul. The same idea, somewhat modified, occurs in Hermetic literature, especially the Poimandres.
Said bin Jubayr, says that the Sabians are "between the Majus, the Jews and the Christians" but "do not have a specific religion (like the Armenians)... that they followed and enforced", because they lived "according to their Fitrah (instinctual nature)" but. they are Mogtasilah ("Mughtasila", or "self-ablutionists").Others say they worship heavenly messengers and the stars, and have never received a message by any prophet.
Mandaeism or Mandaeanism Classical Mandaic: also known as Sabianism is a Gnostic, monotheistic and ethnic religion.[1]: 4 [9]: 1 Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist.
In Mandaeism, Manda d-Hayyi or Manda ḏ-Hiia (Classical Mandaic: ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀ ࡖࡄࡉࡉࡀ, lit. the 'Gnosis of Life', 'Knowledge of Life', or 'Knower of the Life') is an uthra sent by the Great Life (Hayyi Rabbi, or the Transcendent God) as a messenger to John the Baptist. Manda d-Hayyi is considered to be the most important uthra, since he is the one bringing manda (knowledge or gnosis) to Earth (Tibil).[1]
Hayyi Rabbi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the Right Ginza, the weapons of Manda d-Hayyi are:[5]
Radiance and Light (Ziwa u Nhūra)
a great attire
the margna (staff) of Living Water (Mia Hayya)
the wreath of the Living Flame (ʿŠata Haita)
the arm or of the Great Ones
a mace (club)
a veil (or a net?)
a robe of the great ones
Hayyi Rabbi. Great Life. Other names Hayyi, First Life, Lord of Greatness (Mar d-Rabuta)
Abode World of Light
Symbol Light
Equivalents
Manichaean equivalent Father of Greatness
Gnostic equivalent Monad
In Mandaeism, Hayyi Rabbi (Classical Mandaic: romanized: Hiia Rbia, lit. 'The Great Life'), or 'The Great Living God',[1] is the supreme God from which all things emanate. He is also known as the 'The First Life', since during the creation of the material world, Yushamin emanated from Hayyi Rabbi as the "Second Life."[2] According to Qais Al-Saadi, "the principles of the Mandaean doctrine: the belief of the only one great God, Hayyi Rabbi, to whom all absolute properties belong; He created all the worlds, formed the soul through his power, and placed it by means of angels into the human body. So He created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman."[3] Mandaeans recognize God to be the eternal, creator of all, the one and only in domination who has no partner.[4]
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Hayyi Rabbi is also referred to in Mandaean scriptures as Hiia Rbia Qadmaiia ('The First Great Life').[5] Other names used are Mar d-Rabuta ('Lord of Greatness' or 'The Great Lord'), Mana Rabba ('The Great Mind'), Melka d-Nhura ('King of Light') and Hayyi Qadmaiyi ('The First Life').[6][7] Kušṭa ('Truth') is also another name for Hayyi Rabbi.
According to E. S. Drower, the name Great Mind or Great Mana refers to the "over-soul" or "over-mind", the earliest manifestation of Hayyi, from which the soul of a human might be seen as a spark or temporarily detached part.[8] In book three of the Right Ginza, Hayyi is said to have "formed Himself in the likeness of the Great Mana, from which He emerged".[9]
In prayers[edit]
Many Mandaean texts and prayers begin with the opening phrase bšumaihun ḏ-hiia rabia (Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡔࡅࡌࡀࡉࡄࡅࡍ ࡖࡄࡉࡉࡀ ࡓࡁࡉࡀ), "In the name of The Great Life" (similar to the basmala in Islam and Christian Trinitarian formula).
See also.
In Lurianic Kabbalah, the description of Adam Kadmon is anthropomorphic. Nonetheless, Adam Kadmon is divine light without vessels, i.e., pure potential. In the human psyche, Adam Kadmon corresponds to the yechidah, the collective essence of the soul.
MANICHAEISM: A portion of these Gnostic teachings, when combined with Zoroastrian mythology, furnished Mani with his particular doctrine of the original man. He even retains the Jewish designations "Adam Kadmon" (= אדם קדמון) and "Nakhash Kadmon" (= נחש קדמון), as may be seen in the Fihrist. But, according to Mani, the original man is fundamentally distinct from the first father of the human race. He is a creation of the King of Light, and is therefore endowed with five elements of the kingdom of light; whereas Adam really owes his existence to the kingdom of darkness, and only escapes belonging altogether to the number of demons through the fact that he bears the likeness of the original man in the elements of light contained within him. The Gnostic doctrine of the identity of Adam, as the original man, with the Messiah appears in Mani in his teaching of the "Redeeming Christ," who has His abode in the sun and moon, but is[21] identical with the original man. It also appears in this theory that Adam was the first of the sevenfold series of true prophets, comprising Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Zoroaster, Buddha, and Jesus. The stepping-stone from the Gnostic original man to Manichaeism was probably the older Mandaean conception, which may have exercised great influence. Of this conception, however, there remains in the later Mandaean writings little more than the expression "Gabra Ḳadmaya" (Adam Ḳadmon). Rigveda, Purusha (Sanskrit puruṣa, पुरुष "man," or "Cosmic Man") is sacrificed by the devas from the foundation of the world—his mind is the Moon, his eyes are the Sun, and his breath is the wind. He is described as having a thousand heads and a thousand feet.The Gnostic Anthrôpos, therefore, or Adamas, as it is sometimes called, is a cosmogonic element, pure mind as distinct from matter, mind conceived hypostatically as emanating from God and not yet darkened by contact with matter. This mind is considered as the reason of humanity, or humanity itself, as a personified idea, a category without corporeality, the human reason conceived as the World-Soul. The same idea, somewhat modified, occurs in Hermetic literature, especially the Poimandres.
Absolute (philosophy)
Father of Greatness, translates to Abba d'Rabbuta in Manichaeism
Mandaean cosmology
Monad (Gnosticism)
Ultimate reality
Father of Greatness, translates to Abba d'Rabbuta in Manichaeism
Mandaean cosmology
Monad (Gnosticism)
Ultimate reality
Millennial astrology. This long-term study of the heavens is known as precessional astrology, and it is more akin to what we would now call astronomy, as it is based upon a real astronomical event known as the precession of the equinox.
Precession is a real astronomical effect that changes the dominant constellation that rises with the dawn Sun at the vernal equinox (the spring equinox) roughly every 2,140 years. It happens because the earth ‘wobbles’ gyroscopically on its axis, making the axis of the Earth rotate around the constellation of Draco (around the ecliptic pole) once every 25,680 years. But this rotation has a secondary effect, which causes the vernal equinox sunrise (the vernal point) to pass through each constellation in turn, but in a retrograde fashion to normal astrology. Therefore, the Sun takes about 2,140 years to transit each of the twelve constellations. The long 25,680 year period of time is called the Great Year.The shorter period of 2,140 years is known as the Great Month. But the constellations are not all of the same size, and so the Great Months are not all of the same duration. The established start-dates for the recent Great Months are as follows (all dates +/- 20 years or so):
Taurus 4300 BC (bulls)
Aries 1750 BC (sheep)
Pisces 10 AD (fish)
Aquarius 2550 AD (water)
If we are to discover any references to astrology within say the Bible, the first change in the constellations in which we might find that evidence happened in about 1750 BC, when Taurus (the bull) turned into Aries (the ram). Remember that this millennial movement of the Sun through the constellations is a real astronomical event, as can be seen on the following image from a planisphere, where the path of the Sun is marked in red. The numbers here are thousands of years either side of our normal year zero. As can be seen, in about 1800 – 1700 BC, the vernal equinox sunrise was moving away from Taurus (the bull) and towards Aries (the sheep).But how does all of this fit into the biblical storyline? Where does the Torah mention the vernal equinox? The first clue to biblical astrology being a reality, is that the biblical patriarchs of this very same era became known as ‘shepherds’, just as the Great Month moved from Taurus (bulls) to Aries (sheep). Poor shepherds no, and we know this because the change in terminology was both widespread and consistent throughout biblical history. We also know this because Abraham, the first of these biblical ‘shepherds’ not a nomad with a few goats. The Torah and Josephus Flavius’ accounts of this era of Abraham thus:
"And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, who numbered three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan." Gen 14:14
And what did … our forefather Abraham do? Did he avenge the insult by force of arms? Yet he had three hundred and eighteen army officers under him and an immense army under each of them. Jewish War 5:9:4
So in the biblical and historical records, Abraham had an army with 318 commanders, and if each commander was a centurion then Abraham’s army numbered 31,800. The answer is that in addition to the biblical patriarchs, the Hyksos pharaohs of Egypt were likewise known as the Shepherd Kings, and I am sure it was for the very same reason. And since Abraham was a ‘shepherd’ who controlled such a vast army some 30,000 strong, perhaps he was a Hyksos leader. Some Egyptologists have questioned whether ‘Hyksos’ does indeed mean ‘Shepherd’, and thus questioned the obvious connection between the Hyksos pharaohs and the biblical Patriarchs. The translation was originally made by Manetho, a 3rd century BC Egyptian historian, and yet we can be fairly sure that Manetho was correct because ‘Hyksos’ is spelt with the shepherd’s crook. As is the constallation aries traced in the sky.
It is hard to grasp how much our current culture has inherited from the people of that land of Sumeria, be it the wheel, the art of writing, or the units for measuring time and angles to name a few. Much fof the Sumero-Babylonian beliefs about constellations and planets have reached us intact. Astronomy, the ecliptic, planets all had a central place in Babylonian astral religion, they were observed and recorded as much for the establishment of an astrological calendrical as for the qualities and influences of the planets/gods.
The Sumeria period is dated 3500-2300
Taurus 4300 BC (bulls)
Aries 1750 BC (sheep)
Pisces 10 AD (fish)
Aquarius 2550 AD (water)
If we are to discover any references to astrology within say the Bible, the first change in the constellations in which we might find that evidence happened in about 1750 BC, when Taurus (the bull) turned into Aries (the ram). Remember that this millennial movement of the Sun through the constellations is a real astronomical event, as can be seen on the following image from a planisphere, where the path of the Sun is marked in red. The numbers here are thousands of years either side of our normal year zero. As can be seen, in about 1800 – 1700 BC, the vernal equinox sunrise was moving away from Taurus (the bull) and towards Aries (the sheep).But how does all of this fit into the biblical storyline? Where does the Torah mention the vernal equinox? The first clue to biblical astrology being a reality, is that the biblical patriarchs of this very same era became known as ‘shepherds’, just as the Great Month moved from Taurus (bulls) to Aries (sheep). Poor shepherds no, and we know this because the change in terminology was both widespread and consistent throughout biblical history. We also know this because Abraham, the first of these biblical ‘shepherds’ not a nomad with a few goats. The Torah and Josephus Flavius’ accounts of this era of Abraham thus:
"And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, who numbered three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan." Gen 14:14
And what did … our forefather Abraham do? Did he avenge the insult by force of arms? Yet he had three hundred and eighteen army officers under him and an immense army under each of them. Jewish War 5:9:4
So in the biblical and historical records, Abraham had an army with 318 commanders, and if each commander was a centurion then Abraham’s army numbered 31,800. The answer is that in addition to the biblical patriarchs, the Hyksos pharaohs of Egypt were likewise known as the Shepherd Kings, and I am sure it was for the very same reason. And since Abraham was a ‘shepherd’ who controlled such a vast army some 30,000 strong, perhaps he was a Hyksos leader. Some Egyptologists have questioned whether ‘Hyksos’ does indeed mean ‘Shepherd’, and thus questioned the obvious connection between the Hyksos pharaohs and the biblical Patriarchs. The translation was originally made by Manetho, a 3rd century BC Egyptian historian, and yet we can be fairly sure that Manetho was correct because ‘Hyksos’ is spelt with the shepherd’s crook. As is the constallation aries traced in the sky.
The Sumeria period is dated 3500-2300
from the Babylonians, not Sumerians, though we have to consider
the influence of Sumerian language and writing
Sumerian
eriod 3500–2300 BC
kkadian
eriod (Sar
on I
2275–2219) 2275–2094
Sumerian
eriod 3500–2300 BC
kkadian
eriod (Sar
on I
2275–2219) 2275–2094
Sumerian
eriod 3500–2300 BC
kkadian
eriod (Sar
on I
2275–2219) 2275–2094
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