ʿZlat
Other namesʿZlat Rabtia
AbodeWorld of Light
ConsortShishlam

In Mandaeism, ʿZlat (Classical Mandaic: ࡏࡆࡋࡀࡕ, lit. 'she wove/she span'), also Ezlat, Īzlat, or ʿZlat Rabtia ('ʿZlat the Great'), is the wife or female consort of Shishlam, a figure representing the prototypical priest or prototypical Mandaean. Hence, Zlat symbolizes the prototypical Mandaean priestly wife as the archetype of the pure bride.[1] She is described in the Mandaean priestly text The Thousand and Twelve Questions as the "Wellspring of Light."[2]

Zlat is also mentioned in Qolasta prayers 17, 105, 106, 171, and 173 (the Šumhata).[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Drower, Ethel Stephana (1960). The secret Adam, a study of Nasoraean gnosis (PDF). London UK: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Drower, Ethel S. (1960). The Thousand and Twelve Questions: A Mandaean Text (Alf Trisar Šuialia). Berlin: Akademie Verlag. p. 111.
  3. ↑ Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
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