Dmuta
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Classical Mandaic: ࡃࡌࡅࡕࡀ, lit. 'image') or dmut is a spiritual counterpart or "mirror image" in the World of Light.[1][2] People, spirits, and places are often considered to have both earthly and heavenly counterparts (dmuta) that can dynamically interact with each other.[3]
: 37 A few examples include:
- The heavenly Adam Kasia corresponding to the earthly Adam Pagria
- The heavenly Piriawis (or "Great Jordan") corresponding to earthly yardnas (rivers)
- Abatur Rama ("Lofty Abatur") corresponding to Abatur Muzania ("Abatur of the Scales")
A dmuta dwells in the Mshunia Kushta, a section of the World of Light.[3]
Merging of the soul
A successful
Mšunia Kušṭa (similar to Plato's idea of the hyperuranion).[3]
In the Qolasta
In Qolasta prayer 43, manda (gnosis) is mentioned as having proceeded from Dmut Hiia (the dmuta of Life). Prayers 170 (the Tabahatan) and 411 in the Qolasta mention Dmut Hiia as the mother of Yushamin.[4]
Parallels
Similarly, the Qur'an (36:36, 51:49, etc.) mentions that God created everything in "pairs." Related concepts in other religions include yin and yang in Taoism, and the Yazidi belief of there being both a heavenly and earthly Lalish.
Philosophical parallels include Plato's theory of forms.[5]
See also
- Dmut Kušṭa
- Laufa
- World of Light
- Mandaean cosmology
- Image of God in Christianity
- Correspondence (theology)
- Theory of forms in Platonism
- Hyperuranion in Platonism
- Archetype
- Qareen in Islam
- Doppelgänger
- Etiäinen
- Shadow (psychology)
References
- ^ Drower, E.S. (1960). The Secret Adam - The Study of Nasoraean Gnosis (PDF). London: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Aldihisi, Sabah (2008). The story of creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba (PhD). University College London.
- ^ OCLC 65198443.
- ^ Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
- OCLC 1272858968.
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