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Uthras of the Mandaeans

The cosmic beings of the Mandaeans — the followers of John the Baptist and the last surviving Gnostics, the river-baptising people of the marshes of southern Iraq and Iran. In their luminous and elaborate cosmology of the World of Light, the great <em>uthras</em> (radiant emanations) descend through the worlds. From Abatur, the weigher of souls at the gate of the underworld, to Ptahil, the craftsman who fashioned the material world, this series chronicles the cosmic powers of one of the world’s oldest and most remarkable living religions.