Mandaean doubles and aerial troubles.

[David Casseres]

I haven't done my googling homework, but that sounds like something Jorge
Luis Borges would have cooked up.

On 4/11/07, Joseph T <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
> Something in ATD led me to Wiki something which led to the Mandaeans
> some weeks ago, but I can't recall what. I was unusually curious.  I
> recently wrote a column for the local paper about the suffering of
> Iraqis and it appeared on the same page as a news article about the
> troubles and history of the Mandaeans. This further piqued my interest.
> In the latest issue of Harper's there is a synopsis by Eliot
> Weinberger of some mythical ideas of this  people who lived (some
> still live) in Iraq but are being killed and driven away in the war
>
> In the Harper's article there were two things relating to ATD.
>
> They believe there have been four ages in the history of the world
> each repopulated by a single couple. This , fourth and last age, will
> be destroyed from the air.
>
> They believe that somewhere in the north, beyond the pole, is a world
> that is the double of this world, called Msunia Kusta. Every living
> Mandaean has a double there.
>
> Also of Pynchonian interest Their most sacred book the Ginza, has a
> Right and Left half. At the end of the Right, one turns the book
> upside down to read the Left. It has 7 contradictory accounts of the
> origin of the universe.
>
> They believe that ours is one of 365 universes.
>
>
>
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