Shitil
Shitil is a Uthra , a spirit and light being from the mythology of the Mandaeans . He is a messenger of light and a redeemed Redeemer.
In the Bible , Seth is the third son of Adam and Eve in Gen 4.25 EU . Among the Mandaeans, Seth, Mandaean Shitil, is also a son of Adam, who later became a divine being. Among the redeeming figures of the Mandaeans, Shitil, Hibil and Anosh are in first place as a triad.
In a liturgical baptismal hymn of the Mandaeans asks the soul to its purifying way through the light world of the stars of Shitil the baptism before she flies into the fire of the house, in which a child is to be born and for which it is intended.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolph, Kurt : Theogony, cosmogony and anthropogony in the Mandaean writings; an investigation into literary criticism and the history of tradition , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1965, p. 290 Note 4 books.google
- ↑ Rudolph, Kurt : The Gnosis: Essence and History of a Late Antique Religion , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005. S. 222f books.google
- ↑ Rudolph, Kurt : Die Mandäer , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1956. Volume I, p. 157, see p. 81 [1]
- ↑ Richard Reitzenstein , The Iranian Mystery of Redemption: Religious History Studies , 1921, [2]
literature
- Gerhard J. Bellinger : Knaurs Lexikon der Mythologie. 3100 keywords on the myths of all peoples from the beginning to the present. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-426-26376-9 .
- Hermann Kloss: Gnosticism and “Path of Knowledge”. Their commonality in the face of the “Word of the Cross”. A Religious Phenomenological Study. Brill, Leiden 1983, ISBN 90-04-06922-4 , p. 235 ( Journal for Religious and Spiritual History. Supplements 26), (At the same time: Berlin, Kirchl. Hochsch., Diss., 1978).
- Jaan Lahe: Gnosis and Judaism. Old Testament and Jewish Motifs in Gnostic Literature and the Problem of Origin of Gnosis. Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, Tartu 2009, ISBN 978-9949-19-074-4 , p. 36ff., ( Dissertationes Theologiae Universitatis Tartuensis 15), (Also: Tartu, Ülikool, Diss., 2009), (PDF download).