Sabean Mandeans are considered one of the oldest religions
in the world. Sabean is from the Aramaic word “saba” which means baptized. This
is one of the basic rituals of the religion, being dipped into water to be
baptized. Mandeans is from the Aramaic “yada – ada” to know, meaning that they
are the baptized people who know about God. The following are pictures of
Mandeans celebrating their Golden Baptism Festival in the Big Zab River,
Khabat, Irbil on May 20, 2014. Photos by AFP's Safin Hamed.
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SOURCES
Salloum, Sa’ad, “A Guide to Minorities in Iraq, Memory,
Identity and Challenges,” (Baghdad and Beirut: Masarat, 2013)
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