546 MANDAEAN LITERATURE
When Ptahil lifted Adam up, I raised his bones.
When he laid his hands on him, I made him breathe
the fragrance of life.
His body filled with marrow,
and the radiance of life spoke in him.
When the radiance of life spoke in him,
he opened the eyes of his bodily torso.
When the radiance of life spoke in him,
Adakas Ziwa, the radiant Adam, rose to his place.^28MANDA DHAYYE, MESSENGER OF LIGHT
I led Adam up to his place.
I led Adam up to his place, the house of powerful life,
the house where the great life is on his throne.
I handed him over to the guardians of the treasure,
the light beings who take care of the Jordans.^29
Life thanked the light beings who brought the soul.
The great summoned me and commanded me, saying,
"Go down and shout a sublime call!
Shout sublimely so the wicked learn nothing of the soul!"
I came and found the wicked, all of them sitting there,
and while they were sitting there
I spread witchcraft and magic around the soul,
and the wicked wanted to chop the soul into tiny parts.
I saw them and I shone in my pure garments.
Before the world I glowed in a huge radiance
given me by my father.
I appeared to Ptahil Uthra, who howled and wept.
He howled and wept over what he had done.
I appeared to Ruha, the seductive mother of planets
and evil creatures,
who seduces the worlds.- Adakas is hidden Adam and Ziwa is radiance, hence "radiant Adam."
- Heavenly baptismal water.